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Ranko Tsukigimes Longest Day (Suda51, Crispy's) localization announced
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GuitarAtomik
Member
Whoaaaa. That looks pretty cool. Why I have I never heard of this Short Piece either?
FrostuTheNinja
Member
Bu wha gonna buy wha thuh...
:O
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CamHostage
Member
There might be a Blu-Ray also (and it might include the game, as this is how Short Peace is releasing for homes in Japan) but it sounds to me like Short Peace is a PSN exclusive digital release, movie and game.
According to the press release, "NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. today announced that SHORT PEACE and Ranko Tsukigimes Longest Day will be coming to the Americas in spring 2014 exclusively for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. "
Suda51 is only listed as the producer. You guys can take your balls home now.
Still looks neat.
GoodMorningPluto
Member
Why did it sold only 2k copies? By the trailer game looks interesting.
distantmantra
Member
There better be a Blu-ray of the movie, or I'll just buy it in Japan in April.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Not 6000+ yen interesting.
distantmantra
Member
There is also a movie-only Blu-ray release, so I'm guessing most people just bought that and weren't interested in the game.
Gameboy415
Member
Wow, this looks fantastic!
I'd love a physical copy but it seems to be quite pricey to import at the moment. :S
I'd love a physical copy but it seems to be quite pricey to import at the moment. :S
thequickandthedead
Member
I'm pretty sure he was the producer on that one.
FlashbladeGAF
Member
Suda was the Director, Writer and Game Design for Liberation Maiden
Suda will be the Director, Writer and Game Designer for the newly announced game Lily Bergamo
He hasn't been this hands on since No More Heroes 1 and Fatal Frame IV
digita1alchemy
Member
Will this be retail or digital? Or do we know yet?
zeopower6
Member
Seems like because they're bringing over the set of movies digitally, we're also getting Ranko.
I think it mainly sold 2,000~ copies because it was a compilation of shorts and people just aren't as interested.
Not sure where the PS3 version fared a few weeks ago but the movie on its own moved about 3,000~ copies.
http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=736823
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUutRy-zkZk
Seems like they are bundling everything together if this reveal trailer is anything to go by.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Looks cool. I'm already sold.
are we sure this isn't going to be a BR/PS3 hybrid like uh... Tekken Hybrid?
zeopower6
Member
We don't usually get many of those here (Japan gets them way more often... Macross Frontier's movie(s?), .hack//The Movie, Eureka Seven, etc) so I don't know if they'd want to bring that over...
It seems like a bunch of news outlets also got info saying that Ranko was PSN-only.
Never heard of it before, but a quick google search and it features some hometown and animation by BONES? So cool, I wish I had a 3DS.
I don't believe. Killer is Dead also got the "hey he's the director" interviews, but look at what happened. I refuse to believe that he's director until his name shows up as such in the game; also he's not credited as the director of Liberation Maiden. I looked through the credits recently and nope, it's someone else.
Freezasaurus
Member
Catherine [thankfully] got localized.
I just heard about this game today, and I already need it in my veins.
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
Wow, this looks really interesting.
So it's those 4 short movies AND the game that's getting localized, right?
So it's those 4 short movies AND the game that's getting localized, right?
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
Hah, announced in the very same week that my copy turns up.
King Gilga
Member
That's a really nice menu. Makes me want to pick up the game.
I'd have real trouble paying full price for a sidescroller these days though, not surprised to sold so horribly.
Hope they bring it over as a PSN games at a budget price.
CamHostage
Member
As has been said, it's a possibility, but it doesn't sound likely (also, Japan is terrified of reverse-importation, I'm not sure it'd make sense to them to ship in America within the same year as Japan and charge less than the $60 or so this movie costs in Japan?) The BD isn't up on RightStuf or Amazon, but then again, not everything Bandai Namco announced yesterday is up on Amazon just yet.
Actually, I wonder if the Short Peace release on PSN will be the four pieces and the game as we think it will be, or if they might actually sell "Short Peace" as a bundled product. I'm not sure if PSN can release "ISOs" of BDs that would run self-contained (these hybrid discs must also have forked content pockets for video and game material) but they for sure can use PSN's bundling system to require you to purchase all components at once if that's the deal. I'm sure the Japanese licensers would prefer Short Peace be experienced as it was meant to be seen rather than piecemeal. (Although then again, Combustion is touring separate and is in awards contention, so maybe I'm talking out of my ass...)
If they don't go that route, most fans will be happy as they can buy what they want, so hope for that... can't get that menu though. (BTW, why does downloadable video still not have menus, I saw playable menu system demos in the MP4 format like 10 years ago.)
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
Didn't they do that with the Team ICO HD set? Not sure about quality now I think about it.
As far as the SP disc goes, when played on a PS3 the video content is stashed under the video list, with the game in the game list on the XMB.
On a sidenote, I didn't realise that hybrid discs are playable on dedicated blu ray players (ie not a PS3) until someone in the pickups thread asked me to test the theory. It kicks straight into the movie, no problem (mine is a hacked region-free player).
Zeyphersan
Banned
Man, all these games coming out ensure I won't be retiring my PS3 for a LONGG time
HyperZone<3
Member
that trailer kinda looks like the film is included with this.
is the whole anthology film included with the game? Because why else would the english trailer show any other parts of the movie?
is the whole anthology film included with the game? Because why else would the english trailer show any other parts of the movie?
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
Completely forgot about this. Will import
CamHostage
Member
Perhaps, and that is for sure how Square Enix is going to sell FF X/X-2 HD on PSN, if I remember correctly they stated that they don't plan on selling them individually.
Quality has nothing to do with it though, it's just two downloads (or Short Peace could be one full-length movie download for Chapter Stops to each short film... PSN MP4 does allow Chapter Stops, I hope?) sold through a single credit card transaction.
Right, there's a content fork on the disc. A standard player goes to the video folder; the PS3 crawls the content tree and displays content under both media pockets. Pretty cool way to distribute content. Doesn't seem like the BD can reference the game once in Video Mode (the Ranko game is not on ThePeoplesBureau's menu, right?) to cross-boot, but still lots of options in the box. I assume the option to write discs this way might work with other BD players (say Microsoft wanted to put some Halo game on the Halo TV BD; doesn't the Star Wars DVD/Battlefront II demo work that way?) but Sony has always had this multimedia layout as part of its disc format plans, going back to PSP UMDs even if I remember right.
PSN distribution of Short Peace will be done its own way, however.
Yes, Bandai Namco is distributing the game and the film on PSN. (However, it seems more like the game is included in the film rather than the other way around ... assuming they are bundled, don't expect to pay like $15 for a PSN side-scroller and get a free movie out of the deal.)
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
Correct. The game has its own menu with no reference to the video section, and the same with the video menu - so it's back to XMB if you want to re-open one or the other.
KojiKnight
Member
Curiosity is a strong and powerful force.... I clicked the video not knowing what to expect, and I left wanting a game I'd never heard of before. Well played Suda51.
distantmantra
Member
I'm sorry, but if they're distributing the film only via digital channels, I'm going to buy the hybrid disc while in Japan...
Same here.
Why did this only sell 2000 copies? The trailer if anything looks great.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but Lily Bergamo's director is Nobutaka Ichiki.
http://gematsu.com/2013/09/lily-bergamo-protagonist-named-tae-ioroi