Ignition Entertainment to release Blue Dragon Plus outside Japan

Many people speculated that Blue Dragon Plus, the DS sequel to Blue Dragon, would be released outside of Japan. They were right – Ignition Entertainment has officially announced that it will be bringing Blue Dragon Plus to both North America and Europe in March, 2009.

As mentioned previously on Gamertell, Blue Dragon Plus is a direct sequel to the original Xbox 360 title Blue Dragon. Once again, Shu, Jiro, Kluke, Marumaro and Zola are the heroes, trying to explore a strange cube world and defeat a new villain – a dragon shadow known as Balaur. Like Heroes of Mana or Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, Blue Dragon Plus is a real time strategic RPG. You send your Blue Dragon characters off into battles with enemies in the newly discovered cube world.

Slowly but surely, the DS is building an RPG catalog that might one day rival the PSP’s. At the very least, it’s real time strategic RPG division is a match for Sony’s handheld. When it comes to standard strategic RPGs, the PSP still has a head start. The DS needs more titles like Final Fantasy Tactics A2, Luminous Arc, Hoshigami and Disgaea DS before it can even think about facing the PSP on that front.

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