[DS] Blood of Bahamut -A Square Enix RPG with Shadow of the Colossus inspired battles
 

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Going by the screenshots I'm amazed at what Square is doing with the DS four years into its lifetime. It looks like the bosses are 3D, which makes it even more surprising.

I say you guys should probably keep an eye on this one, especially because it doesn't have Final Fantasy anywhere in the title.

Shadow of the Colossus indeed.

Definitely looking into this one.

O_O ...... AWWWWWWWWWWWWWESOME!

The problem could be the same as that of Shadow of Colossus: simply doing too much on a platform with too little power.

I'm not sure if SotC on the PS3 would have been awesome or stupid. I'll have to think about that.

It sure as hell would have fixed a lot of the hiccups on SotC at least...

They live in a city on the back of a giant? My bet's on it being Alexander.

Awesome all the way, man.

But SotC had barely any plot. This will have plot. And that's terrible.

Were you playing a Chinese backstreet market ripoff of Shadow of the Colossus perchance?

...Well, excuse me, princess! ( Nia was a princess so yeah, it makes perfect sense ) But the whole plot was you're a guy with a horse killing giants for what appears to be a god in order to revive a girl. You'd then play through the whole game only knowing that and you only find out who the girl is by the end of the game, not to mention what is the god-thing.

Something doesn't have to have plot and dialogue to have an epic plot. You obviously missed the whole point of SotC.

And this game looks pretty awesome...Definitely keeping an eye on it.

It seemed like the whole point of SotC was to fight amazingly giant colossi. At least for most people that was the point, and I don't think those people missed the mark. It was an amazing game either way.

But TDK points out something great. You don't need to have tons of dialogue or cutscenes to have an epic story. One of the great parts of SotC was that you played the story. Most games today think they need to add a big story to get everyone interested, but what ends up happening is that they have the gameplay on one side, and the convoluted story told through poorly written and mostly unbelievable dialogue on the other (even games with an interesting premise get crap for dialogue). And sometimes that works.

SotC on the other hand did have an epic story, and it told it in an Epic way for a game...it let the players play it. But it didn't force the story onto anyone who just wanted to play.

Oh, and back to the game at hand, It looks really cool. The idea of a city on the back of a beast could turn out great. I side with Ryong, the addition of a poor dialogue heavy and nonsenseical story will probably be one of the weak points.