Disaster: Day of Crisis may be coming out of hibernation

By Stephen Munn | August 15, 2008

The mysterious Disaster: Day of Crisis, a kind of survival horror game with natural disasters as the threat, was announced and shown in some small form right around the launch of Wii. The first actual screenshots of the game drew some amount of heckling from the Internet, as tends to happen to some extent with everything, and since then we’ve seen and heard… basically nothing about it. Day of Crisis was to be developed by Monolith Soft, who has since been basically “bought” from Namco by Nintendo, and published by Nintendo. Monolith is responsible for two of the best RPGs on Gamecube, both start with the word “Baten” immediately followed by “Kaitos.” And oh yeah, they made Xenosaga, too.

Coasting up to the present, we’ve now seen the first signs of life for this title in a long time, and that is a rating for Australia.

The game has just been classified by the Australian Classification Board and given a big fresh M for Violence, themes and infrequent coarse language.

Sound familiar? That’s because the same thing happened with Mega Man 9, shortly before Capcom announced it. A rating at the ESRB means the game is complete enough that reviewers are able to play through the game to give it a rating, it’s not clear how done a game needs to be for the Australian Classification Board. The site says it was classified on August 13th, and rated M. Exciting.

Classification	M
Consumer Advice	Violence, themes and infrequent coarse language
Category	Computer Games
Version	ORIGINAL
Duration	variable
Date of Classification	13 August 2008
Author	KEIICHI ONO
Publisher	NINTENDO CO., LTD.
Production Company	MONOLITH SOFTWARE INC.
Country of Origin	JAPAN
Applicant	NINTENDO AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
File Number	T08/3560
Classification Number	41551018

Source: Australian Classification Board via Vooks via The Wiire.