[Max]

It appears the official site for GS:DD is live in Japan: http://www.nintendo....bo5j/index.html

If we have any Japanese readers, please feel free to share translations. The site does not contain any new info, and just includes the video from yesterday and some art from New Vale. 2010 is still listed as the release date, which could mean it will come out in Japan first this holiday season, and elsewhere next year.

[Toasty]

The first part of the movie is pretty cool. I was disappointed, but unsurprised, that the other half of it was just in-game footage. Not that it's bad, but when it started out like it did, I just kind of expected something like the KH:BBS trailer that Square made.

Though at least the footage was mostly new. Looks like the fourth party member is a female mercury adept.

[Moonear]

Toasty, on Aug 19 2010, 09:00 PM, said:

The first part of the movie is pretty cool. I was disappointed, but unsurprised, that the other half of it was just in-game footage. Not that it's bad, but when it started out like it did, I just kind of expected something like the KH:BBS trailer that Square made.

Though at least the footage was mostly new. Looks like the fourth party member is a female mercury adept.

Can you translate anything for us based on your grasp of Japanese, for instance, whatever it says when you click on "World View"?

[Toasty]

The written language is much harder to learn, solely because it's hard for me to associate the characters with a specific sound. But if I convert the Katakana and Hiragana to Romaji, then I might be able to make some of it out.

Not promising anything though.

[EDIT]

First line reads "The four Elements [Earth] [Water] [Fire] [Wind]"

The underlined part is "erementaru" which is the Japanese pronunciation of "element(s)". The first character in brackets isn't something I recognize, but I'm assuming it means earth, or something similar.

The window that pops up from the underlined text has too much kanji for me to translate. Kanji is used both in Japan and China, and is a whole lot more complicated since each symbol represents a thing, rather than a sound.

[EDIT 2]

I'm having the same problem with the other lines. All I can make out is that it mentions the elements two more times. I'm going to take a wild guess and say that this is just the back story from the previous two games with a tiny tidbit of new info (i.e. it ends with "and now vortexes are popping up and sucking everything into an endless void" or something).


I can read romaji, and I've got two sheets of paper which I can use to convert Hiragana and Katakana into Romaji, but I don't have anything like that for Kanji. Besides, if I did, it'd probably be a book with a few hundred pages. :\

[Laatokka]

http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/...le.php?id=17004

This is few months late, but at least it confirms that release date 2010 is not only speculation but been confirmed by Nintendo itself...

"The latest Nintendo release schedule confirms that Golden Sun DS will be released in the UK in 2010." Friday 7-May-2010 9:38 AM

[Matdamon]

Good luck with the translating Toasty, I should get my Japanese teacher to have a look at it. Just watching the video on the website and all the environments look amazing. No DS game that I have seen comes close. The extra thigs Camelot put in the game like the camera zooming in at certain spots is awesome. Hopefully the website continues to get larger as the game approaches release.

It had better not have a delayed release in Australia, if so I'm buying the US or UK version. Hope it comes out before the end of the year as thats when my holidays start.

Wonder if we are gonna get an official English website in the coming months.

PS could listen to that song for hours!

[ThankMeLater]

I share your enthusiasm, but it's a little drastic to say that GSDS has the best looking enviroments of any DS game.

[Mallick]

ThankMeLater, on Aug 20 2010, 06:42 PM, said:

I share your enthusiasm, but it's a little drastic to say that GSDS has the best looking enviroments of any DS game.

We're talking about the DS here..

[ThankMeLater]

Off the top of my head, Metroid Prime Hunters and Kingdom Hearts both look better. And to be honest, the game doesn't look that amazing. It's alright, and a huge step up from the originals, but I think the fanboyism is blinding a few people.

[Toasty]

I find these environments to be better than the ones in Metroid Prime Hunters. Though I won't deny that the environments in MPH look very nice.

I can't say anything for KH:358/2 though. Haven't played that game yet.


But personally, I'm just really impressed with the music. I think they could've done something different with the intro to the main theme though. It seems too cheesy. I got the same feeling when listening to some of the music in the new Kid Icarus game.

[Matdamon]

Yeah Metroid Prime hunters did look pretty good but it is a different look as its first person. I personally didn't really get into KH, not sure why first missions just annoyed me and i never played the other games.

But yeah the fanboyism is playing a big part. GS was the first game I played and thus is the game I compare everthing to. Compared to every other role playing game I can think of on the DS GS is the best looking, but it's art style is one that I prefer over most others such as Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy or Pokemon.

