| Mail |

You might also like: WoW Insider, Massively, and more

More Sites You Might Like

/ Register

Joystiq

Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow coming to DS in Spring 2010

by Ludwig Kietzmann on Oct 29th 2009 2:30PM

If you've been dying to march Akira Toriyama-designed characters through fantasy landscapes and monster-infested dungeons, you'll be saddened to hear that Dragon Quest IX has yet to be announced for North American release. As if sensing your oddly specific yearning, D3Publisher has stepped in with a US debut for Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow.

Dubbed Blue Dragon: Ikai no Kyojuu in Japan (and published by Namco Bandai, which owns the majority of D3Publisher), the second DS entry in the Mistwalker's role-playing franchise stars a new protagonist, with gender, facial features and clothing determined by your input. Awakened Shadow is set two years after the events of the Xbox 360 game and finds Shu and the gang returning to Blue Dragon's "contemporary" RPG gameplay. Expect to upgrade weaponry, tactically change shadows and skip every scene featuring Marumaro.

Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow is scheduled for release in Spring 2010.

Source

Tags: akira-toriyama, blue-dragon, blue-dragon-awakened-shadow, d3, d3publisher, DS, mistwalker, Nintendo, release-date

Reader Comments (26)

I never played the other Blue Dragon games, but I'll take a look @ this one.

You don't know what you're missing.

I tried playing it, but found it INCREDIBLY boring, couldn't stand playing more than a couple of hours. Maybe I'll give it a try later, I read in some sites it gets better after the first disc, but a whole disc of boredom is not exactly something to look forward to :T

Welcome to Mediocre Town, population Blue Dragon. The voice acting is physically painful to listen to.

Which voice acting would you say is worse? This, Oblivion, or FO3?

Secret option D: All of the above.

Fallout 3 had better voice acting than Oblivion. At least in Fallout, the beggars didn't suddenly sound like a king when asked something.

Nathan - I do agree w/ you there. FO3 does have much better voice acting. It is amusing how in Oblivion the beggar goes from "Can you spare a coin?" to sounding like a king as you said.

yea i liked the first one on 360. actually i haven't finished yet but it's ok when u get deep into it. it is pretty generic though so i could understand someone getting bored with it. typical turn based JRPG really.

I wasnt a fan of the first ds blue dragon game. Hope this one is better.

Only 360. Mistwalker wants nothing to do with PS3. They've said it many times before.

^ Did they really?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHjFxJVeCQs

I think they are 360 exclusive. mind you, this was in the good old days of 2006 when, as per 360 owners, FF was crap and Mistwalker with its collection of superstar RPG developers was going to dethrone FF. After the dreadful sales of Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon (both sold less than half that of commercial "failures" such as LBP and Killzone 2), they may change their tune and develop for a system where gamers play something other than crap generic shooters

Yep, and that's Teen Goku right to the left of him.

Microsoft has a bit of money in Mystwalker, so seeing a Mystwalker game on the PS3 might happen, but not any time soon. Also, Blue Dragon is a Microsoft IP, so that's a franchise that's never going to be on a Sony system.

What I REALLY want to see from Mystwalker is a new Lost Odyssey game... I'd love them to build that franchise over the Blue Dragon games. Lost Odyssey is one of the best games I've played this generation and my personal favorite JRPG ever.

And Tai form Digimon far left.

Those games didn't sell well because they were both tremendously average, not because 360 fans don't like RPG's.

You know, I kind of feel bad for lumping Lost Odyssey in with Blue Dragon. Lost Odyssey was actually a pretty good game. I think it just came out at a time when the 360 didn't yet have a reputation for having anything other than shooters, leading to low public knowledge of it. They should have advertised more, probably.

Blue Dragon, on the other hard... Bleh....

That's what SHE said.

Microsoft owns the Blue Dragon IP, so it can technically be on anything Microsoft wants, buuuut I somehow do not see them putting it on the PlayStation 3.

I would really love a new Xbox 360 Blue Dragon though, the series has a lot of potential IMO, the only thing that held back the first game was because Artoon cannot develop their way out of ... Something that is easy to develop out of.

Totally. Would be better if all the guys had HUEG MUSCELES and had guns and all the girls had HUEGE Tits. That would make it mature.

Akira Toriyama is a fucking hack.

Meh to all the hate. I enjoyed Blue Dragon and Blue Dragon Plus. They weren't amazing or anything, but they were solid titles nonetheless. I'll pick this one up.

I hope Mistwalker does a new 360 RPG like Lost Odyssey, though, or perhaps a sequel.

I liked Marumaro.

There. I said it.

Sadly Akira Toriyama hasn't designed a character in like 20 years now. These are just chibi rehashes of Dragon Ball Z characters with a few palette and head swaps.

That's strange, if I remember correctly he made (drew up) another manga about some demon boy a good number of years back.

...I'm pretty sure that wasn't 20 years ago...

Considering the sheer lack of variety in the character designs in the one shot above, yes, Akira Toriyama is a fucking hack. I mean seriously, is this for Blue Dragon or Sandlands or even DraQue? Does HE even fucking know anymore? I bet when working on this game he has a simple formula to riddle this shit out.

"Is the main icon character a slime?"
"No, then is the main icon a bubble tank?"
"Damn, wrong again. Is it a pile of crap holding a spear?
"Yes, okay... I'm working on Blue Dragon right now. All right."

Sorry, you must be logged in to leave a comment.

Breaking News

Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow coming to DS in Spring 2010

Reader Comments (26)

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 2:34PM Gate Stormer said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 2:43PM I AM IRONHIDE said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 3:09PM vmenge said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 3:15PM Jerk Face said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 3:23PM Gate Stormer said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 3:29PM I AM IRONHIDE said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 4:50PM NathanDTS said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 4:55PM Gate Stormer said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 7:34PM SoCoolCurt said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 2:37PM Rhamsey said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 2:41PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 2:43PM darkinchworm said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 2:51PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 2:52PM I AM IRONHIDE said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 2:53PM masterbedgood said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 2:55PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 3:17PM Jerk Face said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 3:21PM Jerk Face said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 3:53PM Sega Uranus said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 3:53PM Sega Uranus said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 4:50PM Vegeta has a ps3 said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 4:54PM KungFuChaosNinja said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 5:56PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 6:01PM Twist said

Posted: Oct 30th 2009 3:42AM blahblah55 said

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 6:19PM SheppyReturns said

Info

Description

MSRP

Release Date

Genre

Developer

Publisher

Rating

Breaking News

Double Fine returning to its adventure game roots with Kickstarter project [update: 315K down!]

Featured Stories

Portabliss: Time Ducks (iOS)

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning review: A tempting fate

Portabliss: Sticky Bees (iOS)

The most popular postsin the last 7 days

Engadget

TUAW

Massively

WoW

The most popular posts
in the last 7 days