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ASH media blowout: trailer, scans, and more!
For those of you who've been starving for more Archaic Sealed Heat media, we have a veritable feast for you to gorge on today, sumptuous meats piled atop each other, loaded plates threatening to slip off of the banquet table's edges. Above, we have Mistwalker's newest trailer for the SRPG mixing CG scenes with some in-game (!) combat. Past the post break, we've crammed the page with a Japanese commercial, more official video clips, and magazine pages scanned from the latest issue of V-Jump. Try not to choke while you consume these treats we've laid out for you.Read - Ash videosRead - Ash scans
ASH boxart seals the deal
It's fitting that one of the most beautiful games for the Nintendo DS receives the same attention to aesthetics with its Japanese packaging design. Even if we hadn't already seen Archaic Sealed Heat's gorgeous prerendered CG scenes, spotting a cover like this on a shelf would've compelled us to pick the box up and study the screenshots on its back.The posture and headdresses of the characters lined up in the background make us think of chess pieces, an apt comparison considering ASH's SRPG trappings. Now let's just hope that Nintendo of America keeps the same arrangement for the boxart when if it brings the game to the US.
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 to feature bastards
Six weeks away from the SRPG's release in Japan, Square Enix has offered a preview of job classes for the two new tribes in Final Fantasy Tactics A2: The Sealed Grimoire, the Seeq and Gria, the former being a race resembling portly pigs and originally appearing in Final Fantasy XII, and the latter of which are a humanoid feminine race with dragon-like characteristics.The Seeq's Raptor class has skills similar to the Knights' in Final Fantasy Tactics, while the Gria's Lunistas are able to trade HP to increase their critical hit chance. Both tribes also have a Bastard class which we assume to comprise of one of the following:
