Atlus goes for Baroque

This is a pretty neat dungeon crawl.

You know, a few years ago nobody would have even heard of the name Atlus. These days, Atlus is making a name for itself thanks to its high quality work on several very high profile DS and Wii games. It appears as if their trend toward great games will continue this year and it might take them one more rung higher on the food chain of gaming developers/publishers. I bet they won't sell out to EA eaither.

Good old Atlus and there love for the post-apocalyptic world, gotta love em! :D

I already pre-ordered it... i hope it is as good as P3!!! ;-)

wow this is interesting. im looking forward to this game

nice! now all we need is P3 Fes.. pls atlus T_T

As a RPG fan, any new games are rather welcome and if it's from creators of P3 then I'm really looking forward to it.

looking forward to it I must say Atlus is kicking ass right now. P3, Odin Sphere, Riviera: Promise Land remake, Luminous Arc, etc. Square better watch their back.

yeah i bet there are adds in nintendo power only for this game like rivera and yggdra. not very many people trust the adds in that magazine at all what they need to strive for is more media attention like game sites and the like.

hmm, sounds different thats for sure, if I had a wii I would pick it up

This looks kind of interesting. Although Im not going to expect amazingly high sells, Atlus has always brought to me games that I tend to like while no one else really does or even knows about. I will just have to see how this is going to do.

Wii and PS2.....Thats not good. Looks like another PS2 port for wii. -_-

Anyone wanna speculate how this will use Wiimote functionality?

quote Halo "..suicide..". Now lets see how many ways the characters can meet their doom. Could have sworn i've played something with a similar theme before....hmmm...Flatout?..no...rrrg cant recall. Oh well sounds fun.

Yay more PS2 to Wii ports. AWESOME! I'm so psyched about this game!

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I'm in...Atlus has an odd way of bringing the world of wierd to life and doing a pretty good job of it.

Atlus Japan makes a lot of games. Atlus US is purely a publisher. it seems a lot of people still don't realize that not all publishers use their main publishing name for everything. Sega, Nintendo, Atlus, Namco, Capcom; its a pretty common practice to divide your development force into separate studios, and allow them semi-autonomy and let them adopt their own names. despite doing this, the publisher still wholly owns the studio and thus (in this case) Atlus still developed it, its just organized under several layers of names, but its all Atlus. S-E simply adopts the other approach of using their main publishing name for everything (partly because they mix up most of their teams after a given game is finished thus generally not creating any permanent internal studios)

Yay I love Atlus, I just wish they were more involved in cool SHMUPS like they used to be...those are my all time fave.

looks interesting...time to search for that ps2, where was it?

ha, its nice. like Japans

i just check the website of this game and it looks pretty good. << LINK REMOVED >>

Again my faith in video games restored by Atlus.

Sounds interesting although I'm not a big fan of dungeon crawlers or extremely difficult games. However the story sounds interesting so I'll be watching this game.

May have to dust off and plug the ol' PS2 back in for this one.

I will track this game.

Nice headline, Tom!

diablobasher: Atlus actually does develop their own games, this year alone they had Etrian Odyssey, Persona 3, and Trauma Center 2. Also, most of the other game's they have localized are also published by Atlus in Japan. Atlus USA isn't really bringing non-Atlus material into the mix. SquareEnix also uses 2nd/3rd party developers, for instance Heroes of Mana and FFXII: Reverent Wings are not developed by SquareEnix. In fact, throughout this year, the titles developed by SquareEnix were either ports or remakes...FF1,2,Tactics(PSP), and Front Mission(DS). I guess they did develop Dawn of Mana... As you can see, Atlus has developed 3 great (NEW) games this year, while SquareEnix has only developed 1 mediocre (NEW) game, with a bunch of rereleases.

Bout time the Wii saw some RPGs.

glitch: Yeah but the difference being Square actually make their games. Atlus dont. Atlus is more akin to Funimation than to Squaresoft. They started out by doing atrociously bad localised versions of Shin Megami Tensei and other JRPG games, until people started complaining, and they eventually started putting effort in. They are now one of the best sources of getting Japanese games to these shores, but 2 problems still remain, months after release Atlus games are like gold dust to find. And there needs to be more publishers like Atlus.

Sounds interesting. Atlus has honestly become one of the best RPG publishers around in my opinion, especially when considered with the likes of Square. Still, I'm going to reserve my opinions on this one until more info surfaces. What I would want is for them to bring Super Robot Taisen Original Generations for the PS2 to America.

Very curious about this one. Since I love Atlus I will always give them the benefit of the doubt, so I'll look into this one next February. I could use a good old RPG on my Wii.

Interesting.

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I'm intrigued.

Sounds promising

I tell you, Atlus is one of the greatest publishers/developers out there. Thank goodness they are still around.

not saying that it will suck. and i think the wii does need some rpgs...but why can't they do something original for the wii?

oooh a wii/ps2 game. automatic win! (the previous statement was completely sarcastic...what i really mean is automatic fail!)

Actually Baroque was a game originally released for the Sega Saturn only in Japan. I played the import PS2 version for a short period of time, and i was completely lost, since the game requires knowledge of the japanese language.

This is a clone. They already came out with a game where you endlessly get killed. Its called DMC3. Thats pretty messed up making a game that lets you get stronger by dieing. It sounds like they totally fubared the difficulty and programming and instead of trying to fix it they came up with a way to exploit it.. With that stupid name I doubt my local rental place will have it and i sure as heck am not spending my money to buy it.

Baroque? Wasn't that a time period a few hundred years ago?

wytefang.. that's a good one.. :P looks nice... i haven't played any of atlus's rpg.. (well i did but didn't finish it eheheh) but maybe i'll give this a shot.. gonna go home and finish my persona3, though..

Atlus = New Square(Soft)

Atlus RPGs= good Keep 'em coming.

This is just what the Wii needs: more gritty games leaned towards core gamers. Not that it doesn't have any, just that the more the better, and this game already looks very promising.

Watched the trailer, and it reminded me a bit of Persona 3, specially in the art style, and, of course, in the random phrases that appeared during it. So, as of now, it's a must-play. I hope it delivers

well, it's good to know most developers haven't given up on formatting their games to play on the PS2, and it actually makes more sense since there are like 20 times more PS2s than PS3s

Yes, but will the game involve a hoedown? A BEAR WITH A HONEYPOT STUCK ON ITS HEAD A LARGE GREEN HIPPO.......