Hand Held Madness!

After giving a look at what's to come for the hand held gaming this year, man... it feels like the Christmas season is rolling right back in the door all over again.

Topping the list for me is Prinny: Can I really be the Hero?, which actually looks pretty good to me. What makes it so much more attractive to me is the fact that it's finally a Disgaea game that isn't just another entry into the series.

And call me crazy, but I am assuming that the Prinny pictured to the left here is the main character. Notice something though? What is with that scarf around it's neck? Could it actually be Laharl...?

A better picture for the sake of this thought would be the one below. The only reason I have the picture at the top was because it tied into what I was writing today!

Sorry, I my brain is a little warped today.


Next one up is DJ Max Fever, which looks and sounds interesting to me. Outside of Rock Band though, I don't really stray into the land of Music games. Nothing against them, it is just that those types of games weren't ever really something I was that interested in.

And for the love of humanity, don't let me get near a drum set for Rock Band. I can't play that thing even if my life depeneded on it. I am just THAT DAMN BAD at it!

Getting back on track here, RPGs are getting a lot of love on the hand helds I've been seeing. Games of note include Blue Dragon Plus, Dragon Quest V, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and Suikoden Tierkeis.

Of the games listed there, I am most hopeful for Suikoden Tierkeis at this point in time. In my opinion, that series lost it's way after the second game and it just never recaptured the sense of adventure and feeling that the original and second games had.

I am hoping that this release for the DS reaches back to it's past, rather then boosting up graphics and having empty towns and boring fights.

One last game I'll mention here and I am almost ashamed to even say this, but the last game I'll mention is Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia. It is a game that I've been looking at for a while now and it actually does look interesting to me.

Now I haven't played a Pokemon game in quite a few years, the last time being when Pokemon Colosseum was released for the Gamecube. And even then, it was not something I had picked up myself and so my time playing was limited.

Thinking back to that game, it actually reminded me of the Suikoden series. It reminded me of it because the towns, hell the entire game itself really, felt soulless and just really bland to me. Just thinking about it makes me happy that I can still play games like Chrono Trigger, which reminds me of the good ol' days...