Link: next gen column on big japanese games of the week

April 20, 2006, 03:06 AM

by tim, via next-gen.biz -
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some new final fantasy xi expansion came out, too! in it, you stand around enemies, waiting your turn to miss and then be hit!! eventually, if you pay squenix enough money, you get to see some big yellow birds and flying boats!! shops in akihabara love it enough to spell it right!! This little column I write on Next-Gen.biz strikes again, this time revealing two tiny things about Mother 3 and actually reviewing the game Ninety-Nine Nights. There's some information about Young Yangus and the Mysterious Dungeon in there, as well. However, the part of the column I'm proudest of deals with Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, which, yes, is abbreviated "GRAW" (leave it to American game designers to figure out how to make the name of a game start with an animal growling sound).

I must admit that I'm disappointed by Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, even without playing it. I am disappointed by its title. "Advanced Warfighter." "Advanced" implies that something has been learned, progress has been made, and/or that the future has come. I'm disappointed mostly because I always figured advanced wars would be danced, not fought.

To see where it goes from there, you'll have to read the column. It is a huge day, today, for videogame releases here in Japan -- Okami, Dragon Quest: Young Yangus and the Mysterious Dungeon, Ninety-Nine Nights, Mother 3. This is a bigger game release day than we've seen for a while. Anyway, goodnight!!