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Final Fantasy XII : Revenant Wings REVIEW

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If you're a fan of Square Enix, DS is your system. With an overwhelming rush of support in the last two years, the Japan-based company continues to pour title after title onto Nintendo's touch handheld, oftentimes pushing the limits of the system or trailblazing genres that no other publisher - Nintendo included - has entered yet. We saw it with Heroes of Mana, as the company made the first true RTS experience on the system, and we're seeing it again with Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings . This may not be the first time we've seen action/real-time strategy on the system, but it's certainly the best of the bunch, and yet another must-have title from the best RPG makers in the business. Square Enix seems to work within a certain release pattern, and it's one we've grown quite accustomed to over the last few years. There's always at least one true AAA title in the works, one A title, and one that's somewhat filler (though oftentimes pretty decent as we

Unlockable: Alternate Ending

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A very difficult task to be done just for having a different ending. To get an alternate ending, beat the game with a 100% completion rating. Otherwise, you will get the standard ending if you beat the game with anything less than 100%. Source of pictures: IGN

DS party Review

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The last time handheld gamers got a chance to join the Mario Party it was on the Game Boy Advance in one of the lamest iterations of the series: Mario Party Advance. It certainly had some merit but ultimately, even though it had the same development studio at the helm as the console renditions, it just couldn't keep up with the rest of the Hudson designs. Mario Party DS , however, is a huge leap over the last portable rendition, bringing the on-the-go versions in line with what's been made for the Nintendo 64, GameCube, and Wii systems. And maybe that's what roots the DS game down into merely "decent" territory: it's just more of Mario Party, a decade-old tradition of varying quality mini-games strung out in a board game presentation…but now with touch-screen and microphone-blowing mini-games. Mario Party DS, like the rest of the Mario Party bunch, is a series of Mario-themed board games where four players, either human or computer AI, roll the dice and wander