Who's crying out for more JRPGs? If you've played one, you've played them all. Can't we have real RPGs instead? Y'know, the kind that aren't just crudely interactive movies.

Uhhh, it's an ARPG...Quite a bit different from the standard traditional JRPG...

Maybe you should have at least read the title of the article before you started bitching.

Well you know Morari he's a troll without a cause.

This could be very cool; I've seen some screens from Famitsu's website, and it looks quite similar to Shadow of the Colossus (although the graphics aren't as good, despite the cool pencil filter).  But... Jaleco?  Who knew they still existed?

I believe Jaleco published a handful of gamecube ps2 and xbox games in Japan and America, I think this is a new Jaleco like how the new Acclaim is now a MMO publisher of all things.

I would like to own your apparently-very-pretty copy of Shadow of the Colossus, because in mine the visuals are pretty assy... :tpg:

Try hooking it up to a television.

More fun to play, but still not an RPG.

Did they fix the framerate since the preview build I saw at a GC waaaaaay back?

I'm sure hooking it up to a toilet gets similar results...

I'd buy a re-released version of the game if they DID fix it... =\

Well, maybe the game will have somewhat robust character creation and interesting quests. Then again, this is Japan and they never seem to be too interested in those two things.

I don't like character creation anyway, you have to decide loads of things about how you'll play the game before you even know how things work. It's better to have player-driven character development instead (i.e. developing the character how you see fit as you progress) but even that often has buy-before-you-try moments with skills and such. Doesn't help that often all the hints you get about something beforehand are manual-quality, describing every crappy pea shooter as a superweapon and pretending status alterations are useful (yet they turn out to be pretty useless as enemies die so fast that wasting time on the status is pointless and anything you fight long enough to actually need these things on is immune).

IOW it would be a lot easier to make decisions about your character a priori if you actually had decent documentation that tells you how good something really is ("does less damage than your regular attack, only useful if the target is weak to fire").

Of course I bet a lot of that is pride, no developer wants to admit they just added 30 practically useless spells.

SotC's frame rate isn't perfect, but I don't think it's bad.  In terms of art direction and overall technical polish (especially lighting and draw distance), it's one of the best looking games of last gen.

Well, in the preview build I played it was worse than Ocarina of Time or the DS version of Brothers In Arms. It may have had pretty graphics but that doesn't excuse a crippling framerate when only the world and maybe 1-2 objects are onscreen. Of course the graphics are prettier than games that actually take care not to overstep the bounds of the system they're on. EDF has an excuse for its framerate (hundreds of giant ants) but that part of SotC had just the character standing in an empty building.