This fantastic hybrid role-playing game will pull you in with its thrilling story and keep you coming back for more.

Score: 9.0 / superb

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Nintendo teases us with a short trailer for the upcoming role-playing game sequel.

Golden Sun for the Game Boy Advance and its sequel offered some of the finest role playing available for the system. Today, Nintendo announced Golden Sun DS at its E3 2009 press conference and showed off some unmercifully brief footage in trailer form. Even though we know next to nothing about this upcoming role-playing game, we were still excited to get glimpses of what we can look forward to when it is released.

The trailer showed various quick-cutting scenes and began as the camera panned across the landscape. The Sun Rises Again splashed across the screen, and we saw glimpses of crystal-infused mountains, as well as dragons fighting across the Nintendo DS’s multiple screens. In another moment, a female character flew through the skies on a gleaming winged horse while bright arrows rained down from above. Could there be a dragon versus Pegasus battle in the works? We can only hope!

We’ll have to wait awhile before Golden Sun DS arrives on store shelves: It will be released in 2010. Until then, Nintendo Games Center will bring you information on this welcome sequel for the Nintendo DS as it becomes available.

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Nintendo shows off a trailer of the upcoming Square Enix role-playing game for the DS.

Today at E3 2009, the president of Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aime, announced a list of role-playing games that were heading to Nintendo’s consoles. One of them was Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, a game that we’ve seen previously at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show. We had a look at a short new trailer.

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We get another look at Spore’s migration to an action role-playing game on the Nintendo Wii.

At another Electronic Arts event, this time down in Los Angeles, we got another opportunity to check out Spore Hero for the Nintendo Wii. This is an entirely new game built specifically for the Wii, in which you’ll play as a hero that is destined to save the planet. The easy-to-use creature creator is included, of course, so you can customize and evolve your creature as the game goes on. The story unfolds as you help the locals by completing a variety of quests, which will also earn you new parts. We had previously gotten a glimpse of the new planet that our hero had landed on, but this time we were given a tour of the beautiful underground area called the Bioluminescent Forest. We couldn’t actually play the game, but we watched as our hero picked delectable moon fruit from vines and continued to evolve with the body parts it acquired.

Customize and upgrade your hero.

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Korean MMORPG gets a portable offshoot for North American release this winter, courtesy of Xseed.

Mark those calenders. The end of the world is coming this winter, and import house Xseed Games is to blame.

Destroying the world, one loathsome beetle at a time.

The publisher today announced that it is prepping Ragnarok Online DS for release later this year in North America. Based on the Korean massively multiplayer online role-playing game Ragnarok Online, the Nintendo DS spin-off will allow up to three players to journey together through randomly generated levels in search of loot.

As in the PC edition of the game, player customization will be a point of emphasis in Ragnarok Online DS, with players able to upgrade armor and weapons either by paying a blacksmith to work on them or by attaching “effect cards” that can be picked up from defeated enemies. Players also earn points for defeating enemies, which can be used to pump up their stats in a variety of job classes, including swordsman, thief, and merchant.

Ragnarok Online DS is being developed by GungHo, maker of PSP games Zero Choaniki and Lunar: Harmony of Silver Star.

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