...Famimaga Weekly, this week, checks out the progress of Saga Frontier with photos of some stunning looking locales and craft designs. Sequence shots also show off character attacks as they wield magic, thrust, and parry. A Bushido Blade feature covers attack combos and defensive moves along with pictures of the different areas that you will engage and fight your pursuers in. For the current Final Fantasy IV re-release, a long article talks to it's creators at Square. Its a slap in the face, that with the seeming abandonment of Nintendo, Square takes one of the most treasured and revered Final Fantasy games on a Nintendo machine (SFC) and transplants it on the Playstation. A quick browse through the rest of the magazine ferrets out the following: Gowkaizer, a Neo-Geo fighting game will make it to the Playstation sometime in the next 2 weeks and Umihara Kawase (released already) is excellent and easily surpasses the SFC version. Umihara is a platform game where you control a little stout girl who can climb, duck, and throw out a grappling hook that she can use to grab enemy goldfish that are conspicuouly out of their natural element and walking about. The grappling hook can also be used to latch onto walls and platforms to swing to other platforms. The grappling hook can also be used to perform other tricks that you will learn about through animations that play before each level. Therein lies the beauty of the game and the great playability it offers. Umihara is currently sold out but NCS should have restock in the next two ot three weeks.
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