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Today, Square Enix launched the official (Japanese) page for Blood of Bahamut, which includes a game play trailer as well as screen shots. My first impression is of a Shadow of the Colossus RPG-cross for the DS, and I’m not far off.

Bahamut features over 130 missions, 7 heroes, and great beasts which were once the foundations of cities of the world of Altail. Combat appears to be a real time RPG-style combat system, and both DS screens are used to capitalize on the size of the creations. It also appears that you must fight your way close to the colossi that you face, and combat against these beasts seems to be a combination of typical attacks and the interactive climb-and-destroy that we saw in Shadow of the Colossus a while ago.

image courtesy of IGN

No release date’s available yet. But you can be sure that this is a game I’m going to get. Shadow of the Colossus was a favorite game of mine, although I haven’t picked it up since my “oops, forgot to save after beating the game” mishap. Combine that with my favorite hand-held system, and good things are bound to happen.

As day two of the Tokyo Game Show (TGS) has passed, here’s what’s news: Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (DS) will be released in Feb 2009. Yep, save your Christmas money. Today’s focus at TGS was on a lot of trailers. 1up and IGN have a lot of new previews available.

But screw that. Blizzcon is in swing, and guess what they announced today?

Starcraft II will be three stand-alone games. Yes, three: StarCraft II Terrans: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II Zerg: Heart of the Swarm, and StarCraft II Protoss: Legacy of the Void (in that order).

Blizzard claims  this is to introduce more depth into the stories of the series. Well, seeing what they’re doing with Northrend in WoW, I don’t doubt they’re capable - so long as Knaak doesn’t touch it. Still, it’s a bombshell for the SC fans, especially as this means they have to pay around $180 for the whole story. Let’s hope Blizz didn’t shoot themselves in the foot with this one.