Atlus USA reveals Summon Night: Twin Age for DS

Next RPG's: Looking forward to this game(Atlus is great), Soma Bringer, Sonic Chronicles, The World Ends with You, Disgaea, Blue Dragon, and of course Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts DS and the Valkirye Profile game.

By the way, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles is in stores now... I bought it last Sunday with the Toy's R Us promotion... excellent game.

I hope that now that Nintendo bought Monolith Soft, maybe they can make a Xenosaga game for the DS or Wii =p

Don't forget a new Golden Sun.

You tried to convince me of this the other night on MSN, not buying it. Here's why....

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-14-71-iu-49-en.html

Now majority of those were meh. But it was a ton of RPGs, still is in fact. DS is shaping up like that, they are getting a sudden influx of RPGs but considering the horrid track record thus far and how most RPGs on the system is about as worthwhile as a groinal headbutt from a lucha libre, I'm not going to get on the "hooray! More RPGs!" bandwagon.

They need to up the quality before the quantity. I;m still waiting for my apology for Deep Labyrinth....

This is how Fernando games

http://aycu28.webshots.com/image/22627/2006133764412147200_rs.jpg

I'll have to try to get Crystal Chronicles for the DS: it looks amazing.

That was my concern as well

I agree. What is it with japanese RPGs always having parties? Why not a jRPG where you play as one character and one character alone. Works fine in western RPGs like the masterpieces Fallout 1 & 2. Especially in action RPGs it would be fine with one character.

Um, Fallout 1 and 2 both had party systems. You didn't need to take people along, but you got them as parts of major quests. (Oh, how quickly thou art forgotten, Dogmeat.)

I'd also point out that the first RPG, Dungeons & Dragons, was built for party systems, so it's not a Japanese thing at all.

I never took any AI character along with me in Fallout, I chose not to because I prefer to play as one character and I didn't see any benefit to having to babysit an AI retard.

And yes D&D was made to be played as a group since it each person controlled one character with a DM leading. Much like playing instances in WoW, but without the DM. The problem is when the AI controls the characters, or when games introduce far too many characters. Games where you can have 4 characters in a party often have loads more to choose from at any one time, making it confusing and overwhelming. Many later FF games have this problem.

As long as the battles are turn-based and you only have as many characters in the game as the party allows I'm fine with it. But AI controlled characters in an action RPG is just so unnecessary!