[Golden Legacy]

Art style =/= Technical graphics

Overall, the trailer got me excited. A new chapter in the Golden Sun storyline based on the same battle system we know and love, and the new psynergy abilities outside of battle look to make for some great puzzles.

Late 2010 (2011?) can't come soon enough.

[Mallick]

ThankMeLater, on Aug 20 2010, 07:16 PM, said:

Off the top of my head, Metroid Prime Hunters and Kingdom Hearts both look better. And to be honest, the game doesn't look that amazing. It's alright, and a huge step up from the originals, but I think the fanboyism is blinding a few people.

I agree. That said, we're talking about the DS here..


MPH disagree. I've not touched the Kingdom Hearts for DS though.

[TheEnglishman]

I always though MPH looked a bit ugly, but I guess it would do compared to the Gamecube games.

[Matdamon]

Was just looking around some other networks and stuff and found some scanned pages with some cool pics from a japanese magazine. Even some translations to go with them and a world map. Found them at Golden Sun Realm. All credit to them for the finds.

[Moonear]

Matdamon, on Aug 23 2010, 06:11 AM, said:

Was just looking around some other networks and stuff and found some scanned pages with some cool pics from a japanese magazine. Even some translations to go with them and a world map. Found them at Golden Sun Realm. All credit to them for the finds.

Links?

[Someone Else]

Do you guys not like the art style or do you think the graphics are "technically" underwhelming? Because if it's the former, the art style looks basically the same as the first two. Personally, I think it looks incredibly charming and pleasing to the eye. If it's the latter, well, this is an RPG. RPGs almost never have the most technically proficient graphics because (A) RPGs have a larger scale and more objects on the screen than, say, FPSs so detail needs to be whittled down to compensate and (B) RPG developers tend to be small and not to have the largest budget, so their games always lack production values (Camelot is one of these) and with the DS, your game can only be so technically proficient anyway.

I dunno, I'd wager to say this is one of the best looking DS games, but then maybe I wouldn't know since probably most of the DS games I have used 2D graphics anyway.

[ThankMeLater]

The latter.

[Matdamon]

Golden Sun Realm

Check out the pic about half way down the page with the map of weyard. Looks like we will only be exploring Angara. Looks pretty sick though. I personally wasn't hoping for any more with the graphics as I realize how underpowered the DS is. And I too love the art style, and I still think the graphics are better than that of KH.

[Toasty]

Sweet, looks like what part of the japanese text I translated was right.

Anyway, I don't see why we'd be stuck in Angara. I see nothing to suggest anything of the sort.

As for the graphics, I would've liked to see something with more polygons, but the DS isn't exactly a powerful system, and Camelot isn't exactly rich either.

[Matdamon]

If you look at the Map the only part that has any detail is Angara. It reminds me of the first game where we had a map of the whole of Weyard but only Angara and Gondowa(?) were detailed.

[Ironsight]

Matdamon, on Aug 23 2010, 03:06 PM, said:

Looks like we will only be exploring Angara.

I'm ok with this. Angara is/was a huge continent.

[ThankMeLater]

Plus there's probably going to be a natural disaster or somethnig to that effect that changes the lay of the land.

[Toasty]

Matdamon, on Aug 24 2010, 05:49 PM, said:

If you look at the Map the only part that has any detail is Angara. It reminds me of the first game where we had a map of the whole of Weyard but only Angara and Gondowa(?) were detailed.

I highly doubt that's the whole map, and I see no reason, now that the whole of Weyard has been explored and civilizations are expanding, that we would be limited to Angara.

Unless they plan on making a sequel to DD. =OOO

[Matdamon]

Toasty, on Aug 25 2010, 12:37 PM, said:

I highly doubt that's the whole map, and I see no reason, now that the whole of Weyard has been explored and civilizations are expanding, that we would be limited to Angara.

Unless they plan on making a sequel to DD. =OOO

I hope you're right, but i just can't believe that the game will be that big. If you could explore most or even all of Weyard the game could get freakn huge and I doubt that Camelot have put that much time into it.

You mentioning a sequel reminded me of a link i saw on GS realm. Translated Interview Thingy
The Head of Camelot Hiroyuki says "the first two games are prologues of this series. From this game on, it's the main story." Might be error in translation but its been bugging me ever since i read it.