Busin 0: Wizardry Alternative NEO (PS2)

[Asema]

Busin 0, the spiritual sequel (and chronological prequel) to the title released in the US as "Wizardry: Tales of the Forsaken Land," is a dungeon crawling RPG released around the early 2000s for the PS2 by Atlus (developed by, I believe, Racjin).

Now, hear me out - it seems like the fact the game was released for a console almost past its sendoff days, and the fact it was released a number of years ago, might be a death knell - but this hasn't stopped the idea of several other translations (other things have, but regardless) of games that were released for consoles with similar problems and times with similar problems.

As far as I'm aware, Wizardry: Tales of the Forsaken Land was reasonably successful - given how hard the title is to find, I imagine that there was either a painfully small number of copies, or a lot of loving Wizardry fans. Busin 0 is similar in gameplay, but a lot more polished, with additional classes and story... and a bit more murderous difficulty.

I can't supply very many images, but a quick Google search will turn up enough materials to generate interest if you'd have any (videos and so forth).

I expect there might be problems with the idea I'm not aware of, but I think it's worth consideration either way. Thanks.

[Kakizaki]

^I desperately wanted to see this title localized. I loved Wizardry TotFL. There have been quite of few people that have suggested this over the last 8 years - myself included. Unfortunately, unless there is some sort of miracle, it will never happen.

[Enzeru]

I would love to see this localized! I loved the Wizardry for PS2 a lot and would get this day one if this were to come out here.

By the way, IIRC there were only 40,000 copies of Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land produced in the US.

[Fuyukaze]

You are a very cruel person for recomending this game. Many of us have wanted and asked for it. Still nothing. At this point the PS2 is dead in N/A. Thanks for reminding me of yet another PS2 game I'll one day be importing.

[cj iwakura]

I bet Wizardry: TotFL just got an extremely small run.


It's sad, because the first game had one of the best settings and stories of any RPG I'd played in years.

I wonder if the sequel's plot is half as good.

[dungeon_man]

I'd love to play Busin-O, but my understanding was that Wizardry: TotFL didn't do well, so it would be fiscally irresponsible to release the prequel. Pretty much the same reason we aren't likely to get any more Growlanser games. (Or PS2 games, unfortunately)

[BadYeti]

I just finally found a used copy of Wizardry: Tales of the Forsaken Land, and must say it's a great game.

I'd definitely purchase it's sequel/prequel.

As a side note, does anyone else think these might make good PSP games? TotFL came on a CD rather than DVD, it's only in 480i, and the graphical models don't look like they use very many polygons. Plus, in my opinion, turn-based RPGs just go wonderfully hand-in-hand with portable systems.