Bonds of Gold/Ougon no Kizuna (Action-RPG, Jaleco)

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Details

- full blown Action-RPG
- Scenario: Miwa Shouda (FFXII, Saga Frontier, Little King's Story)
- Director/Programmer: Youichi Kawaguchi (DQVIII Director, Little King's Story)
- Published in Japan by Jaleco (Goblin Commander)
- Winter 2008 in Japan
- Japanese for "bonds of gold"
- Bonds with other characters play a important role in the game
- Main Character name is Rian
- There's a king call Jared and a princess call Aina
- Game's graphic will have a pencil effect to them, cel shading
- Main story mode's divided into chapters
- Plus there's over 100 additional quests to undertake (100 sidequests)
- Accumulated gauge techniques can be used.
- Huge bosses, climb them, find the weak point by pointing the Wii remote on screen (Shadow of the Colossus vibe)
- hordes of monsters all at once

Story

Set in the kindgom of Navigatoria, which has been under threat from the evil demon lord Galvaran for ages. A great hero, Gelade, successfully encased Galvaran in a tree of crystal in the last war, but went missing in the process. The monsters are back, though, and this time it's Gelade's emotionless son Rian who soldiers to the rescue, along with the stubborn, tomboyish Princess Ayna and her personal tutor Mist.

Scans:

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[Joseph]

Jaleco's still around? O_o

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Jaleco's still around? O_o

Apparently... yes.

I just hope that doesn't hinder my non-japanese release. In a way, for a company that we haven't heard of for ages this seems to be a attempt at a comeback (perhaps in a way, like the first final fantasy was for Square?), with the talent they recruited, visuals they're aiming for and all. But yeah.

[Craymel]

"Game's graphic will have a pencil effect to them, cel shading"

That is my favourite piece of info on this game Is there any info on the consoles this will be on?

Just searched on google. It looks like it's coming out on the Wii (leaping for joy now). Oh google, you are my only friend.

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Is there any info on the consoles this will be on?

Wii (you googled it, I know)

Jeez, don't know how I forgot. I brought the info from other forum where there's usually let a [Wii] tag before the name, but here we don't use tags so... oh well. forgot to properly identify it. But the first scan kinda give it away 

Most of my topics for games on the general section are Wii ones though, I find it worthwhile since most of them would go unoticed otherwise, and this is kind of an RPG forum after all.

I'm very glad it's a Wii game too, really hope it gets released outside japan (or rather, it has to be )

[Craymel]

Well thanks for the news on this game.

I really like the fact that they are trying to make the game look good. I'm really starting to get annoyed with all the "It's not always about the graphics!" statements. While this is true I never actually heard this very much until nintendo released the wii.

[Craymel]

Sorry for the double post but I wanted to bump the topic when I posted this.

Apparently  they have the main site for this game up now.

http://kizuna-game.jp/

By the way, FLASH SITES SHOULD DIE!

EDIT: Here's another tidbit about the site. There is a timer in the top left corner. This timer tells you how much time you have to view the supper secret info (basically everything revealed in the magazine scans) before it boots you out. 

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stumbled upon screenshots, not scans

here they are:

Artwork:

Seems like the pencil effect is more literal than I initially thought (thought it was only cell shading) instead, it's very Valkyria Chronicles'ish. WANT.

[Craymel]

It looks more like the style of the cut scenes in the psp port of Final fantasy tactics to me.

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Moar Scans: 

[LJkAze]

This game looks very sketchy, but I will get it because looks like a very decent game for Wii. Any release date yet for JP?

[Craymel]

Apparently it's set for a winter release. I haven't seen any actual release date yet though.

Here are some new scans too

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I love the new bosses.

[Craymel]

I wanna see some videos of this in action now. It really looks like it's coming together well I just can't wait.

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seems like XSEED says they want to bring it

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Famitsu Scans:

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