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Square Enix mistakenly breaks exclusive DLC contract in Japan
If Japanese fans of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 want to play through the game brandishing the flowers of Final Fantasy 7's Aerith, they'll need to purchase the V Jump strategy guide that Square Enix has exclusively bundled the DLC with. At least, that's the case now - the costume had appeared for sale days ago alongside non-exclusive costumes of FF7's Cloud and Final Fantasy 10's Yuna. The DLC was pulled on December 20, inspiring a tweeted apology to fans anticipating the costume and to Shueisha, the publisher of the strategy guide. The apology noted that the Cloud and Yuna outfits would return to the store that day, but did not mention continued availability for the Aerith costume outside of purchasing V Jump guide. As frustrating as keeping track of exclusive pieces of DLC can be for consumers, it's interesting to see confusion like this on the publisher's side of things.
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 revealed, goes multiplatform
Namco Bandai is unsurprisingly working on a sequel to Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm. Revealed in the latest issue of V-Jump, the sequel will take place right where the first game left off, at the beginning of the Shippuden series. Not only will the cast of characters be older in the sequel, Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 is promising some big new features, primarily 4-player support and a multiplatform release. Yep, unlike the first game, Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 will be released on both PS3 and Xbox 360. Details are slim at the moment, but with a planned 2010 release in Japan, we'll undoubtedly find out more soon. So long as CyberConnect 2 can expand on the game's depth while keeping its good looks, anime fans will want to keep an eye out for this one. [Thanks Fidoboy17; Via Siliconera]%Gallery-20737%
Square Enix's 'Cross Treasures' influenced by V-Jump reader feedback
Square Enix and V-Jump magazine have revealed a collaborative DS RPG called Cross Treasures. The game has character art from Shinya Suzuki, artist for the Jump-featured "Mr. Fullswing," and elements of the game are actually being designed based on feedback from V-Jump readers. This is presumably the Square Enix/V-Jump project teased back in April.According to Siliconera, Cross Treasures has a unique networking mode, in which players design "his or her game world" and share it with up to three others, in addition to fighting monsters in multiplayer.net. "Your custom world is also connected to worlds made by your friends resulting in a Cross Treasures multiverse."
Square Enix teams with V Jump mag on 'epic' project
Japanese isn't exactly our strong suit here at Joystiq, though one intrepid staffer has the ability to make those crazy shapes interpretable. And he's explained that the teaser for next month's issue of J-mag V Jump has some enticingly vague information about an upcoming collaboration between the magazine and publisher Square Enix. Out of the six lines of indecipherable glyphs (to our gaijin eyes, at least), he gleaned this gem: "Together with Square Enix, we're producing the next generation epic 'Project V!' Could your ideas become reality!?" For clarity's sake, the snippet isn't referring to that other Project V.We're not quite sure our ideas will become reality, but we suspect we'll at least find out more about the partnership in next month's issue. (And if you're one of those people with the amazing ability to read Japanese, you'll want to head over to the magazine's website and look out for the symbol you see on the right.)[Via 1UP]
Valkyrie Profile scans profile in-game characters
A pair of new scans for Valkyrie Profile have surfaced on the net. Coming from Japanese mag V-Jump, the scans are chock full of goodies from the game. We've got a look at some of the title's characters, which you can see above in the cropped image, as well as some very nice in-game screenshots. It's pretty much become par for the course. Now let's just hope we actually have a chance of getting the game outside of Japan.
Namco Bandai throws Dragon Ball onto the DS
Recent V-Jump scans reveal that a Dragon Ball game is in the works for the DS. While we don't have many details on the game, it's going to be an action/adventure title that delves into the background of the Dragon Ball saga. We also know that the controls will be similar to those in The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, as the player will use the stylus to perform actions and lead Goku around the screen. From what we saw in the tiny scan screens, the game looks to be shaping up pretty nicely. We've never been too into Dragon Ball ourselves, but if we were, we'd be over 9,000 kinds of excited right now.
These Soma Bringer scans will energize you
Let's face it -- most of us didn't care much about Soma Bringer until we saw a plethora of awesome videos for the game last week. Now that Nintendo and Monolith Soft have gotten our attention, though, we can't get enough of it. Because of this, we were excited to see more Soma Bringer scans leaked around the internets. With a scan explosion to match last week's video explosion, these magazine pages show tons of art and screens for the game. They're definitely worth a look by anyone anticipating this title or hoping for localization. Check after the break for eight more of them.
NiGHTS: Journey of Scans
These latest pages of V-Jump on NiGHTS are really gorgeous ... but that's easy to pull off when most of the screens are captures from the opening video. But even the gameplay shots in these scans are lush and attractive. The game is getting closer all the time, and we can't help but wonder if opinions are still as split as they were back in April.
