DemiKids: Dark Version – GBA – Preview

E3 2003 – First Look

I’ve always enjoyed the Persona series going all the way back to the original
release on the PSX system, and was pleased to hear that DemiKids on the Game Boy
Advance is a spin off of the same series … only not quite as dark or maturely
themed as the Persona series. One of the biggest things that I found interesting
about this new game is that it actually comes in two different cartridges, one
light and one dark, and each will have a similar but different storyline.

Basically, Jin, Akira, and Lena are snooping around the library in school one
day, and find a book which is filled with incantations and rituals. In messing
with what they shouldn’t, they summon out a powerful demon. Another student
named Amy appears, and shows them how to use a gun called the Demiloc to capture
and summon demons. The light and dark versions each have their own story of the
kids and their decent into Valhalla, and each has it’s own unique demons to
capture and fuse … but you can also trade from version to version which will
create and breed newer creatures that will be stronger than the ones that you
get from just one version. With over 350 demon types and two different versions
to play, you can expect that there will be a lot of different gameplay and
options to give good replay value.

DemiKids is scheduled for an October release this year.