Speaking of anticipated games, ever since the first press release of this title came out I've been eagerly awaiting more info and videos to catch a glimpse of this magnificent project. I mean, how can you lose? Take the legendary Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro) and have them work their cinematic genius for the next Level-5 game (Professor Layton series, Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King). Add sound direction by none other than Joe Hisaishi himself and you've got yourself a piece of gaming gold. At least we hope so. This game just came out a few days ago in Japan for the DS. There's already a follow-up planned next year for the PS3 (I just peed a little), but there have been no release dates set so far for the US. So now we play the waiting game. I did manage to find a fortunate few on youtube who have imported the game so take a look at the trailer and some in-game footage. I can't speak for the game play but it does sound and look gorgeous as expected.

It's interesting that this game comes with a book that's integral to playing through the game. Remember when games used to actually require this? It would confuse the fuck out of people. Well here, take a look at one of the legendary RPG games from the days of VG lore. This was one for the ages.