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Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light

1. Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light

release date: october 2010. the reviews haven't been so great but I love me some simplistic, classic RPGs with job systems.

Hard Corps: Uprising

2. Hard Corps: Uprising

release date: late 2010. Contra being made by the Blazblue guys. it's adding air dashes and double jumps and life bars. it could be too dramatic a change to a series that lives and dies on its nostalgia and formula, but I'm really enjoying the change of pace. hopefully it's good, and there's really no reason for it to be bad. online co-op should help.

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

3. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

release date: january 2011. it's made by the Ace Attorney guy, but looks quite a bit different from the Phoenix Wright we're used to. Ace Attorney guy gives it some credibility so we'll see how this weird murder mystery turns out.

Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming

4. Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming

release date: November 2010 for Japan, unannounced for NA. the original is awesome. the sequel? it's going to be nothing but the RPG, which is a good thing. it's going to be bigger and better. it should be great. the only concern here is that it might get stale.

Bionic Commando Rearmed 2

5. Bionic Commando Rearmed 2

release date: spring 2011. this feels a little uninspired, but more BCR is a good thing. the jump button will be interesting. if they add online co-op, I'm sold.

Moon Diver

6. Moon Diver

release date: winter 2010, supposedly. Strider 3? sure looks like it. either way, it's a four player co-op beat em up kind of game. won't be as good as Castle Crashers but it doesn't need to be either.

BattleBlock Theater

7. BattleBlock Theater

release date: 2010. Castle Crashers is fun. this looks like more of the same but with more of a focus on co-op/competitive multiplayer instead of just being a single-player game that you can play effectively with four people. it doesn't look as intrinsically fun as Castle Crashers, but we'll see.

The 3rd Birthday

8. The 3rd Birthday

release date: probably early 2011 in NA. I'm not a huge fan of what they've shown lately on 3rd birthday; a lot of boring shooting without much of the atmosphere that made Parasite Eve good. I have faith though - I love high-end PSP RPGs and hopefully this has enough RPG left in it to make it good. it looks like Crisis Core to me and that's kind of a good thing.

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together

9. Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together

release date: probably q1 2011 in America. I love the hell out of the original game, but its interface and dated mechanics make it tough to recommend to other people. modernizing it could be huge.

Kid Icarus: Uprising

10. Kid Icarus: Uprising

release date: probably spring 2011. I actually don't think I'll like this too much - it looks like a touch screen shooter with some 3d zelda stuff thrown in and I'm not too crazy about either. but it's Kid Icarus and I love that game to death.

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