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Forums - Microsoft - New Eternal Sonata and Vampire Rain demos on Live

Demo: Eternal Sonata
Content: Eternal Sonata Playable Demo
Price: Free
Availability: Canada & United States
Dash Text: [ESRB: RP (Rating Pending)] Now is your chance to play this year’s highly-anticipated RPG, Eternal Sonata, with a free demo available on Xbox Live® Marketplace.Developed for the Xbox 360TM video game and entertainment system by Tri-Crescendo and featuring the music of Chopin, Eternal Sonata delivers amazingly detailed 3D graphics, a captivating storyline with over 30 hours of gameplay and an innovative action battle system. Download the demo today and explore the Path to Tenuto, Tenuto Village and Heaven’s Mirror Forest with Polka, Allegretto and Beat. Get a glimpse of the world that is Eternal Sonata.
Size: 584.12 MB
Demo: Vampire Rain
Content: Vampire Rain Demo
Price: Free
Availability: Not available in Germany, Korea, Taiwan or the United States
Dash Text: [ESRB: M (MATURE) Blood and Gore, Intense Violence] Vampire Rain combines stealth, survival horror and shooter aspects of your favorite games as you lead a black ops unit to secretly eliminate the deadliest supernatural enemies you’ve ever faced. Nightwalkers are intensely fast with super agility and they are converting humans to their kind at an alarming rate. Traverse all areas of an eerie and rain soaked city by moving across rooftops and through back alleys to avoid detection and enable the best strategic use of your weapons. It’s up to you to protect the innocent and find the evil source of this invasion before it’s too late. Demo includes 2 full missions and 2 experience trials along with an Xbox Live multiplayer experience unlike any other where you can experience the power of a Nightwalker first hand.
Size: 844.71 MB


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Nice!

I'm gonna download the ES demo sometime soon then - I've been excited for a demo.

Hopefully the demo is well recieved, and starts to garner more attention to the game - as it deserves.



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I'll be all over ES (when my 360 comes back)



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I just finished playing the ES demo, I liked it a lot more than Blue Dragon. It plays different than most RPG's combat wise, and I like the more action oriented approach, there's actually a good bit of depth to it, and apparently the combat will change as your team's level progresses. The game looks great too.

I don't plan on even DL'ing Vampire Rain, the game just doesn't appeal to me.

I think Stranglehold demo is supposed to come out tomorrow (Wednesday), that's a game I've been waiting for a while to play, hope it's as good as it looks.



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I dislike JRPGs and even I thought the Eternal Sonata demo was decent (whereas I got bored with Blue Dragon after about 15 minutes).

I will DL the Vampire Rain demo for the same reason as the Hour of Victory demo: just to have played one of the lousiest 360 games ever made, even if only for a few minutes. If only there were demos for Pimp My Ride and Bomberman Act Zero, so I could say I have played every sub-40 score 360 game!



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I gotta tell my friend to download this (Eternal Sonata), so I can try it. It looks stunning.



It IS stunning.

It's a phenominal demo. Like Blue Dragon, ES has gone from a "most likely buy 1st week" to "must...preorder....now".

The demo is more well rounded than Blue Dragon. It features a small useless town, hidden treasure, all the combat goodies, and one boss.

To me, for some reason, I got a "Super Mario RPG" meets "Kingdom Hearts" vibe from the game. The game is incredibly vibrant, ala SMRPG. The combat system is phenominal. By far, one of the coolest battle systems for a game in a long time.

The greatest part? It's 4 player. My girlfriend and I hacked & slashed through the demo with glee. It was just too much fun. She decided that I should buy the game, and invite her little niece over to play 3p co-op through the game.

More than likely, her niece will get an Xbox 360 for this game.

The only real weakness from the demo (and my impression from the game is) that the camera kinda sucks. You can't move it: it's very linear, and very difficult to see the enemies in battle. Outside of that, fantastic.

Go play the demo! Now! If your a fan of RPGs, Kingdom Hearts, or old Paper Mario/SMRPG games, it's a must-try.

Either way, you can get a good 1hr from the demo if you wanted to do everything. Or beat it in 5 minutes. It wasn't quite as hard (imo) as Blue Dragon's demo. The attacks are insanely powerful, and most enemies are rather weak if you know what your doing. The active guard system can hamper most enemies attacks pretty handily (and likewise, alot can chain together defends to totally neutralize your attacks).

The cutscenes for your special attacks are just freaking sweet - nothing like chaining together a combo for 5000 damage at the starting of a game.



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

Vampire Rain is a travesty...
It's vampires... and rain... and little else beside it.