Chaos Rings from Square Enix and Gravity Guy 2 gracing Xbox Windows Phone this week

Chaos Rings iOS

This is GDC calendar week, so you can count on some cool developer interviews and hands-on stories as the conference progresses. Merely it'due south likewise just an exciting week for Windows Telephone releases. First we had the release of Sims Medieval for Nokia devices, and now full general users tin look forrard to two regular Xbox releases on Wed. We're looking at i Windows Phone 7 game and one for Windows Phone 8. The quondam will also be the most expensive mobile Xbox game to date, merely at least information technology's a good 1: Chaos Rings from Foursquare-Enix!

Chaos on hand

Given the conservative nature of Square Enix'southward previous Windows Phone releases (the original Final Fantasy and KooZac), we fully expected the Japanese publisher'southward side by side release to be the slightly yawn-inducing Final Fantasy II. In a contempo editorial, I opined that information technology would exist much cooler for them to skip alee a bit to porting their newer iOS releases. They may non have skipped as far ahead as I'd liked, but Chaos Rings is both a newer release (dating from the end of 2022) and style more than interesting than the second Concluding Fantasy. Information technology's as well the kickoff game from our 2022 reader's pick contest to actually get released on Windows Phone!

The story of Anarchy Rings revolves around viii people who must participate in a mysterious tournament against their wills. The winners receive eternal life while the losers unfortunately stop living. Each of the iv pairs has their own brusk playthrough (around half dozen hours), and finishing everyone's story opens up a conclusion to the entire tale. Plus some equipment earned from enemies carries over between those stories. On the whole it'due south a clever way to make the game digestible for mobile audiences.

Chaos Rings iOS
iOS version screens and trailer

Graphically, Chaos Rings works much like Final Fantasy Seven. In the overworld, backgrounds are pre-rendered and characters are 3D. During battles and cinemas, everything uses 3D graphics. The original game dates dorsum a couple of years, simply the grapheme designs all the same impress. Chaos Rings also has a fantastic soundtrack and Japanese phonation acting (with English text, of form).

I'm super excited for this release. Only the price will certainly cause some debate. The Windows Phone version of Final Fantasy clocked in at $half-dozen.99, a couple of dollars cheaper than the iOS game. Chao Rings (which was developed exclusively for mobile devices and is not a panel port) volition cost $9.99 – more any previous Xbox Windows Phone game. Considering the iOS version launched at $12.99, it could have been worse. We are talking almost a big budget RPG that offers more than than xxx hours of gameplay and could easily sell for $xxx on DS or Vita here. If this i sells well plenty, maybe we'll get the prequel Chaos Rings Omega and Chaos Rings Two too.

Chaos Rings will run on Windows Phone 7 or eight. The file size volition be somewhere between 700MB-1GB. Given our platform's need for upwards to 4 times a game's size in club to actually install it, RPG fans might want to start clearing room now.

Gravity Guy 2

Gravity Guy

If ten bucks is likewise rich for your claret, perchance you'll find this three-dollar game more appealing. Gravity Guy 2 is launching exclusively on Windows Phone 8 prior to its eventual iOS and Android release. Miniclip has been a fairly agile supporter of Microsoft's mobile Os, so it'due south cool to see them give us a game before anybody else gets it.

As for the game itself, I have a tough time getting stoked for it. I liked the first game quite a lot when I first played information technology, giving it a positive review. Miniclip then added a huge second affiliate to the game, which should have been cause to celebrate. But the 2nd affiliate was so frustratingly hard that it really turned me off from the game entirely. A couple of the Achievements were stupidly hard as well. Maybe Gravity Guy 2 will have a more reasonable difficulty, but I'm not holding my breath.

Gravity Guy 2 is a second countless runner in which players can jump dorsum and forth between the ceiling and the ground. Information technology features:

Jump from one platform to another, while fugitive many hazards placed beyond the path
Simply tap the push on the right side of the screen to raise the lifts and on the right to perform a spring
Seven different clones each with its ain special abilities
Collect coins and earn points in lodge to unlock new power slots and level up to get bonuses

Gravity Guy two will toll $2.99. Nosotros're told information technology will release in all territories except for Russia, Taiwan, Brazil and Korea… But Microsoft often gets the release territories wrong in these accelerate notices, and then we'll see.

Both games come out on Wed, March 27.

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