A new/rewritten musical score will be created by Yasunori Mitsuda, and the difficulty may be tweaked for the North American release. In December 2008, Sega officially announced its plans to release the title in North America, where it was released on January 12, 2010. Reception In Japan, the game sold 56,000 copies in Japan in its debut week. The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Nintendo Power praised the game's battle system and dungeon design but criticized the story and characters as being generic. RPGLand praised the character development while being critical of town exploration and low replay value, ultimately concluding, "Sands of Destruction ends up being good, but not great." RPGamer said that its quality story and presentation were held back by enemies "abusing" the battle system. The review concludes, "Unfortunately, its many irritations in combat cause the game to fall short of the lofty status it wanted to achieve." Legacy An anime adaptation, also titled Sands of Destruction was produced by Production I.G and directed by Shunsuke Tada. It began broadcasting on TV Tokyo on July 7, 2008 and ended on September 30, 2008, spawning 13 episodes. A manga adaptation, began serialization in July 2008 in the Japanese magazine Dengeki Maoh. Notes References External links Official World Destruction website 2008 video games Fantasy anime and manga Fantasy video games Funimation Image Epoch games Manga based on video games Nintendo DS games Nintendo DS-only games Production I.G Role-playing video games Sega video games Sega Games franchises Seinen manga TV Tokyo original programming Video games scored by Yasunori Mitsuda Video games developed in Japan Single-player video games