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Right now, the #1 game I am looking forward to is Animal Crossing DS. No kidding, I think a lot of awesome stuff can be done with a portable animal crossing game. The touch screen will also probably make the game even better. I know a bunch of my friends will be getting it also so lots of interaction between us and trading stuff and stuff. I'm really looking forward to it.
If FFXII comes out, I'll probably buy it, but I am extremely skeptical about the active battle system. Every final fantasy game ever to come out has had the turn based combat with the separate battle screen (with the exception of FFXI, which I love but shouldn't be considered part of the series). FFXII is getting rid of that, and I just can't imagine good things will come of it. Bad memories of Secret of Mana and Kingdom Hearts come to mind, where the players I"m not controlling get slaughtered while the character I'm controlling lives because I'm controlling him. I'm going to buy the game regardless, just because it's a Final Fantasy game. I have never been let down by that, I even liked mystic quest.
Xenosaga II will probably be pretty good... I never got to finish the first one but I liked it a lot. I actually enjoy watching the cutscenes, it's nice to sit back and play an interactive movie sometimes. And Xenosaga II won't have the super-deformed character models that the first one had which is a plus in my opinion. I connect to the characters more when they look like people, it's just a preference of mine.
I read about Super Mario 128 also and I think that's gonna be awesome... It's supposed to be the "true" sequel to Mario 64 (which I loved). I had assumed that Mario Sunshine was the sequel, but I guess nintendo just intended that as a spinoff, or was embarassed about it and wanted to do themselves right by making a real mario game instead of one where you depend more on your spray hose than anything else... I did like sunshine though, but it seemed a little rushed for gamecube release while Mario 128 isn't being rushed. so yeah...
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