That's really all there is to say about it. There's no big event on the Pangya PC game (though I'm hoping there will be). It doesn't appear that the US release has any cool bonuses either. Maybe I'm just not checking enough sources.
The Tomy site says "PSP Exclusive Content" but that could mean anything :\
Hopefully things will pick up as the days come. Like I said, not much to say now.
The first half of this update includes waiter outfits for Max, Daisuke, Arin, and Lucia. They all look great, the ears are especially cute.
The second part is a Tuna club set. Hilarious XD Goes right along with the Megurine Arin outfit. I think it's supposed to give a special Pangya graphic when you hit Pangya.
These are all for the Bongdari (Papel) lottery. I don't play Pangya JP because of the foreign IP ban, but those outfits look pretty nice. If I could, I'd go for it.
A video for Tales of VS. It appears to be out in Japan, it should be coming to America soon enough.
As I suspected, it looks like a Smash Bros featuring the Tales characters, which is awesome! It looks like they've got new models for the older characters. Everything looks so nice, all things considered.
I wonder how the stats are going to work. I imagine balance will be thrown off a little. Hopefully when it's player vs player it will be okay.
A pretty good cast list. I think it's kind of strange how they would choose Richter to represent Tales of Symphonia 2 instead of of Emil or Marta, but I don't mind too much.
Probably not as good as Tales of VS, but this is a pretty darn good game.
2D doujin freeware. A lot of the sprites are ripped from previous tales games, but a lot of it looks original too. They rendered the Abyss characters nicely.
Try it out for yourself, it's only a few megabytes big. This is really a must for a fan of the Tales series.
EDIT: In case you can't find it, it's the option that says 「A.C.S.」本体(download) under the third menu section.
I just got my Game'N'Game newsletter announcing the opening of GhostX in english. Out of curiosity, I looked into it.
It looks awesome! That's some innovative battle system there, it looks like a lot of fun. I might give it a try, don't know how long I'll stick with it. It is only beta for now.
It's the English release of Pangya PSP! It's finally got its own place on the Tomy site. The trailer isn't all that different from the Korean or Japanese trailers, save the logo.
I can't wait for it to come out, if I could pre-order I would.
Here's hoping we get some of the same goodies that Japan and Korea got, like the figurine or the PSP pouch
Found a cute (and sexy) promotional video for Dream C Club while browsing Nico.
As far as I can tell, it's an XBox 360 release. It appears to be a rhythm game with some visual novel/date-sim elements, and extremely cute girls.
It could very well be an H-game, but considering that it's a console release, they probably kept to to suggestive.
The graphics look really nice. Developers are taking full advantage of the 360's rendering capabilities. If only more games looked like that (the rendering style, though I wouldn't mind more cute girls in games either).
All of the girls' boobs appear to have their own physics engine applied or something, their hair doesn't even move as smoothly.
This like this are exactly why I love Pangya so much. This cover by Sweatdrop of SLGaming is better then I can do, considering that I can't play Pangya KR. Just posting to say how awesome it is.
“ You don’t have to wait until the transfer is complete to enjoy Pangya” The transfer process will be finalized during the next scheduled maintenance. Synchronization of the data between the two accounts will be based on the most recent information.
The message for a successful transfer. Literally minutes after, I tried again, and it worked! I knew it was just a bug, gotta stay optimistic.
Hehehe, I bought like 15000 power pots before the server closed, and since pang isn't going to transfer over, I made a good investment.
Due to circumstances beyond our control, the account you are trying to transfer has been permanently closed by the previous publisher of Albatross 18. Accounts closed in this manner cannot be transferred to Ntreev USA.
That's the message I got after trying to transfer my old account. I'm keeping in mind that this attempt was right after the announcement was made (like literally minutes after). Some investigation reveals that just about everyone else is having the same problem, so I suspect it's a bug on Ntreev's part. Maybe it's because they had to rush to get this out, hopefully this will be fixed soon.
It's not quite a port either though. ToV for the PS3 includes what appears to be a new character (Patty Fleur), new dungeon(s?), new monsters/bosses, and an addition to the battle system (see trailer). The stuff in the red box on the bottom left I shall elaborate on later.
