I guess it shouldn’t come as too big a surprise that Atlus is bringing Success’ first person dungeon crawler The Dark Spire (aka Genmu no Tou to Tsurugi no Okite) to North America, since its published so many other Success games outside Japan. It is a pleasant surprise though, and will help add another substantial and unusual RPG to the US DS library when it comes out on March 10, 2009.

Like the Etrian Odyssey games, The Dark Spire is a first person dungeon crawler, where you explore countless floors of a single dungeon known as the Dark Spire. There’s a twist to make this dungeon crawler with custom characters – it truly pays homage to the original first person dungeon crawlers with two modes of play, classic and modern. In the modern version, you’ll see screens like the one at right, stylish, detailed and more colorful. If you choose to switch to the classic mode, The Dark Spire will look exactly like an 8-bit dungeon crawler…

Yay! Toki, the tornado-creating cat, will be coming to North America. Okay, tornadoes are a bad thing, but the DS game Tornado is definitely the opposite of bad. Ignition and Success will be bringing the quirky action title to the DS sometime in Fall, 2008.

Tornado stars Toki, as I mentioned before. A strange alien prince, referred to only as Prince, from the Planet 69 (stop giggling) has stolen everything from Earth’s surface because he apparently liked our style. So Toki and the Cosmic Cleaners head to the Prince’s planet with “Tornado Machines” to gather up all the items again in tornadoes and send them back home to the planet Earth. So far Story, Arcade, Battle and Bonus game modes have been announced.