How did you find out about Solatorobo?

[Obviously]

Please excuse the story time, I just feel like writing a bit.

Solatorobo is an off-the-beaten-path niche title that a lot of people are probably never going to hear of. I was wondering how everybody here came to know about it.

For me it was just luck. I just had a major surgery recently and have been hurting and mostly house-bound. I had someone take me to Gamestop for a few minutes, I haven't bought a new video game in ages because my health issues have translated into money issues but I really needed something to take my mind off of things.

Looking at the DS games I saw Solatorobo and that it had a soundtrack with it which is always cool. Then I saw that it was about a dog riding a robot and instantly I thought of Tail Concerto which I have for PS1 from back in the day and I always really enjoyed, assuming it was a dead property that would never see a sequel. I didn't even know the two games were related at this point I was just noting the similarities.

Well I was hurting and wanted to get out of there so I did something that I never do and decided to take a risk and buy a game I never heard of and knew nothing about. I was impressed with the art style and the manual and the soundtrack extra and the graphics looked cool. I figured it couldn't be a total loss and I could try to sell it if it turned out bad. When I got home the first thing I did was Google the game and I got excited when I saw all the positive reviews, then I got REALLY excited when I found it it was actually a sequel to Tail Concerto!

My mind was blown even though it all made total sense because the similarities were many and obvious. They actually made a sequel of one of my favorite PS1 games that only I ever heard of! Then I got to playing and on top of that the game was good, even better than Tail Concerto.

I don't remember window shopping for video games and blindly buying one I never heard of simply because the box looked cool since my Sega Genesis's day and I'm happy that it paid off this time.

[Lumina]

I've been an XSEED fanboy for years, XSEED can't release anything without me knowing about it, muahaha!

[Zinf]

I don't have an epic to go with it, but I first saw it covered on Siliconera.

[Fabrizo]

Tail Concerto was one of my favorite PS1 games, and so I had been paying attention to what CC2 was up to ever sense hearing about Mamoru-kun and seeing some concept art for Tail Concerto 2. It being brought to the US is how I found out about XSeed.

[Baroque]

Wow. That's a really cool story, man. Hope you get better. The way I found out about it seems boring in comparison. I was reading some forum around the time the game was set to release in Europe and people kept talking about it and so I looked it up and fell in love with the game. Then XSEED announced they were bringing it over and so I here I am.

[Gintoki]

Back when I bought my 3DS, I decided to resubscribe to Nintendo Power. Read about it there.

[masteryoshi88]

I learn about this game on Operation Rainfall's facebook page a while ago.

[Megamixer]

I'm a minor CC2 fanbot so I keep tabs on their various projects by visiting their website once a week or so. I was very curious what their DS project would be since they'd never made game on a non-Sony system before. They must have been fighting to get this game made for a long time since the teaser page was put up in 2007 and only unveiled in early 2010. Having played Tail Concerto some years ago I was certainly pleased by Solatorobo's official announcement! Even more so that the game has made it outside of Japan!

[Red Savarin]

Team Fortress 2, of all things.

I was playing a game and noticed someone's avatar...I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out who it was--eventually, a friend figured it out and told me the name of the game....decided I would pick it up once it came to the States---I don't regret the purchase one bit--easily my favorite DS game.

[Juanblue85]

Well I found out when Siliconera.com put out a scan of the game which piqued my interest and I have been following it till it got released in Japan and was hopeful it would get an English localization well after a few months the game was announced for Europe and was thinking if it wasn't coming to the US I will import from EU but behold glorious XSeed Games saved the day and announced a US release of the game so when I heard that I was ecstatic and pre-ordered as soon as possible on Amazon.com and now I have the game in hand in English and enjoying every minute of it. Thanks so much for bringing this wonderful game XSeed Games. ^_^