PS3 Eternal Sonata gets plenty of bonus content

by Nick Doerr { Oct 31st 2007 at 7:00PM }

While the 360 crowd has gotten to enjoy more JRPG titles than the PS3 this past year, we'll be grabbing one of their exclusives, Eternal Sonata, come early 2008. Instead of just porting over the skin and bones of the original version, the PS3 version will include a number of extras to enhance our cel-shaded experience.

Bonus content! The very phrase is exciting, but then often times the "bonus" will be an unlockable soundtrack feature, a piece of artwork, or something incredibly lame, unlike all those old Working Designs collections. Those were great. Anyway, Eternal Sonata pulls out some worthwhile content, like making previously nonplayable characters Serenade and Prince Crescendo totally playable. There will also be added story sequences, probably for these characters. Sounds like a winner for the PS3's RPG library.

[via SiliconEra]

Tags: eternal-sonata, tri-crescendo

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Daniel @ Oct 31st 2007 7:08PM

Awesome. I was beginning to think that Enchanted Arms was going to be the "best" traditional RPG we'd get. God, that game still haunts my dreams with it's terribleness...blech!

Broken Haiku @ Oct 31st 2007 7:12PM

Okay deal - mine! I'm starved for a good RPG. I almost cried when I realised how bad Enchanted Arms was.

James @ Oct 31st 2007 7:20PM

Enchanted Arms was that bad I take it =/ ...

Good thing I didn't decide to pick it up then, I am waiting for White Knight Story, FF 13, Last remenant, and now this one. I know there is more but those are the only ones I can remeber off the top of my head.

Consolcwby @ Oct 31st 2007 7:40PM

=)

I love these types of games - especially anything different. New bonus stuff sounds great to me, I just hope that they tighten up the gameplay that the 360s players were complaining about!

ruibing @ Oct 31st 2007 8:14PM

I rather they release the game at $39-49 instead of adding some contents and then releasing it at the full $59.

John @ Oct 31st 2007 8:54PM

Funny, I thought of Enchanted Arms, too. I had rented it then saw it for less than $20 at Gamestop, but didn't pick it up. I do hope this is better. After playing Enchanted Arms, which offered nothing on the order of a next-gen experience (simple, slow graphics, plodding gameplay (though the cutscenes were nice-- they're just as nice on almost any ps2 game you can mention, also), I started researching and playing ps2 RPG's... then all these new games came out and I haven't even thought about RPG's, so I'll be looking forward to this one.

Aurvant @ Oct 31st 2007 11:13PM

Here's a funny and unsettling story that happened to me a few days ago.

I went to the Namco-Bandai website the other day and I noticed that all of the PS3 information for Eternal Sonata had been taken down. When I emailed NB about why the info had been taken down they sent me this email:

"Thank you for contacting Namco Bandai's Customer Support Department.

Eternal Sonata has already been released and is available for purchase for the Xbox 360. We have not made any official announcement about other platforms and apologize for any confusion caused by the erroneous web site listing.

Please feel free to contact us again in the future as the need arises"

Now, they said in the email that it was an "erroneous web site listing" yet did we not actually see pictures and videos at TGS 07 followed by an announcement that this was actually happening?

If so then why has Namco-Bandai suddenly gone hush hush about this? Also, why are they still releasing "extra-content" information when they are still denying a PS3 port?

I hope that this one Customer rep was just off his rocker and completely crazy. I really want to play Eternal Sonata on my PS3 but I'm kinda having a hard time figuring out just what the hell NB is up too.