Inuyasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel

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Inuyasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel
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Developer(s) Art Co., Ltd
Frontier Groove, Inc.
Publisher(s) Bandai Namco Games
Composer(s) Tsutomu Fuzawa
Platform(s) Nintendo DS
Release
  • NA: January 23, 2007
Genre(s) Role-playing
Mode(s) Single-player

Inuyasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel is a role-playing video game (RPG) for the Nintendo DS. It was based on the anime series Inuyasha , and it will leads to Inuyasha: The Final Act . It was developed by Art Co., Ltd and Frontier Groove, Inc and published by Bandai Namco Games. It was released in North America on January 23, 2007. [1]

Contents

Story

Janis is a student who had transferred from the United States, living in Japan for the second time (explaining how she can speak Japanese right away). First, she has a strange dream from the memories of the past in the Heian period. She was forced to move back after her father had yet another job transfer. It is in present-day Japan where she meets Kagome Higurashi. The two become fast friends. One day, Kagome is absent from school and Janis goes to check on her. Soon after she reaches the Higurashi Shrine, she is attacked by a demon and is almost killed. Janis is rescued, however, by a dark magical mask-wearing priest named Sen (or Monk Sen). He tells her that her destiny lies on the other side of the Bone Eater's Well. In the Sengoku period, she is reunited with Kagome and the others.

Something strange happens though. She touches a Shikon Jewel fragment and it melts into her body. According to Monk Sen, Janis possesses a divine spiritual power called Kamuitama , and says that she is the daughter of Kamui. The fragment inside Janis is even undetectable by Kagome. Janis joins the others in a quest to return the Kamuitama to the one who previously possessed it, a god known as Datara. Only then will she be able to remove the fragment and rid herself of the great power that makes her a target for demons.

Characters

Gameplay

Secret of the Divine Jewel has a turn based battle system, where each character in the player's party takes a turn attacking, guarding, using items, or escaping. It also has a character development system, where the characters gain experience to level up and become more powerful. When not battling, the player is free to roam around the map or continue with the story and move on to his or her next objective.

Reception

The game received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. [2] IGN gave the game a 4/10 score. They criticized the game for being a shameless insult to the fans of the original show as well as the focus on the original character Janis, though they praised the graphics and the storyline. [9]

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