Pandora's Tower follow-up

~THE CHASE~

Pandora's Tower is in the GameStop computer system, but... it's been there since August.

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The GameStop manager who told me Pandora's Tower was recently confirmed for North America was not in today and will not be working again until Wednesday.  Thus, I'll visit again on Wednesday to covertly record confirmation from the source of our previous report.

As for today, I made due with a run-of-the-mill employee to see if he knew anything.  I'm uploading the covertly recorded and thus highly cool, yet mostly useless, audio so that you all can assess it for yourselves.  As you will hear, the good news is that Pandora's Tower is listed in a part of their system which apparently indicates forthcoming release - however - it's been listed there since August.  Which means that it is probably only there as some kind of vestigial listing from when the game was first getting buzz... right?

But then, if the latest update is from August 2011, why did the manager say he got confirmation just the other day? So, I'll give a final report on Wednesday and I apologize in advance if this was just a confused GS manager and a big ol' false alarm.

Note: I used a Super Mario Bros warp-pipe sound to cover the two parts of the recording that might identify anything specific about the employees.  I don't want anyone to get in trouble!

~Covert Audio Recording~

Pandora's Tower Day 1

This is going to be an introductory post into the game for those that may not know what this game is about.

This game is being developed by Ganbarion who worked on Jump Super Stars and Jump Ultimate Stars for the DS. Both of those didn't make it out of Japan most likely because of the cross overs in the game and the issues that presents. Pandora's Tower is their first original intellectual property. In Japan the games title is Pandora's Tower: Until I Return to Your Side. This is kinda important in the context of the game. In Europe and Australia there is no subtitle.


Here is the basic story for the game. Basically you have your hero Aeron and his friend Elena and there is a mysterious merchant named Mavda and a Tower. Elena is cursed and the Merchant Mavda gives Aeron the Orihicalcum Chain so he can use it to scale the Tower and to fight the monsters within the tower. Also it seems that Elena is cursed and her curse can cause her to die. The worse kind. However the monsters can slowly reverse the curse if you return to her. The balancing act is are you going to want to go back if you are inside the Tower and having fun slaying the monsters or will you do you best to go back to her and save her at every possible opportunity?


Gonna leave an Iwata Asks here.

Iwata Asks

I will likely go into the characters tomorrow.

Gameplay footage from PAX East 2012

Mario Tennis Open

Aliens:Colonials Marines

Bit Trip Runner 2

Heroes of Ruin interview.

Sonic 4 Episode 2

Cosplay and photos from PAX East 2012

Okay I am going to put the cosplay after the break I am also going to break up these posts so they aren't as crowded. All of the good cosplay will be in this post and so on and so forth for the rest of the posts. 

Site chat at 6pm EST tonight.

Well this weekend has been interesting. Xenoblade was released and also there is the possiblity of Pandora's Tower coming to the US. I have a theory on why I got the response that I did. There was also some other news I believe I believe that PAX East is going on right now.  I think that it is in its 3rd year.

 So if you want to pick my brain stop on by and we can talk about these and other type of things in the site chat tonight. I will try to find some things for PAX East in the mean time.

Pandora's Tower confirmed for NA?

So, I've been in the car for the last 8 hours.  I was out of town all week visiting in-laws.  I stopped by GameStop to grab my Xenoblade pre-order on the way back in to town.  The helpful gent behind the counter asked if I wanted to pre-order The Last Story while I was in.  "No thanks," I said, "I'll come back and do that soon though."  He then said something that surprised me: "we also got confirmation on that other one... 'Tower something'?"  I paused... "Pandora's Tower?" He replied in the affirmative.

He said he was surprised all the Wii RPGs were coming out so close together.  I told him I didn't care about the timing but that I was just glad at the news! I grabbed my Xenoblade and artbook and rushed home to see what the surely-buzzing internet had to say about this.

I don't see it mentioned... anywhere.  Am I not on the right websites?  Is gaming media taking the Holiday weekend off?  Was this dude (manager) at GameStop completely wrong about "Tower something"?  Or is NinTemple.com breaking a huge story?

I suppose you should grain of salt this one, but, well... I believe him!

UPDATE: I'll be stopping by the GameStop in question on Monday to try and get some further confirmation.  ... I wonder if my wife's digital audio recorder would work through my coat pocket.

We don't really report news here on NinTemple so if a story comes to us, dad gum it, I'm going to see that story through!!

Xenoblade Chronicle Artbook photos

Well I got the last art book from my local Gamestop so I will be putting the art book here for all to see. I will put them all after the break. I guess I will put my thoughts her about the art book here about the art book here it is solidly made and it is pretty nice and there is small things I didn't notice about it at first glance I didn't see like the little border on the left and right side of the pages. Since most of the art in the art book is of nature it kinda blends the nature and mechanical. Also my sister was helping me take the photos and she said that the art was pretty impressive. Now for my sister to say that type of thing about a game you know it has to be impressive. She doesn't play many games with me. Anyway enjoy the art after the break.

Site chat is in one hour

Well with Xenoblade Chronicles in 2 days we have some things to talk about  for todays chat and also there was some things announced today which I will post on the blog and in the chat so that will be exciting. Make sure to stop on by for the chat.

Site chat is not going to happen today at 6PM EST.

Oh behalf of our new overlord Michael Pachter there will be no site chat today. Sorry to say this but it seems he finds these site chats to be the glue for the site so he is slowly trying to take the site apart. It seems he wants to cause discord in our community so this it the best way to do it.

 Also here is a message from Michael Pachter. I will put it after the break. Might want to read it.

The Pach Is Right

I'll admit it.  After all these years I finally see the light.  Michael Pachter was right.  Nintendo.... they're just doomed.  They don't have enough $2 games, they haven't cut price enough, their online sucks, they don't charge extra for online services. 

It's over.  Pach wins.  I can't believe I didn't see his point sooner.

What a fool I was!! And what a genius Pachter is.

I now submit this new, repurposed website, PachTemple.com, as an open apology to the man... Michael Pachter.