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Nintendo News | Japan Wii/DS Tidbits: Camelot Golfing Game, Luminous Arc 2 and More...

The latest edition of Famitsu magazine has now hit the streets and, as usual, the guys over at NeoGAF.com have lifted the best bits. To start with, though, below are the latest review scores from the magazine:

ACE3 (PS2) - 8 / 9 / 8 / 9: 32/40
Theta (NDS) - 7 / 8 / 7 / 7: 29/40
Gundam Mahjong + Z (NDS) - 7 / 7 / 7 / 7: 28/40
Rezelcross (PSP) - 7 / 6 / 7 / 7: 27/40
Dear My Sun!! (PS2) - 6 / 7 / 6 / 5: 24/40
EA Sports Rugby 08 (PS2) - 4 / 6 / 6 / 5: 21/40

Check out the details of the various games featured in the magazine below:

We Love Golf (Wii, Capcom)

First up is the news we have all been waiting for - Camelot is back on the Nintendo scene, albeit under Capcom's wing this time, following the original 'bad news' that it was working solely on an online PC golf game for a South Korean publisher. "We Love Golf" is set for a Winter 2007 release in Japan and lets the player use the Wii controller for the swinging motion and has courses such as one located at a beach resort and another at a desert ruins.

Inazuma Eleven (NDS, Level 5)

Moving on, Cubed3 previously reported that Level 5 had an RPG in the works for the Nintendo DS, under the name 'Inazuma Eleven' and this has now been confirmed. The game is a football-themed RPG that has:

Matches that are played with the stylus;
A story mode where you play as a scout;
Passing where you touch the player you want to pass to;
Characters that are anime-like with insane special attacks;
Dribbling where you actually draw an arrow in the direction you want to play;
The ability to, when dribbling, touch other players, or you hit people who have the ball, which takes you into a "Command Battle" where two commands are displayed on the bottom screen;
Shooting where you touch the goal and you can also decide to shoot left or right;
Over 1,000 characters who can be your 'allies' throughout the adventure;
A versus mode and the possibility of swapping via wireless play.

Professor Layton and the Devil's Box (NDS, Level 5)

Level 5 has now confirmed that the sequel to the 600,000+ selling game is coming on 29th November this year in Japan. This is the second of the proposed trilogy and this time there are new characters included, such as Anthony (voiced by Takao Oosawa) and Katya (voiced by Suzuka Oogo). There are to be extended functions found within the Professor's bag, such as for the Investigation Memo (which lists the current status of the investigation as well as past discoveries); The Deepening Mysteries (lists the keywords of the various "occurrences" that you come across); Puzzle Dictionary (where puzzles you have encountered are stored); and Save (...). Finally, Salyu will sing the theme song.

King Story (Wii, Marvelous Interactive)

This 'Dream Team' project has been re-confirmed as being called 'Ousama Monogatari' ('King Story'). The Cing (Another Code / Hotel Dusk), Town Factory and Marvelous Interactive (Harvest Moon, Rune Factory and much more) joint venture is being readied for a 2008 launch. and has you playing as a king, making your towns people do work and build up the country. It is an RPG with strong simulation elements and each character has his/her own way of life. Also, if you head out of town, you will come across places infested with beasts that can be killed with between one and ten of your population (of which they all have different strength levels).

Luminous Arc 2 (NDS, Marvelous Interactive)

Finally there is the announcement of Luminous Arc 2 from Marvelous Interactive, due in Winter 2007. Battle conditions are much more varied this time and each character can also now equip up to three Lapis Arts. The main character has a contract with a witch, allowing him to use an engage rings for support skills in battles, which increase the physical / magic / etc attacks. Also, depending on which witch you have a contract with, the results will differ throughout the game.

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Thanks to NeoGAF's King Zell for the tip.

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Jump_button 29.08.2007#1

^^ i was right about King story "Project O" so your the kind hmm

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WP-Final 29.08.2007#2

Another golf game? Where's Golden Sun DS Camelot? Smilie

JoshSL 29.08.2007#3

Why does it say Capcom, but then talk about Camelot? Is that a typo or are they working together on the golf game?

& yeah, me wants Camelot to make fun RPG of Golden proportions.

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patjuan32 29.08.2007#4

Does any one know if Camelot is becoming an Independent Developer or are they still going to be a second party to Nintendo?

JoshSL 29.08.2007#5

patjuan32 said:
Does any one know if Camelot is becoming an Independent Developer or are they still going to be a second party to Nintendo?

*Wants Camelot* Let's sing them a song!!! >.<

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jesusraz 29.08.2007#6

Camelot has always been a Third Party...just like Factor 5. It's just it chose to be Nintendo-exclusive, as did Factor 5 a long time ago. Now it's working with Capcom, though, you have to wonder if there was a disagreement between the two...perhaps Camelot wanted to do Golden Sun, but Nintendo was pushing it towards Mario sports game too much?

Anyway, my focus is more on that Level 5 RPG - a football RPG! Sounds very interesting to me Smilie

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Mandown 29.08.2007#7

That footy RPG sounds bizarre, the Capcom Camelot gof game sounds interesting seeing as though the new Tiger 08 is not as good as we would have hoped. Someone has to create a good one sooner or later, and Capcom could help. Camelot made the Mario Golf game on GC, right?, that should help I reckon.{LS]

patjuan32 30.08.2007#8

UBISoft, Capcom, EA, and Activision are third parties. This means that they develop games independently/without the influence of Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo. However Camelot developed Nintendo licensed titles and titles for Nintendo platforms only. Since the studio is not owned by Nintendo, this makes them a second party.

jesusraz 30.08.2007#9

You're close. However, the games Camelot worked on were merely under a 'Second Party Agreement'. The company remains completely independent of Nintendo and could have developed any other games for other systems should it have chosen to.

Instead it entered into Second Party Agreements for the Mario sports series and, I also believe, Golden Sun (with Nintendo retaining the rights to that series' name). This is similar to the agreements Nintendo has had in the past with Namco (Donkey Konga, Starfox Assault), Capcom (Zelda: Oracles & Minish Cap), Sega (F-Zero GX), Hudson (Mario Party) and Square Enix (Super Mario RPG, Mario Basketball)...