Zodiac: Orcanon Odyssey is a promising-looking JRPG that's headed to the App Store thanks to kobojo - and if the involvement of Final Fantasy VII writerKazushige Nojima and Final Fantasy Tactics composerHitoshi Sakimoto weren't enough to get you interested, how does a shift from free-to-play to a premium release sound?
Kobojo has announced details for their newest game, Zodiac - a 2D persistent online RPG.
Kobojo has put together a crack team of developers including composer Hitoshi Sakimoto and scenario writer Kazushige Nojima, whose work includes many of the Final Fantasy games and the Kingdom Hearts series, as well as Basiscape who have done audio work for RPG's such as Dragon's Crown, Muramasa: the Demon Blade, and Valkyria Chronicles.
"Working with iconic developers such as Sakimoto-san and Nojima-san has pushed us to perfect every element of the RPG experience for mobile and handheld devices," said Mario Rizzo, CEO, Kobojo, "The combination of their deep knowledge and history along with our company's experience and artistic style is leading to the creation of Zodiac, our dream cross-platform RPG."
You can check out the gorgeous graphics in the trailer video below and whet your appetite for when Zodiac is released in 2015.
iStrology is, as you might expect, a simple and somewhat silly app. It lets you find your zodiac sign using a "birthwheel," then delivers your personal horoscope based on your sign. It also includes a matchmaker portion which assesses your astrological compatibility.
Each entry is illustrated with an anime-style drawing. You can read "advisory" poems (a little trite, but cute) and see other signs that correspond with your element (Leos and Aries, for example, are both fire elements). You can also check out the mythology behind the different constellation names. The horoscopes are pulled from an online database, and are updated weekly. For a simple novelty app, the feature list is actually impressive. Something to note, however, if you're finicky about your astrology: the app uses the tropical zodiac.
iStrology is just a diversion—but hey, it's got decent art and it's fun to look at the different horoscopes, so if you've got time to burn it's worth checking out. And no matter what Sheldon Cooper says, just because something is "hokum" doesn't make it any less fun.
