DS Daily: Let's talk Blood of Bahamut

Pretty good, actually. According to this article (http://www.siliconera.com/2008/09/04/is-square-enix-working-on-a-bahamut-lagoon-remake/), Blood of Bahamut has already been trademarked (at least in the U.S.), and, unlike Namco-Bandai who trademarks their properties in the U.S. out of paranoia with no real intent to release them, a Square-Enix trademark generally means we're getting the game. For instance, we knew the subtitles of DQ IV-VI a good while before they were ever even officially announced for NA.

Wait...how is it that people being excited over this game based on the few scenes shown in the trailer is suddenly more wrong than it's been for any other game trailer that does the same thing? I'm not defending the game just because of my own interest in it, but I still have to say that there's nothing unusual about the Blood of Bahamut trailer as far as game trailers go. In fact, it's more informative than a lot of them in that it actually shows gameplay. To my knowledge, when the first bits of information and media on a game really grab people by the face, never has it been gamer tendency to hold back anticipation until we have in-depth previews, know the ins and outs of game mechanics, reviews are available, etc. We all haven't all thrown our judgment away en masse over a piece of concept art.

I know it makes me sound like a hypocrite after ranting so much about the My World, My Way trailer, but that wasn't so much about the content as it was what the content said about Atlus' reasons for localizing the game.

And I say this in all good-naturedness. I know how awful it can be when trying to detect tone on the internet, and far would it be for me to be negative over something so inconsequential as a game trailer. Just imagine whatever friendly emoticon suits you at the end of the above post, eh heh.