New games this week: Tales of Vesperia edition

by Justin McElroy on Aug 25th 2008 8:00AM

We had a little trouble picking our favorite release this week. Though Mario Super Sluggers made a compelling case, in the end, we had to go with the little game that helped the 360 rise, phoenix-like from the ashes in Japan (before, you know, it dug right back in to those comfy ashes the following week): Tales of Vesperia.

Portable players get some good news this week too with the handheld release of N+. Check the full list right after the break.

Tales of Vesperia

Xbox 360:

Tales of Vesperia
Tiger Woods 09

XBLA:

Castle Crashers

PS3:

Disgaea 3: Absense of Justice
Tiger Woods 09
Ferrari Challenge
Vampire Rain: Altered Species

Nintendo Wii:

Mario Super Sluggers
Tiger Woods 09 All Play
Freddy Fish: Kelp Seed Mystery
Rebel Raiders
Pajama Sam in Don't Fear the Dark
Spy Fox in Dry Cereal
Ferrari Challenge

PS2:

Tiger Woods 09
Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli
DT Carnage
Shining Dragon

PSP:

Tiger Woods 09
N+
Fading Shadows
Pilot Academy

Nintendo DS:

MLB Power Pros 2008
Commando Steel Disaster
Digimon World Championship
Picto Image
Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness
The Quest Trio
From the Abyss
The Sims 2: Apartment Pets
N+
Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli
My Chinese Coach
Time Hollow

PC:

Call of Duty 4: Game of the Year Edition
Future U: The SAT Prep
Adventure Anthology
Murder in the Abbey
The Sims 2 Apartment Life
GTR Evolution
Flat Out: Head On

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Tags: DS, new-games, newgames, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, tales-of-vesperia, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (42)

Looking forward to Vesperia. Should be great. Super Sluggers looks like just another Mario sports title. Fun but unremarkable.

I guess it's Castle Crashers and N+ for NDSP for me.

I want Tales, but I finally purchased Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata, and Lost Odyssey for Holiday / Game Release downtime, and... I'm already in over my head. This, and Infinite Undiscovery, will definitely have to wait until the Spring.

Ugh, Disgaea 3 too? Good grief, that'll be a next year for me too. That is if I can finish all this mess before Persona 4.

12-15 hour RPGs FTW. Fable II, where are you?

yeah, I have a similar backlog of rpg's...I don't mind holding off purchasing single player games--something you can take your time with and not worrying whether people will be playing on xbl or psn a year from now (CoD4/Halo3/Burnout:Paradise/etc).

Am debating on CastleCrashers this week--still have some leftover MS points from Target's sale the other week.

For me is Castle Crashers and I'm still waiting for Gears 2 and silent hill 5 although I could check Tales of Vesperia if I finish Oblivion in time.

forget Tales of Vesperia, I'm excited for all of those Humongous Entertainment ScummVM point an click adventure games on the Wii.

Believe it or not, but I thought the Tiger Woods 09 demo was pretty fun.

I laughed so hard at this game. Next time when your on the green, purposly hit the ball away from the hole a couple of times and watch how mad the guy gets. Its super funny.

I've been trying to bean the bystanders in game, but to no avail. :\

I've beaned a couple of spectators. The react to getting hit and double over etc. Also befor swinging, some of the spectators try waving you off and point towards the hole.

good times.

You know what the biggest seller is gonna be on that list though?

The freakin' Sims -_-

If you mean in the US, then yes. I guess otherwise that we're rooting for more 360s to hit Japan so it can sell more Vesperia.

I have to buy [Sims] Apartment Life for my wife this week, sort of as a apology note for spending money on a Ps3 lately. =D

man... still trying to finish up lost odyssey and now we've got disgaea 3 and tales coming out... then infinite undiscovery coming afterwards too.

i'll probably get them all, but damn, what a rpg overload fall/winter's gonna be (with last remnant, eternal sonata for ps3 and fable 2 coming out too).

Yeah, I have a backlog of JRPG's right now, so I have to hold off on this one.

Now, here's the pick - Vampire Rain! A+

No, I'm kidding. I tried that on the 360 this weekend and wtf were they thinking? Its like they had a mission to make the least fun game they could.

Wow, just in one week............

Tales of Vesperia
Castle Crashers
Disgaea 3

Like I have said before: Its a great time to be a gamer.

