Who got game? Chocobo Tales (to Mahou no Ehon) battle gameplay

Posted Jan 16, 2007 at 7:47PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Nintendo DS Tags: Square Enix
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Brave little Chocobo faces big bad monster in Chocobo Tales/to Mahou no Ehon, children. But Chocobo is very, very brave. With a big cry of "Waaark!" (or "Kweh!", depending on your persuasion), he pulls out... a Poke-ball? No he doesn't choose you, Pikachu, but forgive us if the battle system for Square-Enix's Chocobo Tales might have borne a very slight similarity to Nintendo/GameFreaks' staple franchise to us; it's on the DS, after all.

Similar to the early Final Fantasies, Chocobo and his opponent attack by summoning various creatures from the Final Fantasy bestiary (one prominent example being the Bombs), where they will conduct some of their signature moves. Like the earlier Final Fantasies, though, the summons persist only for the attack. It's not known if the summons will confer additional defensive bonuses to their summoner (which would have been useful as poor little Chocobo is redlined in this GameTrailers gameplay, and barely manages to scratch out a victory). Additionally, because our resident translator is out for today, we wished we could have had help translating the in-game dialogue boxes.



Oh, and one other thing. Poor little Chocobo, ba-Bombed and fried out of his HP. This writer has now contacted the RSPCA to hound and punish all those who would choose to hurt poor little Chocobo like so. But wailing on Safer-Sephiroth is still not considered a crime against persons, even by Amnesty International. Hmm, imagine a Sephiroth summon. Will poor little Chocobo survive Meteor?

 
 
 

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by - 2007-01-16 23:06:53
ahha.. cool

the graphic is very nice. If gamefreak had did what squareenix has done with this game's battle's graphic it would have been quite cool. oh well...

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