Videogamer writes: "Dragon Quest IV is nearly 20 years old. When it was originally released on the NES in February 1990, Gazza was the best player in the world, Radiohead were called On a Friday and Street Fighter II was yet to enjoy the grace of my dragon punching hands. If Gazza's Italia 90 heroics, Radiohead's Creep and Street Fighter II feel very old, there's a reason - they are. And so does Dragon Quest: The Chapters of the Chosen, the DS remake of DQIV.
It's inevitable of course. While the graphics have been sprinkled with 3D magic dust, the core gameplay has largely remained untouched. That means that random battles, perhaps the most annoying thing in the world ever! will unashamedly interrupt your happy go lucky exploration of the Dragon Quest world with nary a care for modern gaming tastes."
According to their GDC presentation, here are the top-selling video games from Level-5.
I never realized Dark Cloud sold a million.Wow.
Also I easily knew Dragon Quest VIII is their most successful game.
The first one was horrible though. The second one was pure awesome. Just creating your own towns, fishing and taking pictures of stuff to create things was addicted enough.
O man "Jeanne d’Arc (PSP) - 220,000 World Wide"- this game deserved so much more than this :(
Dark Cloud 2 also deserves way more than 900k, that game is so awesome, i finished it 3 times, don't remember when i last did with any game. For me that was/is Sonys Zelda.
Jeanne d'arc is amazing. Sad to see great games with such low sales and see generic average games get big sales numbers. Level 5 are great game makers and I can't wait for WKC to arrive in the U.S.
Yeah, that is a truly a shame how badly it sold. It was a high quality title. My favorite Level 5 game by far. I'd say even deeper and more balance then Valkyria Chronicles and it was a handheld game. But I guess we may never see a sequel to either game though...
so why havent we heard anything about a new Dark Cloud since obviously Level 5 has a large fanbase? And Im sure Sony would be glad to publish the game...
Heh, Sony own the rights to the game, but I have no doubt Level-5 will be happy to carry it on.
I'm guessing that coming off White Knight, they're probably starting on their next project which will probably be announced at TGS.
They're probably busy with DQIX right now but they've probbaly got plans for it.
Can't wait for DQIX, Armor Project + Level 5=Awesome.
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Ever since the merger, no other companies comes close to the popularity of Square Enix's JRPG franchises.
Anything that Nomura did.
Tetsuya Nomura, the best JRPG Director/Developer.
I am looking forward to his next game! It cannot come too soon :(
* Final Fantasy V (1992) - Battle Graphics
* Final Fantasy VI (1994) - Graphic Director
* Live A Live (1994) - Tosa-ben Translation
* Chrono Trigger (1995) - Field Graphics
* Front Mission (1995) - Graphic Designer
* Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (1996) - Boss Monster Designer
* Final Fantasy VII (1997) - Character Designer, Battle Visual Director & Original Story
* Parasite Eve (1998) - Character Designer
* Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring (1998) - Character Supervisor
* Brave Fencer Musashi (1998) - Character Illustrator
* Parasite Eve II (1999) - Character Illustrator
* Final Fantasy VIII (1999) - Character Designer & Battle Visual Director
* The Bouncer (2000) - Character Designer
* Final Fantasy X (2001) - Character Designer
* Kingdom Hearts (2002) - Director & Concept Design
* Final Fantasy X-2 (2003) - Main Character Designer
* Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII (2004) - Character Designer
* Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004) - Director & Concept Design
* Musashi: Samurai Legend (2005) - Main Character Designer
* Last Order: Final Fantasy VII (2005)- Director
* Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (2005) - Director
* Kingdom Hearts II (2005) - Director & Concept Design
* Final Fantasy V Advance (2006) - Monster design
* Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (2006) - Character Designer
* Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode: Final Fantasy VII (2006)
* Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (2007) - Creative Producer & Character Designer
* The World Ends With You (2007) - Character Designer
* Kingdom Hearts coded (2008) - Director & Concept Design
* Dissidia: Final Fantasy (2008) - Character Designer
* Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (2009)
* Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2009)
* Final Fantasy XIII (2009) - Character Designer
* Final Fantasy Agito XIII (2009) - Character Designer
* The 3rd Birthday (2009)
* Final Fantasy Versus XIII (TBA) - Director & Character Designer
Well the best games were the ones that both worked on.
The other games are good but not as good.
Today, 2nd January 2009, is the ninth day of Christmas. It may seem like Christmas is all but over-and-done with now, but Electronic Theatre are staying true to tradition and heading-on through those infamous twelve days! On this ninth day, The Twelve Games of Christmas enters its ninth edition, and today we run through the top-performing disc-based releases of September 2008. Hold onto your hats, it's going to be bumpy from here-on out!
