Hilarious. I LOL'ed.

How about using google instead of wasting our time with pointless threads ?

I think the better translation is Second Country.

If they are playing of the success of the movies from Studio Gibli, I think that's a mistake. Most of those movies are nice to watch for 2 hours, I don't think I can sit there it try to finish a kid's story for more than that. Some of you may flame me for this, but when I play video games, and I find myself questioning the rational taught of the characters, their actions, vague plot, or anything that doesn't seem very well tied together, it sort of annoys me.

The anime industry in Japan right now has killed my love for the genre. I used to love the creative freedom and wonderful story plots in the past. Now I can only see cookie cutter character designs & plots that they dish out as a business model. I can almost compare it to the first person shooter video game genre, and how the industry keeps pumping out more of the same formula for profits.

I don't really know how entertaining the story/gameplay of this video game will be, but I'm skeptical it will have a deep story that will fully engage a 32 year old man--me. I'll download the demo and see if my low expectations bear fruit or not. Either way, it's a win, win.

You should just get yourself a PS3 already. :) No shame in playing non-Nintendo consoles.

I'm not going to get myself a PS3 as we already have one in my house, it's my brother's. (That and I have no money currently. It's not like I have a job...)

The one time I bought a PS3 game (FFXIII) I never finished because my brother is jerk (most of the time) and never let me play even though he said he would... So yeah. That is mah story.

You may be right. I heard about both versions at the same time and this was before the DS version was launched. In any case it's more correct to consider this a timed exclusive sort of thing rather than a remake.

Demo was all right. I'm not a big fan of text heavy dialogue. I realise it's kind of a tradition thing, but really it's a throwback to a time when there wasn't space on cartriges / discs to include a lot of voice data as well as all the other essential stuff. I'm not sure the demo really gives the best feel for the game because it didn't give me a sense of the scale and depth of the world and the story.

I think you're right.

They said they are working on a "console" version, but didn't specify which until later (most thought it'll be a Wii game at that time)

One of the greatest games in this whole Generation. - The Atmosphere,the art style,the graphics,the music(close your eyes and listen to it) and the somehow Pokemon like battlesystem.
Had a lot of fun with the Japanese Version - One of the few games i did take my time for cause it had the good old vibe a great game has to have.
Of course its a PS3 Exclusive.

Let me google that for you.

HAHA finally!! somebody laughed at my joke! :P