Marvelous Entertainment is doing a great jop fulfilling the gap for JRPGs for Wii and DS, like Atlus and Bandai/Namco great opportunity for small studios to get over the giant hype that surrounds Square-Enix and the only hyped RPG their are making Final Fantasy franchise.
My opinion on the matter is that the stagnation the genre has been suffering for years is because the majority of western gamers are filled up with RPGs that plays,looks like and has the felling of Square-Enix games. I believe with this generation we will see a lot of new experiences on the Wii from JRPGs form new studios on the mainstream market like Epoch,Atlus,Grasshoppers,Sega(not new but with fresh ideas).
Marvelous has already realesed on the DS fresh ideas on TRPG like Luminus Arc,Atlus also with Rondo of Swords other games like Etrian Odyssey,Baroque(remake).
List of GOOD JRPGs thus far and new IP(the most important)
Rondo of Swords(Atlus) DS
Baroque(Altus) Wii,PS2
Etrian Odyssey(Nintendo,Atlus) DS
Contact(Marvelous Interactive) DS
Luminus Arc(Marvelous Interactive) DS
Rune Factory a Fantasy Harvest Moon(Marvelous Interactive) DS
Lunar Knights(Konami) DS
Magical Starsign(Nintendo) DS
Children of Mana(Nintendo,Square-Enix) DS not new IP but great game and new mana project
Inazuna Eleven(Square-Enix) DS
Soma Bringer(Nintendo) DS
Tales of Innocence(Bandai-Namco) DS
Tales of Symphonia Dawn of a new World(Bandai-Namco)Wii
Glory of Hercules:Proof of Spirit(Nintendo) DS
Sonic Chronicles:The Dark Brotherhood(Sega) DS
World Destruction(Sega) DS
Knights in the Nightmere(Atlus) DS
The World ends With You(Square-Enix)
Things to come new IPs
Sigma Harmonix(Square-Enix) DS
RIZ ZOAWD(Marvelous Interactive) DS
Winds of Nostalgia(Tecmo) DS
Avalon Code(Marvelous Interactive) DS
Infinite Space(Sega) DS
Phantasy Star 0(Sega) DS
7th Dragon(Sega) DS
Ninokuni:the new World(Level5) DS MUST HAVE
Little King Story(Marvelous Interactive) Wii
Rune Factory Frontier(Marvelous Interactive) Wii
Arc Rise Fantasia(Marvelous Interactive) Wii
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles the Crystal Bearers(Square-Enix)
Inazuna Eleven Break(Level5) Wii probably
Kizuna(Jaleco)
Murasama the Demon Blade(Marvelous Interactive) Vanillaware 2D MUST HAVE
and we still have time for new announcements TGS,2nd October Nintendo Events.
Thats a heck of a unique IPs for the Nintendo systems. Now we must find time to play them and the most important money to buy them.....







