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[Sickbean]

Holy Crap!

Dat Rayman Engine.

 

[Aaron-Lagann]

Character design is such a turn off for me. no buy at this stage.

Weirdly I feel the same as this, though I'm more turned off by the entirety of the art direction. Don't get me wrong, it all looks really great, just stylistically I'm not really digging it.

 

[Shard]

uPlay not only exists, but is actively growing more and more central to Ubisoft's games.

Don't be surprised if it's integrated into their next-gen titles.

This is what I thought, then I will continue to ignore the games of Ubisoft.

 

[Katana_Strikes]

I found the screenshots to look rather ugly but in seeing it in motion it looks glorious. How weird. Defo buy at the right price.

 

[BishopLamont]

UBIgods.

 

[IdreamofHIME]

Inspired by. The IGN video says that the combat is like Grandia so yeah sidescrolling JRPG style. With skill trees and party members and the like.

Yeah, been reading some stuff from other sites, the lead designer saying his characters are based on Amano art. That's lovely, but again it doesn't make it a JRPG.
Just feels like Ubi wanted a buzz word attached to this for marketing purposes.

 

[Dennis]

"Peggy dodi che"

 

[Clear]

I thought the trailer was a bit charmless myself. The art-style is distinctive but a bit unappealing to me, and the music left me cold, which could explain my disinterest.

 

[SandMan2233]

Are they aiming at a $60 price? Or can we expect maybe $30?

Hopefully we can EXPECT a cheaper price point than $60... Blood Dragon proved to be a huge success for Ubi-Soft (breaking 1,000,000 copies sold on the 8th)... Not at all bad for a $15 game.

So, hopefully Ubi has figured out that, yeah, gamers are willing to jump into a release that cost LESS than $70 million to develop.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

There's another rayman engine game, Valiant Hearts: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/09/10/valiant-hearts-tells-the-story-of-five-wwi-survivors-and-a-dog/

this looks even more intriguing, from the screenshots.

but both games look amazing!

hooray for a 21st century modern 2D game engine with all the trimmings!

 

[AppleMIX]

30-40 dollars seems like a good price (depending on the amount of content of course).

Hmmm I'm interested by not impressed yet. Yeah it looks like a fancy beautiful well made game, but nothing looks very creative, lots of generic fantasy stuff, and that combat seemed real run of the mill. I can't think of a one person party turn-based battle system that's turned out well.

It's not a one person party.

One of the screen shots (combat) clearly shows 2 party members.

 

[PhantomR]

Yet another Ubisoft game that'll be loading up on the hard drive connected to my Wii U. Thanks Ubi!

 

[Feindflug]

That was...that was simply amazing.

And I guess at 60fps? OMFG! O_O

 

[Myshkin]

With all this next gen commotion going on, it's nice to see a good game announced as a multiplat.

 

[Bronetta]

Sounds like an interesting game but that trailer did nothing for me. Same with Valiant Hearts.

 

[Dinda]

That looks very intersting.

 

[princemarth23]

Both this and Valiant Hearts are very intriguing to me, this in particular. Good stuff.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Whoa, pretty. Hope the gameplay's good, 'cause... I really really want this to be good. It could mean more 2D goodness for the future too.

I can't think of a one person party turn-based battle system that's turned out well.

Panzer Dragoon Saga?

 

[Sentenza]

I've seen the trailer. OH GOD, that music...

Oh God, that narrating voice.

It looks incredibly charming, but I must say that judging from the trailer and coming from the previous Rayman, I expected a bit more from animations.

 

[Jay-T]

This is amazing!, i hope they continue making similar games on this engine.

Day 1

 

[SparkTR]

Ubisoft have been pretty great lately, I couldn't care less about their AAA releases but their downloadable stuff has me intrigued. It's also cool that they're investing in both a love letter to JRPGs (this) and a love letter to WRPGs (M&MX).

 

[NewGame]

Maaaaagical! Love it. I hope it plays somewhat like Paper Mario with RPG/Platforming elements.

 

[MarkusRJR]

Looks lovely. Will definitely pick this up assuming no horrifyingly bad reviews.

 

[Tu101uk]

Inspired by. The IGN video says that the combat is like Grandia so yeah sidescrolling JRPG style. With skill trees and party members and the like.

