Who needs next-gen when the the PS2 is still putting out gems like this?!

Coming Late Spring 2007.

http://www.atlus.com/odinsphere/index.html

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It's made by some of the main people behind Princess Crown for the Saturn, and is sort of a unofficial sequel. It looks great.

It looks absolutely stunning.

wow that is stunning, Cant wait for that one

Oh Man.. another $50 to spend. Hope ATLUS drop this $ucker down $40.

Yup. What's cool is that I pulled my Saturn out for some Dungeons & Dragons arcade and ended up playing a little Princess Crown last weekend. So this was very nice news to come across.

Looks great. I'll have to keep my eye on this one.

Wow. Looks like my PS2's gonna get a fair amount of abuse this spring. Thanks for the link and the info, Pixy.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll have to check back in with this when I can see more.

Looks like a fantasy/anime lover's wet dream.

What's the game-play supposed to be like?

If it's anything like Princess Crown it's basically a side-scrolling action RPG. Battles are played out like a very simple one-on-one fighting game. Though I'm hearing that although it is a spiritual successor to that game.. it may not have exactly the same style of gameplay, so who knows.

Princess Crown gameplay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNHiWlZLK0U

Cool... a must have!

Looks nice, but unfortunately I don't read Japanese, so no sale.

Bump for release date! I'll be getting this at GameCrazy with some trade-in credit I have saved up. Anyone know if 5/22 is the ship date or the actual in-store date?

The 1up Show episode 76 has about a 5 minute segment on Odin Sphere that was really good.

5/22 is the ship date, should be in game shops Wed the 23rd. Don't know about Target/BB/CC etc.

Is this coming to the DS as well? For some reason when i heard the name i thought it was supposed to be a DS title but i could have just been confused. It does look really good.

I'm pretty sure it's PS2 only.

It's $34.99 with free shipping at outpost.com, for those interested.

https://shop4.outpost.com/%7BdGvr04A...H:MAIN_RSLT_PG

It nearly breaks the PS2 from what I have read so it definitely will not run on a DS.

This one is high on my wishlist.

It looked really good on the 1UP show. Just 1 more reason to get a PS2.

You know, I'm looking forward to Odin Sphere and all, but an excerpt from this (positive) review makes it seem like too much of a pain in the ass to deal with:

I'm exhasted just from reading that - forget trying to do it all...

Yeah, that does sound kinda...eh. Gamespot gave this game a 7.6.I'm still getting it, but I'm not so sure about it now.

Damn, that sounds way too tedious for me too. May still give it a shot down the road though.

Hopefully it's the sort of thing where you pick up those nuggets of information in small pieces as you go along. I think the reviewer explained it in excruciating detail to drive home his or her point and emphasize the game's depth, but I'm guessing you can start playing without worrying about things at such a minute level. The big complaints I've heard so far are the slowdown issues and the fact that the game doesn't really hold your hand enough early on, but that's why the Intertubes created GameFAQs and obsessive nerds.

I'm glad an RPG that actually requires something on the part of the player sneaks into the US from time to time.. I think gamers (and most especially reviewers) here are still suckling at the teet of Final Fantasy VII and all the mediocre PS1 RPGs that rode its curtails that expected nothing from the person behind the controller. Anyway, the section above sounds exactly like Princess Crown and the text quoted boils down to the player planting two seeds to restore his health.. that's going into your inventory and dropping two seeds, waiting a few seconds and reaping the reward. It's not as strenuous as that reviewer writes it.

I'm really torn between this and Dawn of Mana this week..