Atlus USA reveals Summon Night: Twin Age for DS

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Mar 18th 2008 at 4:00PM }

Not to be confused with Summons Night, the vampiric lawyer adventure, Summon Night: Twin Age has finally escaped Japan with the aid of increasingly prolific publisher, Atlus USA. The DS action RPG tasks players with guiding summoner Reiha and summonee (?) Aldo through a "richly woven tale of adventure," one complete with multiple endings, sidequests and improbably named garments.

Much like The Legend of Zelda: Phourglass, the "action" in this action RPG is entirely initiated by the little stick thingy that came with your DS, with attacking, healing, using items and navigating all done through the power of touch. Summon Night: Twin Age touches down on DS May 20th.

Gallery: Summon Night: Twin Age (DS)

Tags: Atlus, Atlus-USA, AtlusUSA, Summon-Night, Summon-Night-Twin-Age

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fernando Rocker @ Mar 18th 2008 4:22PM

The Nintendo DS is now like the PS2... is the system to get if you want RPG's.

No doubt about it.

Fernando Rocker @ Mar 18th 2008 4:30PM

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

SoulBlade @ Mar 18th 2008 4:59PM

Don't forget a new Golden Sun.

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force) @ Mar 18th 2008 5:10PM

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....

deaftly (Brawl - 1075-0467-4222) @ Mar 18th 2008 5:28PM

This is how Fernando games

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

ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Mar 18th 2008 11:00PM

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

Roger @ Mar 18th 2008 4:50PM

is that arno grown up? it kinda looks like it...anyway, it really sucks since i sold my DS a while ago...but why did they change the battle system?! thats so dumb!

Magetto @ Mar 18th 2008 5:01PM

But will it have lesbian summons like the first game?

ScallionN @ Mar 19th 2008 5:02PM

That was my concern as well

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force) @ Mar 18th 2008 5:06PM

Well, liked the GBA iterations... not sure how I'll dig the party system though. I hate babysitting AI, especially in an action RPG.

Feigr @ Mar 18th 2008 6:00PM

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.

OhJustSomeRandomGuy @ Mar 18th 2008 6:07PM

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.

Feigr @ Mar 18th 2008 6:15PM

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!