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I heard similarly awesome things about the game, and I might look into it, but I have so much to play right now. On the other hand, I finally got back into Suikoden V again, after a 5 month hiatus, so there's that to beat on top of the other billion games on my queue. There just aren't enough hours in the day. V_V

I picked it up because I had a suspicion that it would be impossible to find in a few months.
Very, VERY few people I know picked it up...

Of course, I haven't had time to play it yet, I'm still obsessing over Valkyrie Profile 2 ;D

Yeah, back when I worked for EB, my manager and I used to joke that it felt like Atlus knew their target audience down pat.

That is, they printed enough copies for their hardcore fans and that was it.

Examples I can think of would be Tactics Ogre (except for that one KB Toys in Orlando that has a dozen new ones) Brigadine (did anyone play this game?  I hated it, but it goes for @ $100 on eBay now) Rhapsody, and so on.

Thought it felt like Magna Carta had more than enough printed, not like I mind, I love the game.

Back O.T. though, how does Raidou play?  Is it back to you an your party of demons, like SMT:N?  I liked the OST, but I have to say I like the composer who did the Persona series, rather than Raidou or DDS.

I'm going to get it too, but I don't know when I'll get to it as I'm getting FFXII tomorrow, and I'm (trying) to play Phantasy Star Universe.  The 360 servers must be overloaded as I can't seem to connect. 

Regarding other MegaTen games, does anyone remember why Atlus never published the original Devil Summoner, on the PS1 (or the port to the PSP) or Soul Hackers, or even Persona 2: Innocent Sin?  I can't remember for the life of me. 

Perceived lack of interest...There were petitions and stuff going around for (especially) Soul Hackers, but nothing ever came of it. I'm amazed we got SMT: Nocturne, then the DDS and Raidou after it, since they've been so stingy in the past.

I believe we're seeing them now because there's more of a "race" to establish RPG series': see Nippon Ichi and the Atelier games, which were also ignored in the PS1 era, the recent Tales games (the series had a minor impact in the RPG market before, but we actually got 2 this year...and I think the localized ToP for GBA was a 2006 release as well) and also Konami adding Ys to its' repetoire and continuing to localize Suikoden games, despite neither making much of a dent in the market. Atlus could do a lot worse for itself than to make the Megaten series its' posterchild (in the same way Final Fantasy/DQ is Square Enix's).

My regret is too much got released too fast...The last two years, the RPG market has been TOO bountiful and there's simply too much to get to...Especially if one has a tendancy to procrastinate with games. I remember being completely juiced that SMT:N was coming out, but I had both Star Ocean 3 and Phantom Brave on my plate as well (all were released in a similar timeframe), then Growlanser Generations, then Ys VI, then Atelier Iris 1 and it gets kinda ridiculous. A few years ago, I think I'd have been all over Raidou, but no way I can justify another game in "the line" right now. It's definitely a good thing (I definitely don't miss the NES/SNES days, where we got maybe 1 good RPG per year), but it requires time management skills to get to everything you want to. And uh...time. That helps.

Now if we could just see the rest of those Growlanser and Summon Night games... ;_;

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Shoji Meguro seems to be sticking close to those Chuck Mangione horns after what's been presented on Raidou. I think that jazzy style worked a whole lot better with Persona 3 as it seems he's spent more time honing his compositions a little more, advanced beyond the Marvel Vs Capcom 2 style interludes from Raidou Vs. The Army... OST.