What is Sega doing with their awesome stable of legendary IPs these days?

A new Shining Force just came out not that long ago(for the DS, Shining Force Feather, and goes back to its roots, which makes it all the more painful, that It's Japan only), but Sega is run by morons, and once again we are reminded, that there is no reason for there to be a Sega NA branch.

After I'm done with 7th Dragon(7th Dragon would've been brought over, if Sega didn't have exclusive publishing rights, everyone in the industry wanted to localize it, see a patern here), if there's a translation wiki for Shining Force Feather, I might have to import it(I loved the old Shining Force games).

Has anyone played the new Shinobi game for 3DS? Although it looks ugly from the videos it seems to be a return to the third game in terms of gameplay and moveset.

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Originally Posted by havok666

Has anyone played the new Shinobi game for 3DS? Although it looks ugly from the videos it seems to be a return to the third game in terms of gameplay and moveset.

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I played it. It does in fact play a lot like Shinobi III. There are some notable differences like you essentially have infinite kunai, you can throw up to 5 (or 6? I forget) and then they slowly recharge/respawn. It doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense logically but as far as gameplay goes it makes things a bit more fun. And no, it doesn't make the game super easy since a lot of the enemies can block them so you have to try to work them into a combo. Which brings me to - the combat is a little more combo focused than in the original Shinobi games, you have to string attacks together to dispose of most enemies, and since you use different buttons for sword and kunai attacks you can pull off some pretty creative ways to kill things. Overall it feels like a Shinobi game and it is a lot of fun. I played it for about an hour and it's got me thinking I might want to get a 3DS.

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Originally Posted by djshok

I played it. It does in fact play a lot like Shinobi III. There are some notable differences like you essentially have infinite kunai, you can throw up to 5 (or 6? I forget) and then they slowly recharge/respawn. It doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense logically but as far as gameplay goes it makes things a bit more fun. And no, it doesn't make the game super easy since a lot of the enemies can block them so you have to try to work them into a combo. Which brings me to - the combat is a little more combo focused than in the original Shinobi games, you have to string attacks together to dispose of most enemies, and since you use different buttons for sword and kunai attacks you can pull off some pretty creative ways to kill things. Overall it feels like a Shinobi game and it is a lot of fun. I played it for about an hour and it's got me thinking I might want to get a 3DS.

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Thanks for that overview. I may have to check out Shinobi 3DS now, it sounds fun from what you describe.

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Originally Posted by TrekkiesUnite118

EDIT:

sheath, I'm looking at the commercials for Legend of Dragoon now, I really don't see any relations to Panzer Dragoon Saga. It looks more like your typical Medieval RPG to me.

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Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking about. I just remember a commercial that only showed CGI cutscenes and remember thinking they were trying to play off of Panzer Dragoon.