Atlus announces Baroque

Kudgel
Thursday, December 13, 2007 | 6:55 AM
12 comments

Wii PS2

Fans of dungeon-crawling RPGs will be pleased to learn the development of a videogame called Baroque by Atlus. Defined as hardcore, it is awaited for the Playstation 2 and Nintendo Wii systems in February 2008 (North America). Its official website just went live with the very first screenshots from the PS2 build. This production rymes with dark fantasy and metaphysic monsters. It's promising and gives me Shin Megami Tensei flashbacks.

Trailer is online

http://www.atlus.com/baroque

18 PS2 Images

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munkieNS

Commented on 2007-12-12 23:51:41

Mmmm, the Shin Megami Tensei series on the PS2 was fantastic, very original and enjoyable. I'm liking the style of this, as it's got a familiar feel while still retaining a wholly original style. It actually almost reminds me of Gungrave (the art style).

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Jigen

Commented on 2007-12-13 01:12:39

So if this is hardcore, what's Nethack?

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Kudgel

Commented on 2007-12-13 01:30:33 In reply to Jigen

Posted by Jigen

So if this is hardcore, what's Nethack?

Infernal sadomasochism

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Jigen

Commented on 2007-12-13 01:34:04 In reply to Kudgel

Posted by Kudgel

Infernal sadomasochism

Sounds about right actually.

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Jollipop

Commented on 2007-12-13 01:51:13

Looks ok, about time Atlus jumped on this generations console though.

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synce

Commented on 2007-12-13 04:35:31

Atlus' definition of hardcore is grinding. I think I'll pass.

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noxian

Commented on 2007-12-13 08:09:06

i think thats the definition of hardcore for any dungeoncrawler rpg (nevermind pretty much the basis of all their gameplay). don't like grinding you should probably pass on the subgenre as a whole, period.

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2PintsOfInsulin

Commented on 2007-12-13 09:28:28 In reply to Jollipop

Posted by Jollipop

Looks ok, about time Atlus jumped on this generations console though.

Then they'd have to up their skill-set!

:oP

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SimonM7

Commented on 2007-12-13 10:37:15

BAROQUE!

I always wanted to play this on Saturn (it's a saturn game originally and supposedly quite a good one at that) but the whole being in japanese thing put me off it.

I'll definitely pick it up if it comes out here.

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asphaltcowboy

Commented on 2007-12-13 11:40:27

Baroque n' Roll!

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Kudgel

Commented on 2007-12-13 13:56:59 In reply to asphaltcowboy

Posted by asphaltcowboy

Baroque n' Roll!

You're on a Baroquoll!

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roymustang

Commented on 2007-12-13 17:59:32

Played the PS1 port of the Saturn original back in the day, it was OK, hope they improved it somewhat.

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