One the upside, the rendering looks gorgeous and I like the music.

On the downside, it looks like Pokemon.

"Pikachu, I choose you!"

I've never been a big fan of the RPG style of gameplay, I might have to give this a try though. The visuals are fantastic.

So the question really is... will this ever make it to American Shores?

So we finally get pokemon 3d looks awesome I love the animation style, I do think something like this does push the ps3, since animation like graphics isn't easy.

"Sugoi" would be the word for amazing in Japanese... ;)

And damn does this game look beautiful. My Miyazaki fangirl is super-excited...and encouraged to get a PS3 for this.

I don´t understand what´s the whole hype with this. I love Ghibli but for me it looks like a regular crappy boring game like for PS1.

I think this was originally coming out on the DS. The working title was The Another World.

Methinks Miyazaki ought to be given the reins to the Final Fantasy franchise. Movies, games, all of it. He clearly gets it more than Squeenix.

Oh. yay. Another cinema-laden JRPG with turn-based combat and children with giant eyes.
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Call me when they make a new Ultima or Elder Scrolls, or update the Gold Box SSI D&D games. JRPGs, with a few exceptions, are generally atrocious and dull.

This looks awesome. I always have loved anything to come out of Studio Ghibli, and this does not look to be an exception. It looks like a lot of fun, and the animation is spot-on as a work from Miyazaki. I SOOOO hope this comes to the States. It would give me another reason to buy the PS3, which might just make enough reasons to justify the cost!

I'm not anime's biggest fan, but I do love me some Ghibli and this game is wonderfully adorable.

For someone who, well I own every pokemon game there is (ok I never got snap, puzzle leagues, or those sort, but I do have all the actual games and all the mystery dungeon games)

Enix's Dragon Warrior Monsters for the game boy colour still ranks as my all time favorite, and when I first got into gaming there were a fair number of monster collecting RPGs to uncover. Sadly in the last however many years I couldn't help but notice the genre that got me into gaming was compressed down to really one game every two or so years all under the title of Pokemon.

Seeing such a beautiful game like this lights up my heart.

It may be noted my career choice is in the veterinary industry anyways so it would make sense that as a gamer I am steered towards the games where I can collect and nurture animals to the point of being able to easily destroy any other animal?

Ok that last bit of logic goes against what I would do with real life animals but...

The "running on the landscape" feature reminds me alot of Terranigma. And that was an awesome standalone title back on the Snes.

Looks a little like Tales of Symphonia to me.

Wasn't Osamu Tezuka the Walt Disney of Japan?
But that's just me being a dick.

It saddens me that the monster RPG genre has become so uncommon that everyone assumes that a monster-catching game is 'Pokemon'. It's odd, too, since usually if one game in a genre becomes super-popular, the result is more games in that genre trying to imitate that success. With monster games, it seems like developers have gone "Well, there's no competing with Pokemon, so we're out."

I've been excited for this game for over a year and not because of the art or the PS3 one, but because the DS version will come with a physical hardcover book that you refer to throughout the game for magic spells, hints on how to kill monsters, finding items, maps, etc... I think more games should do this sort of thing and I've been praying for this to come over here (with the book).

Not sure about Pokemon, I see more of a Shin Megami Tensei or Blue Dragon. It doesn't actually show any one character controlling a any different types of monsters.

I'll be in my bunk!

Okay, Miyazaki doing Pokemon. I can live with that. It doesn't thrill me, though. When you get Bakshi and Crumb to animate a hentai game, then I'll reach for my wallet. And so will a significant fraction of the planet's population, so get cracking.

don't have a PS3, but if the DS version is translated into english, i'd be dancing all the way to the game shop and wouldn't give a CRAP who's looking and pointing fingers at me X3

HOLY CRAP, i JUST REALIZED I SAW THIS IN HONG KONG ON SPRING VACATION@!!!! And I didn't even mention this to Rob. Woe is me.

sure is pokemon in here.

I've seen this trailer several times now and every time I see I get shudders down my spine over how beautiful it looks.