Oh Pajama Sam, haven't you ever heard of the Vashta Nerada. The dark is one of the scariest places EVER.

These companies have no regard for gamers that own all three consoles and both handhelds. Give us some time to catch up, you bastards!

I hope Vesperia goes the standard direction for Xbox exclusive RPGs and bombs. (Not because it's exclusivity, simply because the game is utter garbage! Most overhyped POS of the year. Disgaea 3 is a pretty close runner up though, with its PS2 graphics.)

I can't wait for Infinite Undiscovery next week though. I hope it actually makes it into stores in a reasonable amount of time. Square-Enix is useless when it comes to putting shit on shelves on time.

How is it garbage? And overhyped? By who? The game is barely a blip outside of Japan. And Disgaea is bad because it has poor graphics?
Don't be a tool.

so it ok for vesperia to bomb because its a xbox rpg, but Infinite Undiscovery is immune to it because you want it?
Fail -1

Tales of Vesperia and Super Mario Sluggers for me this week.

Probably N+ for the DS, depending on the price and reviews.

Agh, first tales game I can't get (no 360)...

Maybe I'm just old, but WTF is up with these Wii releases? Pajama Sam? Dry Cereal? Freddy Fish: Kelp Seed?!?!?!?

I'm used to skimming over the Wii releases 'cause there hasn't been anything that's interested me in a long time. But then I read your comment and said to myself "no way, he's gotta be joking; those aren't REAL games" and then I scrolled up and saw the Wii list and...

...well, ok then. *hmph* Umm...yeeeahh. =S

MC DDD

Same thing I say every fricken week. It's ridiculous...

Holy crap, even after reading your reply I didn't believe that those were real games, until I also scrolled up and took a look.

Add me to the list of people that thought MC was joking. Pretty absurd.

What's bad is that a Spongebob title in there would have been a AAA title.

funny guys...real funny, i almost believed you too....HOLY SH-

It's like a train wreck... I have to sell my Wii... Soon... Very soon...

I guess we all have to hold on to Madworld,I haven't bought a Wii game in months now and the thing just there collecting dust.

Maybe if I had a Wifi connection at least I could be playing Megaman 2.

Right. Because Wii owners have to buy them

Too bad most of the people who might have liked this game will never play this game, while 95% of 360 owners will never buy this game.
It is a bit funny, when you think of all those comments at the beginning of the year about how FF and MGS should go multi-platform to boost sales, but all facts indicate that any RPG or non-shooter game MUST be on the PS3 to sell well, and developers of JRPGs or story-driven games might as well ignore the 360.
I wonder what the people at Mistwalker think of their decision to go 360-exclusive now, with both their games, especially the expensively made Lost odyssey, so totally trashed.

Yeah, because Mass Effect and Oblivion sold like total garbage. Oh wait, no they didn't.

But the funniest part about your post:

If you take the top 10 best selling games from each console...

Number of shooters in that list on the 360: 3
Number of shooters in that list on the PS3: 3

And that's NOT counting Uncharted as a shooter, which is questionable at best. Count that one as a shooter, and we're looking at a HIGHER percentage of the top 10 best selling PS3 games being shooters than on the 360.

Whoops.

Ohhh you got owned :\

“story-driven games might as well ignore the 360.”

I don't what to say here but most of the games I bought for my x360 are Story Driven but yeah almost nobody played The Darkness back in the day and it was flippin good.

About RPG's well to be honest I really can't play long RPGs now since I have work and now my Studies and Jrpgs have this tendency of being long due random encounters and pretty much grinding also that JRPGs are not my cup of tea.

Yet Oblivion did sell well since most of my friends and a lot of guys in the xlive have it. I still have to finish it though.

Damn this game looks good is there any chance of it coming to PS3???

Fall is the new winter.

"(before, you know, it dug right back in to those comfy ashes the following week)"

You know, you guys should read your own articles more often. You might start with the one where you talk about how the 360 is out of stock in Japan.

It seems that the writers at Joystiq understand economics less than John McCain.

Castle Crashers for me for sure. Maybe Tales after I finally get around to checking out the demo. My RPG backlog is still pretty bad though:

Wild ARMs 5
Odin Sphere
Persona 3: FES
Knights of the Old Republic (found it used!)

AND I have to make time to play TF2, go to work, study for class...oh boy...

castle crashers for me yayyy finallyyyy

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