New 360 RPG- Trusty Bell

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The Story

June 21, 2006 - On October 17, 1849, Frederic Chopin, one of the most influential composers for the piano, succumbed to sickness and died at the young age of 39.



Three hours prior to that, in the world according to Bandai Namco, Chopin, crouched on the floor of his hospital, saw a dream. The dream had anime characters that looked like they were out of a Tales game and a world that looked like it was pulled from a fairy tale. In the dream, people carried about their lives like in the real world. But in the dream world, people with incurable sicknesses had magical powers.

Bandai Namco\'s new Xbox 360 RPG, Trusty Bell: Chopin\'s Dream ("Chopin no Yume" for the Japanese version) takes place in this dream world. Chopin (yes, the composer) comes into contact with Polka, a young girl who resides with her mother in the village of Tenuto (the names, you\'ll find, are all musical terms). Polka is near her death, meaning she\'s got some crazy powers. Unfortunately, people believe that by touching her, they\'ll be infected with her koodies, so Polka\'s not particularly popular.

Trusty Bell is the story of Chopin (yes, the composer), Polka, and a Allegretto, a 16-year-old who steals to eat and lives for only one thing: to help Polka.

If Trusty Bell were called Tales of Something-or-other, no one would complain. The game has the absurd premise, peculiar names and colorful artwork of Namco\'s biggest RPG series. Plus, musical composition is being handled by Motoi Sakuraba, of Tales of fame.

Trusty Bell will also feature a battle system that\'s heavy on the action. Details are scarce, but based on the screenshots currently circling exclusively in Japan\'s Famitsu magazine, the battle system supports three characters (including an unknown male character called Beat) and features some sort of combo system. Allegretto makes use of a sword as his primary weapon while Polka, being a cheery girl character and all, resorts to an umbrella.

Music and story look like they will play a big part in Trusty Bell. Bandai Namco has drafted famous Japanese actor Leo Morimoto to perform narration for the game\'s Japanese version. Performing the piano numbers that Chopin left to the world (before having his RPG dream) will be Russian pianist Stanislav Bunin.

Trusty Bell is in development at tri-Crescendo, a studio that worked on the sound components of tri-Ace titles like Radiata Stories, Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile and also worked on programming, sound and the battle system for Baten Kaitos, along side Monolith Soft . The game is currently without a final release date in Japan.

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I love the art style.  It\'s beautiful.  The story...well, I\'m sure it will be interesting.

[Jumpman]

rpgs...

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I thought RPGs would become less linear as the hardware progressed but it looks like I was wrong.

The linearity of RPG\'s hasn\'t changed in decades, why would they change this generation?

I thought RPGs would become less linear as the hardware progressed but it looks like I was wrong.

Erm, I thought the whole point of an RPG is to tell a story...which requires some bit of direction...no?

I personally cannot stomach games that have this type of "cutesy" look.

it could be the greatest game in the world and I wouldn\'t be able to get past the artistic direction. This particualr RPG represents the style that turns me off of Japanese RPG\'s

[Living-In-Clip]

I personally cannot stomach games that have this type of "cutesy" look.

it could be the greatest game in the world and I wouldn\'t be able to get past the artistic direction. This particualr RPG represents the style that turns me off of Japanese RPG\'s

Thank you for sharing that.
Glad you refuse to play games, just because of a certain "look".
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rpgs...

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I thought you liked Zelda

Thank you for sharing that.
Glad you refuse to play games, just because of a certain "look".
:thumb:

There are 100\'s and even 1000\'s of games to play.  Even with that many games still available to me outside of Eastern RPG\'s, I still couldn\'t play 75% of the games I would want to. it is very easy to write off Eastern Styled RPG\'s for a mutitude of personal reasons, and it is very easy for me to fill that void with lots of other games that fit my style.

I find the art direction, and character design to be too cute, unexciting, and for lack of a better word... really lame. I can not identify with this style of game.  But Character design and art direction in Eastern Styled RPG\'s have always been a big turn off for me. If the game isn\'t going to draw me in and make me excited to play it then I\'ll move on to the next one.

I never said you couldn\'t play it or get excited about it though. Pleasse feel free. I was just putting out feelers to see who agrees with my point of view in regards to the art style and Eastern styled RPG\'s.

they should change the name to "Gay - the gay RPG"

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I forgot - as male gamers it\'d be "gay" to play a game with bright colors.

-shrugs-

Either way, I like the art direction. The gameplay may suck, but the art direction is nice.

better check and make sure your penis hasn\'t turned into a vagina

better check and make sure your penis hasn\'t turned into a vagina

Troll

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better check and make sure your penis hasn\'t turned into a vagina

Your trolling has reached an all time low.

Go back to playing games that lack any art direction what so ever, other than the typical "modern, black and grey look". Me, I\'ll play whatever seems appealing and this, seems appealing. The art looks a lot like Kolona 2, which rocked.

i thought it was funny
/shrug
(the game still looks gay and would me feel uncomfortable to play it)

wtf is Kolona 2?
aren\'t you tired of platformers, btw?