Who is this supposed to appeal to in Japan?
Playstation-loyal former MonHun players in their early 20's who want to become sociopaths?
Monster designs are very reminiscent of Shadow Hearts. Obviously Marvelous AQL is a far cry from the original SH team, but maybe there's an artist or two left behind.
I am not seeing any blood or gore in the actual screenshots lol.
Yeah I see some but not much.One of the Werecerberus shots has him spewing forth a geyser of blood, but that's about it.
Do you know if they all actually left? If they didn't, a large chunk of the SH team actually formed Feel Plus. Last I checked a lot of them still worked on NNN2.
No idea - but feel plus has made a handful of games since forming and nothing has looked as Shadow Hearts-y as this. Granted, nothing else they've made has had a horror element since SH, but still, this is the first time I've had that Shadow Hearts feeling about them.
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I assume this is what happen if you sacrifice your team mate.
Exactly.
I don't know. I was just expecting it to be...more appealing to the mass market, especially here in Japan. Been sub-15K a week here for months and they need something to appeal to a wide audience. It was just beaten by the Wii in Golden Week sales. That's pretty pathetic.
Exactly.
I don't know. I was just expecting it to be...more appealing to the mass market, especially here in Japan. Been sub-15K a week here for months and they need something to appeal to a wide audience. It was just beaten by the Wii in Golden Week sales. That's pretty pathetic.
A lot of LO was pretty SH-y in terms of design and modeling. Some of the backgrounds for the towns, the boss monster designs, etc. The characters not so much.
The artwork for the stage designs are kinda crazy
I really want to see some vids of how this plays. Should we be expecting this at E3 or TGS?
you know, the actual screenshot of games does not looks gory at all, it's just the art so far.
Do you have Sony stock or something?
I'm beginning to think the entire point of this is that it's Inafune's "put up or shut up", non-Japanesey concept.
In-game doesn't look as hardcore as the concepts, as I expected, but I really don't think this looks any grosser than a MK or GoW game. I couldn't get into GoW partly because of the gore, but this isn't bothering me at all. Yet anyway.
Yeah I'm hoping they're nice, big, open environments and not bottlenecked arenas to compensate for it being on a handheld (even though I think it could handle it). Still looks REALLY promising and very fresh, and disgusting. It's just what I wanted - now all we need is to see the big video unveiling to (hopefully) confirm the gameplay is solid.
I thought the same, which is why I was so excited about LO. But I was talking purely from a character/monster perspective. SH was always defined by its twisted looking monsters and this looks to be the same.
I'm beginning to think the entire point of this is that it's Inafune's "put up or shut up", non-"Japanesey" concept.
In-game doesn't look as hardcore as the art, as I expected, but I really don't think this looks any grosser than a MK or GoW game. I couldn't get into GoW partly because of the gore, but this isn't bothering me at all. Yet anyway.
It's not that strange, is it? I want to see the system succeed simply because I enjoy using it so much. It's a fantastic machine and poor sales will ultimately kill it.Do you have Sony stock or something?