Here's something new - 12 min long trailer.
Only 1,5 week to go!
BTW, that trailer really needs attention. It introduces a lot of content.
You can give orders to NPC members-- it says so in the in-game instructions. It's just like giving your accessory commands.Also I don't know if you can give instructions to your story NPCs or not.
I know that no one cares, but according to the weekly leak, FW got 8/9/9/9 in this week's Famitsu.
The leaker stated that the guy deducted points for setting & storyline going too far or something like that
Not much of a spoiler, right when the demo begins, you are told "lying down" is a crime, so you have to sleep while sitting.The story does sound pretty ridiculous.
A world where no one has any rights or freedom. Everything is commoditized, everything can be a guilt, everything can make you a prisoner of a million years sentence, and you have to reduce your sentence bit-by-bit by fighting against giant monsters, rescuing other humans.
Nick spoiled a little bit of the story elements in the Gamespot stream, where he said something like 'even walking more than 10 steps' can be considered a crime, and your battle is to earn your right to be able to do things that a human deserves.
The story does sound pretty ridiculous.
A world where no one has any rights or freedom. Everything is commoditized, everything can be a guilt, everything can make you a prisoner of a million years sentence, and you have to reduce your sentence bit-by-bit by fighting against giant monsters, rescuing other humans.
Nick spoiled a little bit of the story elements in the Gamespot stream, where he said something like 'even walking more than 10 steps' can be considered a crime, and your battle is to earn your right to be able to do things that a human deserves.
Now we know why the game called as Panopticon before.Not much of a spoiler, right when the demo begins, you are told "lying down" is a crime, so you have to sleep while sitting.
The game is indeed inspired by 1984. I think they aren't even trying to hide it.
Not much of a spoiler, right when the demo begins, you are told "lying down" is a crime, so you have to sleep while sitting.
Why should they try to hide the fact that the game is inspired by such an awesome book?
Why should they try to hide the fact that the game is inspired by such an awesome book?
They aren't hiding it, but they aren't selling it either.
I may be wrong. because my Japanese is shit, but all the trailers so far has only emphasised the world and the setting only in the sense of "these are why you and your friends are fighting", without trying to act like there's any deeper meaning to it.
The marketing focus, imo, has been a lot on the characters, and is basically selling your hero journey as you meet the mysterious blonde girl, be entangled into a personal journey, bond with your friends and fight the ash-blonde evil rival.
Kinda like an anime. =)
I know that no one cares, but according to the weekly leak, FW got 8/9/9/9 in this week's Famitsu.
They aren't hiding it, but they aren't selling it either.
I may be wrong. because my Japanese is shit, but all the trailers so far has only emphasised the world and the setting only in the sense of "these are why you and your friends are fighting", without trying to act like there's any deeper meaning to it.
The marketing focus, imo, has been a lot on the characters, and is basically selling your hero journey as you meet the mysterious blonde girl, be entangled into a personal journey, bond with your friends and fight the ash-blonde evil rival.
Kinda like an anime. =)
They aren't hiding it, but they aren't selling it either.
I may be wrong. because my Japanese is shit, but all the trailers so far has only emphasised the world and the setting only in the sense of "these are why you and your friends are fighting", without trying to act like there's any deeper meaning to it.
The marketing focus, imo, has been a lot on the characters, and is basically selling your hero journey as you meet the mysterious blonde girl, be entangled into a personal journey, bond with your friends and fight the ash-blonde evil rival.
Kinda like an anime. =)
The marketing does remind me of. "There is a secret behind everything, find out after getting your freedom!" xD They have stated several times that that's is what they are going for though. And of course, CMs are meant to emphasize the cool ways to play to get more people to buy it.Danganronpa's first case
That's one of the template of Japanese game/novel storyline, and main audience love that setting, so I'm ok with that (I like it too).
So it's pretty much expected that the game is going to keep the Japanese voice overs, right?
I ask simply because the game does have that text-to-speech thing for the player's inputted name.
What this? Can somebody please translate this pic?
Got it from here
http://www.jp.playstation.com/scej/online/vcjs10009.html
Been playing the JP demo over and over again, and got all the weapons (thanks warningjab), yet my hype level for this game is still increasing exponentially. Cant wait for the localized version =)
thruster board for high speed movement around the field
this is the one game where attack on titan colab outfits would make sense. it was so WAT in monster hunter
- Abductors seem to have health bars? (I hate not being able to know how much damage I've done to a monster except for % based visual cues)
btw I used Google translate on the website, and there is a list of prefectures of Japan, so I would guess this is the prize for the winner prefectures right? If that is true, man this would really encourage competition and online play
Well the prize isn't limited to the first place: prefectures ranked 1-5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 will get it (list in Japanese).They have an overall health bar, but for the individual parts - afaik - you can only have an idea of it's life when you try to break the part personally with the knife (the mash-to-break thing).
They'd need to balance it so Tokyo doesn't win everything by brute force
The story does sound pretty ridiculous.
A world where no one has any rights or freedom. Everything is commoditized, everything can be a guilt, everything can make you a prisoner of a million years sentence, and you have to reduce your sentence bit-by-bit by fighting against giant monsters, rescuing other humans.
Nick spoiled a little bit of the story elements in the Gamespot stream, where he said something like 'even walking more than 10 steps' can be considered a crime, and your battle is to earn your right to be able to do things that a human deserves.
thruster board for high speed movement around the field
this is the one game where attack on titan colab outfits would make sense. it was so WAT in monster hunter
Ridiculous is where you get good video game settings from.
Can't sleep lying down, can use hoverboard. Again, aptly ridiculous.
I'm glad that my home prefecture is Tokyo.im going to have to represent my home prefecture of miyagi or yamaguchi
Don't get me wrong, I love ridiculous. But my sceptical side is always concerned the crazy ends up being highlighted as a negative point, like some game reviewers with games like Danganronpa, instead of simply being seen as a differentiating unique point.
Well, you do have a lot of rights in the battlefield...
Representing prefectures? You're free to choose the one you want, it's not using gps etc.how is that going to work if i import it....
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Representing prefectures? You're free to choose the one you want, it's not using gps etc.
I think I'll download this later.
How is the animation, camera control and general feel of movement? I feel Japanese devs tend to do such a poor job in these areas, especially in hunting games like this.
Soul Sacrifice Delta does pretty well on those areas...
did not find any problems camera or movement in the demo.
How did you get the spear? I must have put at least a dozen hours into it and have got only a chunk of guns to show for it.What this? Can somebody please translate this pic?
Got it from here
http://www.jp.playstation.com/scej/online/vcjs10009.html
Been playing the JP demo over and over again, and got all the weapons (thanks warningjab), yet my hype level for this game is still increasing exponentially. Cant wait for the localized version =)
ah good that isn't gps but how are they going to make people not pick one of the top prefecture over others or their own?
Honor and shame play a huge role in their culture.