Konami is celebrating 15 years of Suikoden with a series of new arrangement albums for vocals and piano. The first album has been announced for January 2010, and will feature two songs from each game in the series, one redone with a vocalist and the other in a piano format. The Suikoden series has a long history of excellence in the music department, so fans should have a lot to look forward to.
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411mania gives a rundown on this week's game releases. Highlights include Marble Saga: Kororinpa (Wii), Brandish: Dark Revenant (PSP import), Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus (DS import), TrackMania DS, Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure (DS), Suikoden Tierkreis (DS), Super Robot Taisen K (DS import), and Rei Choaniki (PSP import).
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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars wasn't the only big Nintendo DS game released on March 17th. Konami announced on Tuesday that Suikoden Tierkreis, the first installment in the RPG series to be exclusively released on the DS, had shipped to retailers in the United States.
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The week ahead belongs to the portable gaming systems, with several big titles for the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, and nothing new for the Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3. Rockstar Games brings Grand Theft Auto to the DS with Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. PSP gamers can look forward to Resistance Retribution. Don't forget to link up to Resistance 2 on the PS3! There are a couple of bundles from Ubisoft and a few RPGs to check out as well.

This week's new video game releases:
(subject to change)

Wii
Marble Saga Kororinpa
No More Hereos/Red Steel Bundleicon
Pro Evolution Soccer 09
Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution (Ready 2 Rumble T-shirt pre-order bonus)
Rune Factory: Frontier

Nintendo DS
Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Exclusive Bulletproof Infernus car bonus)
Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure
History Great Empires: Rome
Scrabble
Suikoden Tierkreis (Soundtrack and Artbook pre-order bonus)
TrackMania DS (3-Months of Free Online "TrackMania United Forever" for PC)
Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume

Sony PSP
Air Conflicts
Prince of Persia Rival Swords/Prince of Persia Revelation Bundle icon
Resistance: Retribution
Scrabble
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The first DS entry in the Suikoden series.

Konami has today announced that its epic role-playing title, Suikoden Tierkreis, is to be released across Europe for Nintendo DS on March 13, 2009.

In the game the player is cast as a young villager called Hero, a member of the defence corps in Citro Village. With his childhood friends, Liu, Marica, Jale, and Dirk - the leader of the corps, Hero heads to the eastern hill on a routine patrol. On the way they come across a tower emitting a mysterious light, which when inspected
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Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today released new assets and details for Suikoden: Tierkreis, the latest iteration of the celebrated Suikoden series for the Nintendo DS. Suikoden: Tierkreis will expand the bounds of the handheld RPG as players journey with a variety of characters while exploring exotic locations and cultures across the game's universe of parallel worlds.
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Konami has been bundling soundtracks, posters, and other goods with their DS game releases in Japan, which has been frustrating for those who wish to import these additional items separately from the Japanese version of the game. Thankfully, Konami composer Norikazu Miura has confirmed that at least Suikoden Tierkreis' soundtrack will have a separate release. Now if they'll only go back and do this with Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia!
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Suikoden Tierkreis casts the player as a member of a tightly knit security force in a remote setting called Citro Village. During an ongoing task to get rid of the land's fearsome creatures, players uncover a mysterious phenomenon...
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Konami is expediting Suikoden: Tierkreis' localization. We already have some screens of the English build which is on track for release in North America this March, around three months after the Nintendo DS game comes out in Japan. Your quest in Suikoden: Tierkreis is to gather the 108 Stars of Destiny (again) to overthrow One King who wants to wreck the universe.

As a twist you can loan your collected warriors to other players via Nintendo Wi-Fi. When you send a unit out it leaves your party to travel to another person's game. Eventually the character returns bearing treasure and hopefully some new abilities. The community feature sounds novel, but followers of the Suikoden series might be disappointed to hear this is a spin-off that takes place across parallel worlds outside of the main series.
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Suikoden Tierkreis has recently been rated by the ESRB, at the very least confirming Konami's intentions to release the game in North America.

Rating: Everyone 10+

Content descriptors: Alcohol Reference, Fantasy Violence, Language, Mild Suggestive Themes.

The synopsis offers some further insight into how the game plays, some of the characters' personalities and some events without being specific. They still remain very lights spoilers.
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Suikoden Tierkreis is scheduled to come out in Japan on December 18 and Star of Destiny seekers won't have to wait a year to play it in English. I spoke with a representative from Konami Computer Entertainment America who informed me they are already working on localizing the DS game. It's on target for "early 2009? which translates into Q1 2009. As long as progress steadily continues we should see Suikoden Tierkreis in North America this winter.
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The most recent update on Konami's Genso Suikoden Tierkreis Japanese website states the release as being the 18th of December, 2008.

Also, two special editions are available when ordering for Konamistyle, with a two-disc soundtrack, an 96-page artbook, five bookmarks, a Tierkreis story CD, a Suikoden calender, and two CDs featuring content from the Suikoden Radio Show.
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Konami have today announced Suikoden: Tierkreis, the latest iteration of the celebrated Suikoden series, will mark the franchise's debut exclusively on the NintendoDS. Encompassing a variety of different characters while exploring many exotic locations and cultures across the game's universe of parallel worlds, Suikoden: Tierkreis will expand the bounds of the handheld Role-Playing Game genre. Featuring the franchise's established gameplay while maximizing the technological capabilities of the NintendoDS to provide all-new online elements, this epic Role-Playing Game consists of many cinematic experiences that will drive the grand storyline of the 108 Stars of Destiny as they battle to thwart the powerful One King.

Using the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection, Suikoden: Tierkreis offers a rich online community experience that allows players to send their characters on quests that other members of the community...
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