copies sold during its first week on sale and a total of 25,413 copies sold by the end of 2006. Atlus suspects that the game suffered from low sales in the region due to the game's concurrent release with the highly anticipated handheld title Mother 3. The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it scores of nine, seven, eight, and nine for a total of 33 out of 40. Gamebrink compared the statistics and level systems to games like Oblivion. The site praised the story, job system and, especially, the music, but defined the battles as "fairly shallow." In contrast, Nintendo Powers major complaints were that the game was "frustrating because your objectives are often obtuse and unintuitive and the game can be brutally difficult." Sequel Ueda claimed during a 2006 interview between Gamasutra and developer Grasshopper Manufacture that he was working on a sequel to Contact. When asked again in 2011 about a sequel, Ueda responded that he was ready to work with Suda on a follow-up game despite the original's lack of success. "Regardless of the business aspects of making a sequel," Ueda explained, "I think the world would be a better place if there was another Contact game in existence!" The game has yet to be officially announced. Notes References External links 2006 video games Atlus games Cancelled Game Boy Advance games Grasshopper Manufacture games Marvelous Entertainment games Multiplayer and single-player video games Multiplayer online games Nintendo DS games Nintendo DS-only games Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection games Role-playing video games Video games about video games Video games developed in Japan Video games scored by Masafumi Takada Video games set on fictional planets Rising Star Games games