Square Enix’s latest Dragon Quest X update features details about the jobs in the upcoming RPG. Additionally, the company has introduced a couple of characters from Ogleed.
The new details are as follows:
– Jobs aren’t like the ones in Final Fantasy
– Take on an actual job in the world and carry out job-specific things
– This includes making items and taking on certain quests associated with the job
– Use items you make as your own equipment
– Can sell items
– Quests include daily offerings and more complex mini story events
– Register at the Guild House to take on a job
– Need a recipe before you can make items
– Purchase recipes at shops
– Find rarer recipes in treasure boxes and secret areas
– Make items through a mini-game
– Example: As a weapon smith, pound away at the weapon and make sure each of the meters hits the green zone
– Job experience rises as does your level as you gain experience in your field
– Learn job-specific skills
– These skills can help make valuable items more easily
– King Bagudo: ruler of the Glenn kingdom
– Find the weapon smith guild at this area
– Bagudo is known by his people as a kind hero
– Eidos the Wise Man: can sense changes in the world
– He travels in an attempt to find/stop the source of these changes
– Eidos is a guiding force as you progress
You can find screenshots of the job system and the characters mentioned above right here.
This is what the roster looks like for Mario Tennis Open thus far:
Mario
Luigi
Peach
Yoshi
Daisy
Boo
Bowser
Bowser Jr.
Donkey Kong
Diddy Kong
Waluigi
Wario
Mii
Will there be more character inclusions? Or will this be the final roster? Hopefully we’ll find out soon!
Mario Open Tennis is one of the many 3DS games present at Nintendo’s GDC 2012 booth. You can find a control chart for the game above, and some off-screen footage here.
Update: Aaaaaand that’s it.
Super Mario 3D Land director Koichi Hayashida is speaking at GDC right now. I’ll keep this post updated with any quotes/tidbits/news throughout the event.
“We must strive to make others laugh with strange new ideas”
Mr. Hayashida is explaining all the trouble they went through to perfect the stereoscopic 3D in #SuperMario3D.
Mr. H is talking about how they used 3D illusions in #SuperMario3D
“It’s very important to let people play the game they want to.”
Satisfying both beginner and elite gamers is always challenging, which is why the first few worlds of #SuperMario3D were so easy!
“Enjoy everything!” – Mr. Hayashida
Super Mario 3D Land director Koichi Hayashida will be speaking at a GDC session called “Thinking in 3D: The Development of Super Mario 3D Land.” This will take place in about an hour’s time.
While I wouldn’t expect anything mindblowing – this isn’t an Iwata keynote after all – Nintendo of America will be tweeting live updates from the event. We may receive some development nuggets about 3D Land, and those could end up being very interesting!
You can follow Nintendo of America’s Twitter account here. We’ll be sure to post any tidbits from the session on the front page of the site as well.
GDC is, well, for developers, so naturally folks attending the event are bound to hear a few things about the Wii U from various industry members.
Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo ran into a financial analyst and a developer today, and shared a couple of things about what he heard.
Totilo wrote:
“Wii U chatter was mixed on day 2. A financial analyst told me Nintendo is screwed. Not enough time to be out on their own. A developer told me their fortunes are mixed. Good ambition on Nintendo’s part, but, well… it’s Nintendo, everyone says it’s on Nintendo for the thing to succeed. Same as it ever was. It’s almost all on them.”
This is just one analyst and one developer, so I wouldn’t be concerned about the quotes above. And I really, really wouldn’t be surprised if the mystery analyst was Wedbush’s Michael Pachter…