OK, that's peaked my interest a bit more. I already liked what was shown in the trailer (really haunting, and I'm getting Valkyrie Profile vibes from the platforming JRPG stuff), but if there are influences from the IP gauge system from my favourite RPG series, then I'll definitely keep my eyes peeled.

I'm guessing it's the "knowing when your opponent will attack" bit mentioned? I loved that aspect about turn-based battle systems like in Grandia and FFX, adds another layer of tactics to the whole thing.

Colour me intrigued, I guess.

 

[Log4Girlz]

Prettiest game of the 8th generation already.

 

[Blimblim]

HQ version of the trailer incoming.
This game is soooo pretty

 

[JacksUsername]

Looks beautiful!

 

[Kenai]

Day One.

 

[EDarkness]

I'm there day one. The art is pretty fraggin' awesome.

 

[Omikaru]

Looks stunning. I'm in.

All I have to decide now is which platform I get it on. PC, PS4 or Wii U.

 

[CecilRousso]

Not sure if the game is something for me, it's seems like too much of a fairy tale to be really interesting, but it sure is a good looking game.

 

[Nirolak]

-You can interrupt enemy attacks by timing
-You can play co-op with a second player controlling the flame fairy dude

 

[MoogleWizard]

I might be alone in this but while some parts look nice others look like a cheap and low budget indie game to me. The monsters are hardly animated at all.

And why JRPG? Side scrolling and only 10HP, there's no J in this RPG.

 

[Blimblim]

HQ trailer and images
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_child_of_light_annonced-14594_en.html
Strangely the trailer is 30 fps, I don't know if it's an indication of the game's frame rate or not.

 

[Sentenza]

And why JRPG? Side scrolling and only 10HP, there's no J in this RPG.

I'm frankly not sure what you are trying to claim.

First, this isn't strictly a JRPG, they just claimed inspiration from some JRPG battle system.
Second, you are almost implying that "10 HP" would be something typical of WRPGs, which is just not true.
In fact, I'm not sure how the number of HPs should tell anything about the genre and provenience. At most it's related with the kind of ruleset/balance they are going for.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Plattform?

It's Ubisoft; everything that'll run it.

 

[ViviOggi]

Child of Light’s entire script is a 120-page epic poem penned by Far Cry 3 writer Jeffrey Yohalem.

Why would they do this?

 

[Village]

HeEEEAAAAAy


Interestng, interested.

I will keep the watch.

 

[ZoddGutts]

-You can interrupt enemy attacks by timing

A big plus for me. Love Grandia type battle system.

 

[Tiops]

It has the same action bar used in Grandia games. Day 0.

 

[AppleMIX]

I might be alone in this but while some parts look nice others look like a cheap and low budget indie game to me. The monsters are hardly animated at all.

And why JRPG? Side scrolling and only 10HP, there's no J in this RPG.

JRPG/WRPG is a completely pointless classification.

 

[Corto]

Reserve a PC and a PS4 version for me. Looks fantastic.

 

[Phat Michael]

Music is great. Loved the artwork and trailer. Only negative to me is it seems like turn based battles...

 

[Amon37]

PS4 version bought.

 

[Blimblim]

The B-Roll footage from Ubisoft is from the PS4 version (or PC with PS4 prompts), 1080p30. It's still beautiful and very well animated at 30 fps, but let's hope for 60!

 

[Qvoth]

so this is basically grandia 3 or star ocean 3's battle system?
fuck yes!

 

[Durante]

Now this is something I'll get day 1.

Please let the PC version be not infested with UPlay. Do they still do that with games?

Uplay really is totally inoffensive these days. It just sits there and leaves you alone. I have no issue with it.

 

[RaikuHebi]

Thank goodness Rayman's engine isn't going to waste. This is going to be the 2D equivalent of Source.

 

[dragonelite]

Return of the 2D platformers?

 

[Sentenza]

Uplay really is totally inoffensive these days. It just sits there and leaves you alone. I have no issue with it.

well, it's much more harmless than in the past, sure, but I'm still not particularly happy of having to rely on Ubisoft's shitty account system.

A service that doesn't even leave you the freedom of changing your email doesn't exactly strike me as well thought and reliable in the long run, for instance, and having every single publisher trying to push their own store/service on you it's not something I'm particularly happy about.
I would gladly do without it.