New Wild ARMs for PSP

[The Mana Knight]

Thank the portable gaming gods, Wild Arms for the PSP is not a port! Sony Computer Entertainment Japan opened up a teaser website for Wild Arms XF today, and the big revelation at the site is that the game is an original new title. After the Popolocrois port and the Tales of Eternia port, we're sure you can see why we're relieved.

The site, accessible here (http://www.wild-arms.net/XF/), provides a couple of additional details on top of this. XF, which is read as "Cross Fire," takes place in the land of Falgaia, the universe common to all Wild Arms games. Media Vision is, of course, heading up development.

Accute web surfers will also notice some English text in the artwork at the above site. We'll leave the speculation to you.

Wild Arms XF was a surprise PSP announcement at Sony's Wild Arms 10th anniversary party, held over the weekend in Tokyo. Specifics on the game were not revealed. Link (http://psp.ign.com/articles/730/730405p1.html)

And RPG Fan (http://www.rpgfan.com/news/2006/1432.html) said the game would be called Wild ARMs: Cross Fire.

Well, this news has me excited for two reasons:
1. I would love more RPGs on PSP that have not been ports.

2. I definitely like the Wild ARMs series, and having a new one is excellent, especially for PSP.

I'm very curious myself as to whether Wild ARMs on PSP will be more similar to WA1-3 gameplay, similar to WA4-5, or completely different. I don't really know which I'd want most, but I'd like to see something a little different, although that probably won't be the case.

Anyway, this news definitely has me excited, although I was a little late posting it.

[62t]

first we still need xseed to bring over Wild Arms V

[BREVITY]

This is good news indeed!
I found that I really like playing RPGs even if they are long on my handhelds.
Good stuff thanks OP.

[-Never4ever-]

I would have really liked a new remake (not a port of Code Alter F) of the original WA.

WA1 & 2 were really good JRPGs, but (IMO) the series has been down hill since.

[62t]

I would have really liked a new remake (not a port of Code Alter F) of the original WA.

WA1 & 2 were really good JRPGs, but (IMO) the series has been down hill since.
WA3 is bad, and Alter F is average, but WA4 is easily the best of the series.

[-Never4ever-]

WA3 is bad, and Alter F is average, but WA4 is easily the best of the series.

Eh I would dissagree a little, for me it would have to be:

WA: 9/10
WA2: 8/10
WA3: 7/10
WACAF: 7/10 (it's basically the same exact game as WA3, only with WA1's setting and story).
WA4: ??/10 - admittingly I never played much of part 4, but the story and characters just irked me enough to not even bother.

I would love an actual sequal to WA1 (the original). Yeah, I know The main baddie from WA1 makes an apearence, but afaik, the games are pretty unrelated from one another.