Brave little Chocobo faces big bad monster in Chocobo Tales/to Mahou no Ehon, children. But Chocobo is very, very brave. With a big cry of "Waaark!" (or "Kweh!", depending on your persuasion), he pulls out... a Poke-ball? No he doesn't choose you, Pikachu, but forgive us if the battle system for Square-Enix's Chocobo Tales might have borne a very slight similarity to Nintendo/GameFreaks' staple franchise to us; it's on the DS, after all.

Similar to the early Final Fantasies, Chocobo and his opponent attack by summoning various creatures from the Final Fantasy bestiary (one prominent example being the Bombs), where they will conduct some of their signature moves. Like the earlier Final Fantasies, though, the summons persist only for the attack. It's not known if the summons will confer additional defensive bonuses to their summoner (which would have been useful as poor little Chocobo is redlined in this GameTrailers gameplay, and barely manages to scratch out a victory). Additionally, because our resident translator is out for today, we wished we could have had help translating the in-game dialogue boxes.