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Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope has just been released today in Japan for the XBOX 360. Given the beauty of this game, its not surprising to see that several Japanese gamers have put up videos of their gameplay. Check out the YouTube videos below...unfortunately YouTube seems to have disabled the HD version of these videos due to the size. If you have an account in Nico Douga, go see the original videos! One thing I have to say is that this is perhaps the most colorful looking XBOX 360 game there is right now! Everything you see in those videos are all in realtime! Having played Infinite Undiscovery, the graphics for SO4 is a pretty nice leap from IU. That image above is from one of the YouTube videos. Unfortunately due to the YouTube constraints the video might play back at a lower resolution. To get the best version go to the source in Nico Douga. I’ve read a couple of reviews for the game, most notably Game Informer, and the one of their chief complaints have something to do wit...

Microsoft is having a press conference this Tuesday to talk about their lineup of JRPGs: Link: http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8762178&publicUserId=4549175 "It's been a while since I've written one of these types of blogs. But yeah, I'm off to Japan for over a week to do that thing I do. What am I going to see? Well, the only thing I can disclose right now is that Microsoft is having a press conference in Shibuya next Tuesday, to show off its line-up of role-playing games. Yeah, on Xbox 360. Go figure. At least two of those will be Last Remnant and Infinite Undiscovery , but they apparently have some surprises up their sleeve." There's speculation that the new RPGs will be Cry On and Star Ocean 4. The SO4 rumor has been around for a long time; it would be an important victory for Microsoft if this rumor turned out to be true. While I'm not sure if more JRPGs will improve sales for the Xbox 360 in Japan, it will improve its reputation for game di...

Even prior to the release of Blue Dragon, I was already sold on the game. Being a JRPG fan (and a former Final Fantasy Sephiroth fangirl), I knew the promise behind the names Hironobu Sakaguchi, Nobuo Uematsu and Akira Toriyama. Blue Dragon was one of the key reasons for the purchase of our XBOX 360. And I was hoping that it will renew my interest in JRPGs which have diminished due to the long string of monotonous PS2 JRPGs (yeah I had a PS2...). But when I surf the net and read some of the impressions of people, who probably just watched the cut scenes or took a magnifying glass to stare at Famitsu scans and critique every single jaggy, I get a little annoyed. There are 'some' review sites have gone as far as saying that the game was worrisome. I don't know if they bothered to play the game or even if they understood a single Japanese Kanji character in order to make that claim. Still there are even some more people claiming that Hironobu Sakaguchi is a has been. A disgrac...