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Report: Muramasa and Odin Sphere Getting Downloadable HD Ports

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Willy105 said:
It's harder to make a high res picture than a sprite. With a sprite you move pixels around to make animation, with higher es art you need to make even more detail.
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But you are drawing out the animation instead of overlaying pixels on an already drawn picture...im thinking all of the art in Vanillaware games is already in HD (its hard to make details a blurry resolution unless you downsized something with detail already on it) they just lowered the resolution til it ran on PS2/Wii
 
geebee said:
Get Odin Sphere if you like item management. Get Muramasa if you like killing things.
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Does Item Management = Collecting a lot of items like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night or Star Ocean?
 
I'm probably going to double dip AND get Odin sphere since I never played it. Now we'll also see if the vocal groups of people who were begging for a port will put their money where their mouth is too.

I hope they put all of their money where their mouth is. The game deserves every single sale. Grudges and fanboyism be damned.
 
Huh. I just started playing it again for the Wii yesterday. I was playing Kisuke's story.

I'm more interested in Odin Sphere, because I haven't played it, but I hope they upgrade the in-game assets and drawings to HD.

Oh... One thing I don't like about XBLA/PSN is that things are cheap there. I bought Muramasa for what I think was the fair price of $50...
 
Muramasa is a great game. I really enjoyed it. Always wanted to pick up Odinsphere but I didn't know it had awful slowdown. It'd be sweet if it came out on PC.
 
I'm down for double dipping on Muramasa and playing Odin Sphere for the first time. I'm actually playing the former right now to get second and thrid endings. The price for both on them should be 1600 Allards each though. The value of those games is worth at least $20.
 
Hmmm...hopefully there will be some gameplay improvements for Odin Sphere. Pretty visuals, but the gameplay wasn't exactly great.
 
Why would you do that? said:
Oh... One thing I don't like about XBLA/PSN is that things are cheap there. I bought Muramasa for what I think was the fair price of $50...
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So you're upset that gamers will be able to play the game at an affordable price?
 
i played both games to death and i'm not going to double dip.

but to those to who haven't tried these games, please please buy them. Vanillaware deserves the sales.
 
Odin Sphere was a bit of a drag, felt really overrated specially after all the hype from some portion of the media, but I would be down to give it a second chance if the price is right.

I'm definitely down for some Muramasa.
 
Muramasa is definitely more fun than odin sphere.

However Odin Sphere had the better writing and environments. The color palette was a lot more varied.
 
ZOMG i love-puddle for this news. my girlfriend asked me once or twice about those games because she didn't know what they were about. i told her to just try it on my wii sometime.

she hasn't yet, and she just got a PS3 so....... PLEASE OH PLEASE Vanilla... PSN?
 
Great. Hopefully this goes towards Vanillaware's next confirmed 2D project. They really are one of my favorite developers right now.

I just wish that Wayforward would find the same love both commercially, critically, and fanbase wise. :(

ULTROS! said:
Will buy both.

What's better though, Odin Sphere or Muramasa?
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Both are incredible.

Odin Sphere is the much deeper game but it's one of those "get it or not" games and it's much more complex. Muramasa is homage to the 8-bit/16-bit Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Spirit type games as it modernizes that genre. So I'd recommend Muramasa.

Really you can't go wrong here both are great games.

No_Style said:
Will probably go for Muramasa. Is it as repetitive as Odin Sphere?
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Yes but it's way shorter, about half the length of Odin Sphere.

It doesn't overstay its welcome.
 
outunderthestars said:
So you're upset that gamers will be able to play the game at an affordable price?
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Maybe it's just me being weird, but I feel like the low prices of games lowers the expectations of what a full-priced game should be. Like Mega Man 9 and 10, which were both $10. Why couldn't both of those full-length games get away with a $20 or $30 price tag?

Also, there seems to be a trend as of late to port full Wii games and release them in HD for cheaper. Dead Space: Extraction, NBA Jam Wii, and now this. If you want to get a full 360/PS3 game, it'll be $60, but this full Wii game, now in HD, $10 or $20 (guesses).

It's not a great argument, but whatever. Of course, I understand the idea (sell a game on Wii, its sales have died down, release a quick port on xbla/psn to make more sales), and as a consumer, of course I love low prices in things, and I am totally looking forward to Odin Sphere and Muramasa to a lesser extent, but yeah.
 
Both are incredible.

Odin Sphere is the much deeper game but it's one of those "get it or not" games and it's much more complex. Muramasa is homage to the 8-bit/16-bit Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Spirit type games as it modernizes that genre. So I'd recommend Muramasa.
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I always figured it was a giant Kage no Densetsu/Legend of Kage tribute.

Awesome games. Hopefully they'll get the respect they deserve, being released to a wider audience and all.
 
Odin Sphere has it's charms and some fun item building and other nonsense, running at a better framerate would help a lot too. It's not a great game, but it's pretty solid and can hook certain types

Muramasa is kinda forgettable. It throws it all on the back of very simplistic combat and is full of so much tedious backtracking that it makes you not even want to suffer through the short game. If you want that kind of sidescrolling BEU experience, you can do better.

Both games are chock full o' eye candy and style, so it's not much of a defense, if you're in it for purely superficial reasons you'll probably dig both, especially with Odin Sphere cleaned up.
 
Odin Sphere I got burned out on at the end, so annoying. Muramasa never really held my interest for long. That said, I see no reason to buy them again.
 
I'm pretty excited for this. I really loved Odin Sphere, and I only played Muramasa a little bit while over at a friends house. If they both go for $10 each digitally, color me sold on day one.
 
Blueblur1 said:
I congratulate you. I couldn't even complete the first character's story. That game was utterly disappointing.
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Yeah I unlocked the 'final chapter' and I saw what I had to do to get the best ending and was like "really? Fuuuuuuuuuuck that."
 
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