Dark Cloud stars a young innocent but adventuresome boy who must return a strange floating plot of land to its original place, presumably on earth (or at least a place that look just like it). With one exception, his task isn't that difficult. He knows how to land his giant hovering island, but removing the evil kingdom that's uprooted and replaced his future village is more challenging than it may seem. Traveling back and forth from his island in the sky to nearby villages, the young central character trades information and gains allies in his quest.
But what makes this game intruging isn't the graphics but the games "georama" system. This enables the player to create they're own towns using several onscreen tools, similar to the classic game "Act Raiser". The main characters mission is to build up his island, creating a village, complete with houses, hills, churches, temples, volcanoes, streams, and even a choice of weather. Players can build just about anything from paths to bridges to wind mills and other nessecary structures. And any unwanted structures can be destroyed to make room for new ones.
Also the Georama system allows the player to use a combination select and other buttons to build a village through a menu system and then venture through the village in an RPG fashion. The screen zooms in form an isometric field to the actuall playing field using a beautiful effect never seen before.
Battle scenes were unavailable unfortunately, but I hope to have more information as this game reaches further development.
