Koei developing Wii RPG

is this another pikman?

Opoona! Looks good!

I want Dynasty Warriors for the wii but i will take whatever they can create. Koei is a great Game Dev company

I have all 3 systems. I have TP for wii, and that is the only title that remotely was good. I go to the store and all I see are garbage mimik games for wii, and this just seems to be another one of those titles. I know nintendo is all about the kiddsie cutesy fun thing, but it is lost its place in my heart. I want to play something with depth, something with a decent story. Something that I can sit down and play for hours and hours. I want a good decent RPG. I am not interested in cooking mama, or Wiidogs or whatever little gimmik title they are going to release. just doesn't interest me

Dragon Quest 7 developers...

Looks weird, but kind of interesting at the same time.

dragon quest 8 is probably the best rpg ever so i will give it a shot

Ok i read the whole thing and itook a look at the screens and i still don't know what the heck this thing is but hey....Nintendo being doin things right for over 20 years.

if it is online, ill give it a chance

I agree with rexCo, give it a shot, you will be suprised how many Wii games are under-estimated!

Hey dcgames, have you played any yet? They're not all stupid or "ridiculous". Granted, many to date have been.. not that great, but there's some solid games out for the Wii, some great games (DBZBT2, Zelda), and the future looks bright.

Everyone rushes to get out games when a console first comes out and nine times out of ten they are crap games. This is one of the reasons I haven't even went looking for a Wii yet - let them get all the stupid, ridiculous games out of the way first.

Is it online? :o

The sole reason I'm interested in this game is the music composer, Hitoshi Sakimoto, of FFXII and FFTactics fame.

Well ya but.....Koei is one of the worst developers alive...

I'm interested in this game. I like the artstyle in it. And I'm interested in the whole having to have a job thing. I also know that the battle system is completely controlled through by the sensors in the nunchuk. You basically throw the nunchuk for them to throw their energy bon bon.

Energy Bonbons? ... Don't say that I'm judging a book by it's cover, but.... that single phrase has officially stopped me from ever considering this game for purchase.

With a game like DQVII under their belts this has the potential to be a great game :D

Are japanese people crazy? Football with machine guns? Energy candy delights? What the crap?

I'm glad companies are trying something *new* as opposed to trying to rehash the same old tripe that's been created. Kudos to them. And those preliminary drawings are phenomenal.

Good to see lots of healthy support for the Wii.

man i LOVE those illustrations of the characters..... hope it turns out well!

Art style for this game looks great. That alone makes me excited about this game. Hopefully it has some good gameplay.

Ugh, is the sword toting, black magic casting, turn based RPG style dead?

I find the phrase "Energy Bonbons" vastly amusing for some reason.

Sounds pretty unique, hopefully it ends up worth purchasing... and that they actually bring it the U.S.

That's sounds kinda wierd.

Sweet its good to see Koei doing something new besides releasing the same game over and over with a different numeral next to it. I like Dynasty Warriors but I would like a difference between the sequels.

It doesn't sound particularly compelling but then again neither did Animal Crossing and that ended up being the video game equivalent of crack.

Great another kiddy adventure :(

Sounds kinda cool, Lets see what it develops into : )

Not sure about this one.

Sim Inspired. But oh, well? Whats new now a days?

it looks kinda cool. i think i might wanna play it.

sounds a bit like the sims

Sounds interesting. Hope to see it shipping in other parts of the world as well.

Looks pretty cool, I'll check it out.

The game doesn't look that good...I mean just look at that screenshot.

Arte Piazza's Dragon Quest V Reprise for PS2 seemed awesome (a shame it never made it out of Japan), therefore I'm very much looking forward to seeing that same developer try out their own original concepts like they seem to be doing here with Opoona. Dragon Quest father Yuji Horii, although not involved with Opoona's development, was also at this press conference. Seems like Opoona was in the works before Arte Piazza found a publisher, not the other way around like this article suggests, and Horii managed to hook up his pals at Arte Piazza with Koei. Anyways, the conference video showed off some interesting stuff for the battles in this game, what with the way multiple enemy targeting and energy charging seem to be utilized together. Despite the initial awkward looking style, there seems to be more to this game than it appears...

oh god

And again Gamespot is about 3 days late with info. On another, on topic note...this game doesnt impress me so far.

If the writing is funny and the enemies and locations are varied enough, this could well be a success, at least with the Earthbound/Animal Crossing crowd. I'm more excited about this than all the other predictable RPG's on the horizon (Blue Dragon for one)

Did anybody find it wierd that the article had to specify that Landroll is a fictonal planet? I mean we should know that already, right?

bonbons? BONBONS?!?! y bonbons?

I've also seen the youtube video and although its in Japanese it 'looks' to me to be merely conventional. I'm surprised Koei sponsored its dev.

Please, Square-Enix... give us a Final Fantasy...

bonbon battles? i have a feeling this one's not coming stateside.(that's probably a good thing)

Gameplay centered around throwing bonbons at things? I'm in! (kind of...)

Im gonna have to wait and see how this one comes along, interesting concept, but its no Final Fantasy (obviously) Bring it on, along with Dragon Quest and FFCC

I'd take an rpg for my wii from anybody but koei...