![]() Now a young man sporting a very similar tattoo to the legendary Blade Dancer is on his way to the mysterious island of Foo (yes, "Foo" - they were scraping the bottom of the barrel so damn hard that they came up with splinters on that one) to seek adventure and test his skills as a warrior. To this day, nobody knows where the Blade Dancer is. Only one chosen hero could fight against him, and was unfortunately dubbed the "Blade Dancer", and even though he disappeared mysteriously one day, the reign of the Dark Lord chap was brought to an end. Stop me if you've heard this one before: Long ago, the world was home to an advanced civilisation who built a fantastic society, but which was threatened when an unpleasant Dark Lord chap decided to take over. Immigration is a burning issue of the day on the Island of Foo, apparently - despite the ludicrous name. As a consequence of their absence, less well known titles take centre stage on the PSP, the latest of which is Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light, a decent if uninspired stab at the RPG genre from Japanese studio Hitmaker. Perhaps even more significantly, the real juggernauts of the genre, the Final Fantasies and Dragon Quests, remain eerily absent so far. The PSP certainly has a scattering of decent JRPGs, but it's hardly a raging torrent of high quality stories about spiky-haired heroes. Maybe it's something to do with the hardware, maybe it's the vastly larger sales figures of the DS in Japan, maybe it's just that such games are taking a while to show up. The PlayStation and PlayStation 2 have been the spiritual home of the Japanese RPG genre for over a decade therefore, surely it would stand to reason that the PSP should continue this tradition, attracting RPG developers to weave their tales on Sony's ultra-powerful black slab of technology?įor whatever reason this hasn't happened. Here, in essence, is a handheld PlayStation 2, with a disc format capable of holding far more data than any portable game format has previously managed. ![]() There's a certain leap of logic which a lot of people - ourselves at Eurogamer included - made about the PSP when it was launched.
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