sounds awesome, I hope OPM has a demo of it soon

Will OPM even be around that much longer? Ziff Davis just announced that they ended their deal with Sony.

I just got a demo of it in the mail on Friday. It's not too bad, nothing mind blowing in my opinion but it's solid. To me it was basically Skies of Arcadia in space and Dark Cloud 2. I hated the fact that the demo was timed, I was in the middle of a boss fight and it just ends. One thing that did bug me were the so called 'live chat' where characters spout off one-liners that are supposed to help you. That's great except they would often say things that are completely irrelevant to the situation at hand. It just became more annoying than useful.

The demo also included a trailer which piqued my interest. I've grown weary of Japanese RPGs in that they are the same cookie cutter formula when it comes to story and don't offer much in character development or plot driven stories. I like the idea of exploring the universe, though I hate the fact that the space craft are litteraly sea craft that just fly. Unfuckingoriginal.

I'll probably pick this up when it comes out, I don't expect much from it. It'll be a solid game, but not something to jizz your pants over.

Oh yeah, the demo came with a pirate flag that looks pretty cool and a poster too.

Played the demo. I really hope they include widescreen in the final version of the game because it looks terrible if stretched.

how can I get the demo??

Ask for it at your local gamestop/eb games. The employee there will probably bug you to reserve it along with other titles, but they should have it.

Holy crap, I'll have to stop by there tomorrow. I've been waiting eagerly for Rogue Galaxy since it was announced, and honestly the description of Skies of Arcadia meets Dark Cloud 2 is exactly what I was hoping for.

http://rpgland.com/games/roguegalaxy...interview.html
Rest of the interview.

Higo totally dodged the next-to-last question, though.

So does this game have a more precise release date than "January 2007" by now? I'm dying to know when this will be out.

January 31st it should be in stores.

US will have it around 30/31 January, and Europe will have it sometime around 26 June 2007.

Only 6 months more months to wait. :(

I guarantee you that the sales will be in the toilet T__T They have dawdled waaaaay too long with the US cleaning up.

Sales figures don't mean squat to me as long I get to play the game. =( Apparently they've fixed this game up considerably from the japanese release.

Have they unveiled the US cover art for the game yet? All the online stores still the have the Peter Pan-esque Japanese cover. Or they going to use that one?

I just finished playing the demo, and this absolutely ruined it for me. I love the battle system and the game looks stunning, but this just annoys me to no end. I REALLY hope there is an option to turn this off in the retail game, because if not I think I'm going to pass on this one. Call me nuts, but I just did not care for this at all.

The "Peter Pan" cover was the one on the official demo sent to PS Underground, given out at stores, and sent to previewers, so it seems to be the one they're going for. Also, hot avatar.

After playing the demo for a while, I have mixed feelings about the game. First of all, the random comments from your characters and the "Jester!" shouts whenever they offer their combos are plain annoying. I can't see myself playing through the entire game with this constant blabbering going on. You know that it's going to drive you insane at one point when it's already annoying in a short demo.

Another thing I noticed are the extremely low frame rates especially during battles. Sure, the graphics are pretty nice (though they still pale in comparison to Final Fantasy XII), but they seem to come at the cost of fluid animations.

The "Peter Pan" cover was an observation mostly from a friend and I have no major qualm about it mostly haha. I assume there will be an option to turn off voices in battle even if its not included in the demo. As I can't imagine this being a dungeon crawler with hundreds of battles they'd want to piss off gamers to quit halfway through. Less than a month away!

http://www.gamestop.com/common/images/lbox/281546b.jpg

Final US cover art. No complaints~

Not surprised by it. That's what the demo came in too.

See also in this department: XS Games/Jack of All Games and their handling of the Red Star adaptation. The release date keeps sliding... first it was August, then September, then... repeat until you get to the current value of 'early Febuary. And for more fun, they don't even have the decency (or cojones?) to answer inquiries as to WTF is going on. Never mind that the game was practically done when its original handlers, Akklaim, folded up...
That said, Rogue Galaxy sounds like it'll be worth checking out; I hope it'll be worth the wait.

YouTube Video

This video shows off a bunch of features of the game. Maybe it'll help gain some interest out of some people who are still questioning what this game is like.

Wow, that looks awesome :D I was gonna pick this up anyways, but now I"m even more excited.

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/929240.asp

Reviews on this are looking good so far. The lowest rating so far is by EGM (not surprising since they only rate popular game franchises high). The most common complaints with the game are copy and paste dungeon designs and the combat system not having enough to it. I'm guessing they were spoiled by the gambit system in Final MMORPG 12. Otherwise, this game only shows that the ps2 is still going strong!

I can't wait for the release date.

Yeah, for all the bitching that surrounded the announcement of the gambit system and fears of an automated FF, people seem to like it quite a bit. It simply got rid of a lot of the tedium that made leveling/exploring a chore.

As for RG, it jumped 5% since the last time I checked gamerankings for it. I saw some videos of the gameplay/intro of the game and it definitely piqued my interest. Got a strong Dark Cloud 2 vibe from it, and IMO, that's a very good thing since that was one of my favorite games of this gen.

BTW, anyone know how much this will cost? I heard it'll be $39.99, and that's a steal just like Okami was, if true.