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PlayStation 2 News by Corey Brotherson

11 August, 2005

It's turning into a good day for European versions of big Japanese games, as Koei has just stepped up to publish strategy RPG, Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana, in Europe.

Coming early 2006 on PlayStation 2, Atelier Iris was published in the US last month by Nippon Ichi, the company behind the mostly great assortment of Disgaea, Makai Kingdom, Phantom Brave, and La Pucelle.

Expect turn-based battles, anime style visuals and a return to 16-bit game ethics that's getting us misty-eyed already.

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itamae
11/08/05 @ 13:34
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Buy! Buy buy buy!

It's an excellent game, one of the best JRPGs in this generation.


By the way, great response time EG. I've sent you the news mere seconds ago ;-)
abigsmurf
11/08/05 @ 13:41
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companies releasing lesser RPGs in the EU makes me happy inside.
Huntcjna
11/08/05 @ 13:55
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This and Kamatri in the same day and its not even April 1st result!
valli
11/08/05 @ 13:59
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...not to forget the recent announcement of "Makai Kingdom" and "Digital Devil Saga", two of the top 10 best (S)JRPGs ever.
Teeth
11/08/05 @ 14:13
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/wets self
deaner
11/08/05 @ 14:21
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Any relation to the Square title "Secret of Mana"?
itamae
11/08/05 @ 14:26
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Any relation to the Square title "Secret of Mana"?


To the best of my knowledge, none whatsoever.
Freylis
11/08/05 @ 14:27
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Any relation to the Square title "Secret of Mana"?

Nope, based on the Atelier series of "alchemy" games by Gust. I think... :)
deaner
11/08/05 @ 14:30
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I know. It just would have been nice.

It was the second best RPG on 16bit.
Blerk
11/08/05 @ 15:32
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I'm much more excited about this than I am about Katamari. :-)
Firewine
11/08/05 @ 15:38
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Excellent! I'd happily buy this again if they clean up those bugs...
valli
11/08/05 @ 16:05
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I'd happily buy this again if they clean up those bugs...

You mean the dreadful end of game bug some people have experienced? I have a worse one: the game started to hang after the Dolby Pro Logic logo if the cartridge with the savegame was insterted. It won't start without a cartridge either, so I had to have my other cartridge inserted in order to get the game running, then at the main menu swap it for the one with the savegame. Happened after around 10h of play, still messed up. :(
Firewine
11/08/05 @ 17:04
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That sounds about right.. I haven't gotten so far but I have experienced the VO problems and one lockup (possibly incurred by skipping dialogue). Initially I thought it was only my copy that was glitching, the disc was scratched to f*ck when it arrived 'cause it wasn't seated in the box ~>:(

It's hard to imagine that Koei won't address these issues though, so I think I will just wait for the PAL version instead.
PinkSpider
11/08/05 @ 18:23
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PinkSpider is a little horny.

This is good news too!
MercenaryRaiden
11/08/05 @ 18:42
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First Makai Kingdom and now this...

It's like somebodys decided to care about the poor UK. *Crys*
Danj
11/08/05 @ 19:26
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I bet that, like all Koei's UK RPG releases of late, it won't have a Japanese language option on it. SCEE sucks!
Scimarad
12/08/05 @ 06:03
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Who cares? The American VAs are good in this anyway...

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