Trusty Bell Trailer

When in battle there are areas in shadow and areas in the sun. You get different special abilities (y button) depending on which one of these two areas your character is standing in.

 

Ah yes, I've seen that ingame, I just didnt know what it was

Thnx for the tip

 

iirc the guy at the entrance of the forest zone explains you how this "light/shadow" mechanism is incorprated into the battle system. if that doesn't help start examining the fields that you are fighting enemies on, sooner or later you will start to notice that some parts of the battle fields are dark/shadowy and some areas of the fields are sunny/light (like falkster mentioned earlier). To be able to execute a light special move (like polka's healing orange glow), your character should be in a light/sunny spot in the field and then you should press assigned button(y in polka's orange glow example).

edit: all my posts that i wrote when my boss was breathing down my neck are grammatical "masterpeices", i'm just happy that you could decipher my ramblings frenzy

 

Thats a more detailed explanation and certainly made sense

Another kudos for helping me out on this

 

3 new videos!

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I liked Baten Kaitos, but am not really feeling it for this title. It's cute, scenic, and stylish, but I'm just getting jaded at this point. (Especially since there will be so many at that particular level that there's nothing to get excited about ahead of time like I was with--say--Rogue Galaxy, but instead will simply wait until it's launched and vetted to see if there's reason to pick it up. Blue Dragon falls in here, too.)

At this point, I can only really invest enough interest ones like Lost Odyssey, XIII/Versus, Mass Effect, and White Knight Story. Big projects, jaw-dropping graphics and artistry, and where you can see some kind of different gameply aspirations to latch onto. (Granted we can't see the gameplay with all of those yet, so I'll lean on the graphics and art until I find out whether the gameplay and story blows. )

 

Eternal Sonata demo available

OXM US has the exclusive Eternal Sonata demo on their August 07 issue. I'm not a RPG gamer, but it was a very pretty looking game. Usually they get at least a 3 week lead on their demos before it goes up on Live Marketplace.

Tommy McClain

 

Is this the same demo thats been up on the Japanese Marketplace for quite some time now?

 

the funny thing about the japanese demo is that it checks what continent you're downloading from and automatically switches to that language, the translation to english was pretty good but I was more impressed by the detailed visuals. It definitely won't be as impressive in just screens or movies, even in small battle areas there's a lot of care. you can see how to make a japanese live account here.

http://www.destructoid.com/eternal-...l-make-your-japanese-account-now--31512.phtml

 

I haven't played or seen the Japanese version. So I went on YouTube and found a video of the Japanese version. Like Nintenho said it was also available in English. So it looks it might be the same one. Except it says Eternal Sonata instead of Trusty Bell. LOL

Anyway, I didn't think Microsoft was allowing people to create accounts from other countries anymore? If so, the only way you could get this demo currently would be to have the magazine, that is until it hits the US Marketplace in a couple of weeks.

Tommy McClain

 

The only thing Microsoft disallows is downloading content that is specifically locked for use within selected regions. As far as I know, the only content that has such limitations thus far are movies and television series. All the other content is still downloadable.

 

Is this the first review :
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/819/819923p1.html

Game seems good but doesn't seem to live up its hype...

 

what hype?

 

Maybe not a huge hype but MS at least tried to hype this game as it was supposed to attract some Japenese gamers.
It was hyped as a real good classic jrpg but from this review it seems laking "deepness" and variety.
Anyway not a huge blow as MS is dead in Japan.

 

It's not really a traditional JRPG though, it has more action-oriented combat (still turn-based, but time and movement are important as well).

 

I don't this this has a date for Australia yet. Disappointing

 

How is the game ? Is it confirmed that Eternal Sonata (Trusty Bell: Chopin's Dream) is coming to PS3 with 2 extra playable characters ?

 

Supposedly, yes - http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=83364

 

Oh yippie I nearly forgot I had this game pre-ordered(And I'm getting a Eternal Sonata faceplate because I preordered ).

 

too bad is going to get lost in the holiday shuffle, I'll probably pick it up next may during the slow season lol