Solarobo- new DS action RPG announced

[granville]

A new DS game has been unveiled, an action RPG by the name of Solarobo. Developed by Cyberconnect2. I believe they are best known for developing the .hack/*** games for PS2. Anyways, this is an original title if I read correctly. Here's what we know so far about Solarobo-

Title: Solarobo - Sore kara coda he
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: Action RPG
Release Date: 2010

Staff:
Executive Director - Hiroshi Matsuyama (CC2 President)
Director - Takayuki Isobe (Tail Concerto)
Main Visual, Character Design - Nobuteru Yuki (Tail Concerto)
Mechanical Illustration - Yoshitake Taniguchi (SRW)
Opening Animation Director: Yoshiki Yamakawa (Hell's Angels)
Opening Animation Production: Madhouse

- 1 to 4 players over wifi
- wireless play
- robot has the ability to lift crates
- game features ideas that are expanded upon the original Tail Concerto
- action parts with the robot included
- Town maps in the game employ side-scrolling movement using 3D backgrounds
- cutscenes use "Motion Illustation Demo" with fill both DS screens, and are 3D
- full 3D dungeons
- action RPG
- growth for robot and main character
- in the planning for ten years
- in development for three years
- epic human drama
- sci-fi theme
- takes place on the floating island world of the Shepherd Republic
- two races: Inubito and Nekobito (dog people and cat people)
- play as Red Savarin, a 17-year-old Inubit
- story intro: Red meets Ell Melizee, a mysterious Nekobito
- Red's younger sister, 13-year-old Chocolat Gelato, travel together through the game
- Red's mech is the Dahak-AZ103
- most exploring of towns and dungeons is done while riding Dahak
- pick up enemies, catch missiles and thrown them back, throw treasure chests with Dahak
- Red will have to go into some areas on foot
- Red can break objects, climb ladders, control switches, swim, and battle enemies with gun/sword
- opening animation by animation studio Mad House

And here are some (low quality) scans showing off what the game will be like-

For the record, this is apparently the project that was first talked about here- http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=159722

Long development much? Anyways, looks fun, although i imagine some people will be disappointed that it's not a .hack game or whatever.

http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=117455
http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=117511

 

[Prime_Zero]

Cool it looks like a nice game pretty sure ive seen parts of that one robot on a anime movie Castle in the Sky, hopefully it'll port to other countries unlike with Choushoujuu Mecha MG which should have been.

 

[zeromac]

Yea apparently its based in a world of Dog people and Cat people and you play as a Dog person

 

[Wabsta]

Looks really awesome. I'm looking forward to it

 

[Hotzdevil]

looks good, can't wait to get my hands on it..

 

[SylvWolf]

Haha, furries. Other than that, if CC2's doing it, I'll check it out.

 

[DarkWay]

this is definately worth a look in my opinian it looks pretty damn sweet

 

[Kawo]

If the customization is high this game will be fun.

I'm fine with dog but cats are better.

 

[Rock Raiyu]

I kind of posted this last night but oh well...

Though I'm not sure if I want this or not. Doesn't really seem that appealing to me at all.

 

[granville]

I missed that, mods can lock this if they like. I don't want to post redundant news.

 

[sadak5]

This looks really good. Very nice.

 

[shito]

i like it, looks like a bit of megaman legends, i hope they make an anime too

 

[GeekyGuy]

"...epic human drama..."

You wouldn't know it from those screenshots.

So, basically, they're making a Star Fox RPG, since Nintendo's too busy to give a flyin' flip?

 

[cosmiccow]

Sounds interesting. Wake me up when it gets released in english.

 

[Nimbus]

This game sounds extremely promising.

I will be on the watchout for it's release. It seems charming and yet also action-oriented, but with RPG elements. Everything I like rolled up into one game.

 

[shakirmoledina]

the only troublesome thing i can see here is AP but some companies (esp new ones) tend not to keep any AP on their games and i hope to see the same here