Blood of Bahamut DS debut trailer

You didn't know? Any game with big enemies is now a SoTC knockoff.

That looked awful, though I can't say I'm surprised. Maybe if it was a 360/ps3 game it would have looked and played better, but the gameplay looks extremely shallow.

I admit that there's a rash of people assuming that big enemies=SotC knockoff, but the design of the giant, and even its little glowing blue weak points, were incredibly reminiscent of Shadow of the Colossus. But what do I know, this was just a trailer.

Oh, what a surprise. tmac brings up the 360/ps3.

No but nimblewick you don't understand. If it was released on the PS3/360 this game would've cured cancer and ended poverty. But alas, it's being released on a Nintendo system so clearly there's going to be 6 more weeks of winter or something.

It is fun watching the definition of "hardcore game" shrink to a narrower and narrower classification

No one said anything about it being a hardcore or casual game. I just don't think anyone who's obviously not a nintendo fanboy could look at that game and not see how much wasted potential there is by releasing it on hardware that's around 10 years old (in terms of looks).

The problems also stretch into terms of scale, as that's not a very big monster seeing as the little guy isn't far from the top of his hand when it hits the ground. What's the point of a game like this when the monster's kinda small?

I've also heard that this uses some form of multiplayer. I'm sure I don't have to explain how there's wasted potential there.

I could go on and on but I'm sure you all get the picture. I know they're only releasing it on the ds because they're petrified of taking any sort of risk at all but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be called out.

Well... The overall design of the enemy is one they've had kicking around for years. Alexander, a summon featured in several final fantasy games. google some screen shots of FF9s alexander (the last time he was featured prominently) basically identical, minus the mountain anyway.

If nothing else this is square enix saying, "hey we have big monsters. I bet we could do that too."

@whichever idiot

we are seriously comparing DS games with PS3/60 now? It's bad enough when people do that with Wii games but... wow...

what's next - complaints that Super Pro Anagrams Plus (for all Java-enabled mobile phones!) isn't a PS3/60 game?

so fill me in, is Squenix not allowed to make *any* DS/PSP game now? Or are they allowed to make handheld games just as long as the graphics are 2D or something? What are the rules here?

seriously they are making loads of PS3/60 games, so if they make a few handheld games too - deal with it.

Oh screw you tmac you fool. You're judging the gameplay and what the game is gonna be like from a minute long montage?

OBVIOUSLY any game could be recreated better on a home console. Well done for making yourself look like an idiot by pointing that out as if it was something only you had realised!

Everytime you open your mouth you look like more of a prick. This is a DS GAME and not a 360/PS3 GAME. So what the hells the point in comparing to a home console game? Moron.

if we are going to start making stupid comparisons, then how about:

why wasn't it released on PC to run only on 4gb systems with the latest graphics cards... just think of all the wasted potential by releasing it on DS/PSP/Wii/360/PS3 when they could have had it running in 2560x1600 realHD(tm)!!

/facepalm

It seems to me that a handheld is not really the place to experiment with "massive scale" games. Epic giant bosses work better on a full-sized screen.

The combat doesn't though, and that was a big part of Golden Sun, esp. Djinn and super summons.