Other uncited rumors include Flynn being a greater part of the story rather than joining you for one battle.
The new character isn't quite my type, but battling with her looks like it's going to be awesome. Who wouldn't want to play as a gun-toting loli pirate? Plenty of people, but whatever, it's all good.
I can't wait 'til this comes out in America. At this time, the planned release date for Japan is in the 3rd quarter of this year. If all goes well, we can all play through ToV again by 2010!
I wonder how they're going to work her into the story. I kind of hope there will be a complete revamp of the game's script so there will be something new. At the very least, this will be something interesting.
Now, the issue with the red box on the bottom left. That is an announcement for the Tales of Vesperia Anime Movie. That's right, Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike, also scheduled for a 2009 release, is a prequel to the game. I'm hoping Bandai Entertainment is going to be a good company and license/release it here in America. I'm still holding out the the Symphonia OVA to be licensed here too.
Announcement A new announcement regarding Pangya USA has been posted today. It appears that the game shall be released soon! I expect it before the end of this month. Ntreev sure is working hard, I'm sure it'll all pay off in the end.
I'll keep watching, the release of PangyaUSA is near.
It's appears to be a cross between two awesome games (Smash bros and Tales of), with the Tales heroes (and heroines) dating back to Tales of Destiny (maybe even further back).
The graphics look decent for PSP, and the gameplay can be nothing short of awesome if they stick to the Tales trademark battle system.
This is going on the list of "Awesome PSP games I must have!" It's getting to be quite a list
A new Project DIVA promotional video featuring Miku dancing to a mix of Livetune's Packaged, OSTER Project's 恋スルVOC@LOID and ryo's ワールドイズマイン (World is Mine).
There's just something so adorable in dancing Miku. It's just so incredibly cute. Miku has some sexy charm while she's dancing to World is Mine too.
I can't wait for this game to come out. It's supposed to come out July 2 of this year in Japan. Maybe I'll get it, since I doubt it'll come to America.
Also, an hour long Yappa Asobina cover on the game. I don't know Japanese, so I found an article that covers it pretty well.
I can't understand it, but I'll talk about what I can understand.
It looks like they're promoting the Afterburners Blue (I can't remember the actual name of the clubset) set. I don't know why they chose the afterburners, the Mythril Swords would have made a lot better promo.
The second and third link from the left on the navigation bar appears to be ways to customize your afterburners. You can choose the handle and the wings. There are some "coming soon" placeholders, but I doubt those will be filled in.
Also, the fourth link from the left on the top navigation bar leads to a page about a set of "P5P" games, The PangyaM@stery. The logo is a parody of the IDOLM@STER logo, I wonder if the "game" is the game. Clicking on the images leads to a description about the game, but I can't read it (can't google-translate it either). The game covers look interesting though.
Can't figure out what the far right link is. I can read the required spaces (which appear to be the requirements to run the game). I think it's more promotion. The link below leads to a page that advertises Pangya. A similar diagram appears there, pointing out the key features of Pangya.
Number 1 is the friendly interface. Number 2 is the various settings and courses. Number 3 is the large number of items to customize characters (the 1000 I assume is the number of options). The Afterburners page uses similar writing, so I assume that it's probably the same.
So there's my cover of Pangya JP's april fools event (it's April 1st in Japan right now BTW). Maybe someone who actually speaks Japanese could give better explanations.
Well, the last day of March. Pangya US was scheduled to launch late March, but it's now the end of March. That's okay though, they at least posted an announcement stating why it's late.
Looks like account transfers aren't going very smoothly, but I'd rather they have a thorough migration rather than risking the loss of some data.
The end of the announcement says that Pangya will be out April. I'll be watching out for that, can't wait
Aeria Games (who currently publishes Shin Megami Tensei amoung many other online games) has licensed the Hello Kitty MMO. I'm wondering why I'm surprised by this.
I found the Hello Kitty MMO some time ago, I think before this blog started. Anyway, here it is, an official NA English localizations. Hello Kitty fans, go nuts.
I have an Aeria account, so I may give it a try, just for the lols or something.
