Famitsu Weekly was quite interesting this week, with the first images of Trusty Bell, but also with these 2 pages about Culcept Saga, 3 pages about Bullet Witch and nothing less than a 8 pages advertising for Trusty Bell! Namco really believes in this game's potential. Let's just hope the japanese gamers won't just ignore it because it's not on their platform of choice.
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Bullet witch is looking very good aswell.
They had 8 !! pages of adverts for one game ... seems namco really want this game to do well.
8 page ad is serious business, sorta suprising for a Namco game for X360 in a Japanese magazine no less.
I am 90% sure it will come to the west, Namco are pretty good for bring games over to America and Europe.
I've been wanting to make my PS2 import friendly for a while now..
Really looking forward to getting a better look at bullet witch. Also can't wait for some gameplay videos of Trusty Bell.
Bulletwitch still look strong. Very much a title to keep an eye on, imo!
Trusty Bell is looking a bit more interesting. Defintely curious as to hearing more about it in terms of information/interviews.
Also, of course Namco will take Trusty Bell to the west, knowing how scarce is the 360 market in the east it would be suicide to make a game japan only for 360 right now.
Though FPS is almost ZERO appeal to japanese players, But there are reliable numbers of players who loves FPS(not so big tho). Since they were originally PC-gamers and can handle English game(menus, stories etc), There is no reason for them to wait japanese localized copies.
So they got their imported Asian version GRAW copies, and already plays in Live.
And Since imported PC version were here around monthes ago, There is no "switch" from PC gamers. This is why AAA grades 360FPS makes deadly poor sales in japan, and causes another bashing-Japan-thread in TXB. lol
Those nuts in MS Japan have been making this kind of mistake repeatedly, since first Splinter Cell in last gen.
And of course all those incredible powers she has.
Ya know some dev's may WANT TOO but can't afford too..
Culdcept has always been about gameplay the PS2 version was in 2D so there has been a a graphical evolution, maybe not what you are looking for, but if it really bothers you that much then don't buy it.
Seems to me it's not your kind of game. (after all you could go and get a board game from the shop *sigh* I wonder if that would have animated charcacters also)
Fact is some people will enjoy it for what it is and it looks interesting to me, not everyone is a graphics whore.
We call it Next -Gen because it represents a new console generation, this has nothing to do with art style or developers abilities to produce top quailty graphics.
Have you ever thought that some developers just don't want to spend that amount of time and money on a game.
Also, if anyone is looking for Culdcept on PS2...good luck. It is out of print. But I got my copy!
I bought my copy to day it released. The video game store hadnt even heard of it and thought I was crazy.