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A Look At Dragon Quest Wars

The people behind Advance Wars bring you a DSiWare game starring... slimes?

Sep. 28 2009

Posted by: Brad

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Dragon Quest Wars

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@rottendevice said:
" Looks like an extremely scaled-down version of any generic Final Fantasy Tactics clone.  Thanks but no thanks. "
I think it looks like crap too, but Intelligent Systems has been making these kinds of games long before Final Fantasy Tactics came out.
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This game looks like crap. Please don't port to America. 
 
On a side note, The Dragon Quest series really doesn't seem like it has evolved at all. The battle system has been the same throughout the series. I for one vote that SE stop being lazy and try to change it up just a bit.

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I love that music but the game reminds me of the Chess Match in Karazhan for some reason.  When I am done with the game, I want to go upstairs and spam heals on the tank during the second round.

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All I took away from that was how awful the music was.

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looks nice and cheery

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This title promises dragons. I have yet to see one.  
 
DRAGUNZ! >:D

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Ummm....so what the hell is this?

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@ryanwho said:
" @Shatner said:

"  Isn't Intelligent Systems a internal Nintendo R&D studio?   How could they be doing a DQ game?  "

I believe TOSE was internal at one time as well but they also make Nintendo console products with Square IPs like Rocket Slime. I don't see why it would be a problem to contract an internal studio out to work on an IP exclusive to a Nintendo platform. Now if they were going to, say, port it to the iphone later, that would be a bit more perplexing   but with exclusivity this seems like a pretty normal deal. "
That's an interesting point.  It still doesn't  make sense to me  though.  There are plenty of third party companies that make stuff for different publishers. But if IS is a true Nintendo 1st or 2nd party developer, wouldn't this be kinda like Team ICO, making a Final Fantasy game?  Weird.
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Edited By GeekyDad

Instead of saying "A Look at," why not just say, "Such and such trailer"? That whole hide-the-advertisement thing feels a little dirty.

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Well it's better then a new clock skin.

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Edited By citizenkane

Well that looks.....interesting.

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I FUCKING LOVE THAT MUSIC

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Trumpets make everything better.

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Sure why not.. How does it work? Not for me, have fun people.

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Edited By Pie

Dont post a video with the word "look" in it unless its a quick lokk, got me all excited you did

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Ew. The scale of this game really put me off.

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@ryanwho: 
 
Maybe it was gameplay-wise, but FFT had a better soundtrack, storyline, visuals, and characters (but then against Tactics Ogre was a Super Famicom game).
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@Shatner said:

"  Isn't Intelligent Systems a internal Nintendo R&D studio?   How could they be doing a DQ game?  "

I believe TOSE was internal at one time as well but they also make Nintendo console products with Square IPs like Rocket Slime. I don't see why it would be a problem to contract an internal studio out to work on an IP exclusive to a Nintendo platform. Now if they were going to, say, port it to the iphone later, that would be a bit more perplexing but with exclusivity this seems like a pretty normal deal.
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 Isn't Intelligent Systems a internal Nintendo R&D studio?   How could they be doing a DQ game? 

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@rottendevice said:
" Looks like an extremely scaled-down version of any generic Final Fantasy Tactics clone.  Thanks but no thanks. "
FFT was an extremely scaled down Ogre Battle clone and little old you got enjoyment out of it, right? There's an audience for everything.
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Edited By rottendevice

Looks like an extremely scaled-down version of any generic Final Fantasy Tactics clone. 
 
Thanks but no thanks.

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Lots of trailers today! Hurrah!

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Edited By mikehaar

Interesting... I really like what Intelligent Systems does. Advance Wars, Paper Mario- I might give this a try.