The 4 Most visually impressive titles on the Wii/DS (releasing this year)

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naznatips said:

Li Mu Bai said:

tabsina said:
I also would put No More Heroes above that of RE: UC, but thats just how i see it

Just curious: what is ASH for DS? I'd google it, but, well, I can't be bothered :P

Go here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=177742

Mistwalkers Studio 1st game independent of MS's funding. Hironobu Sakaguchi of FF fame is producing, Nintendo is publishing, Sakimoto soundtrack. A translation of the gameplay mechanics by duckroll:

- The game is supposed to be more realistic and serious, hence the requirement for pre-rendered movies, sprites, and voice.

- The game's theme and tone are very different from Blue Dragon.

- It's a mix of RPG commands and Simulation RPG strategy maps. You form teams of up to 3 characters with a leader, and it's represented as a single unit on the map. You can have up to 5 teams at the same time later.

- When you engage enemies on the battlefield, instead of a one-to-one attack like in a normal strategy game, it switches to a team battle encounter like a RPG, menu driven.

- As it is a strategy RPG, everything is governed by Action Points. AP is shared between an entire team, not individual characters.

- There are two types of characters - main characters and ash warriors. Only main characters who are actual living beings and story characters can be team leaders.

- Ash warriors are considered as troops in your army which can level up and gain skills. When you're satisfied with their development you can then absorb them into a main character to transfer the powers. Absorbed ash warriors are lost forever.

- First 2 Gigabit DS rom. They really need the space.

- Like any other strategy RPG, there will be field skills that you can use on the battlefield itself, as well as support magic that allows one team to boost the stats of another team, etc.

Sounds epic.

Yeah it looks really interesting, although I feel I should point out DQIX actually uses 2 2GB DS cards.  http://ds.advancedmn.com/images/content/misc/dragonquest9-2carts.jpg making it the largest DS game as far as space used by quite a lot.  I'm not sure which one will be released first though (both are TBA 2007 in Japan).

Rumour reporter.com said many a times that the 2-carts rumour was BS. And the developers were once asked that very question and said that DQIX will fit on one DS cart.