Everyone's favorite Japan-only game developer is teaming up with Sega for the revival of a classic genre on the PlayStation 3. First revealed in this week's Famitsu, Chunsoft's Imabikisou is a "sound novel" that promises to be so scary that you'll want to keep your friends close by when playing.
The storyline of Imabikisou revolves around a drug called "Vision" which seems to be responsible for a string of mysterious deaths. The game's main character and heroine, attempting to flee the curse of the drug, travel to a mansion that is believed to be the source of all the problems. There, they get themselves caught up in a mystery involving a strange flower, the Imabikisou of the title.
If you're into the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books with a mix of "Silent Hill", then this would be the game for you! Also, it'd be good to know kanji...
Nintendic writes: "Publisher SEGA and developer Chunsoft are teaming up to bring the first, but surely not the last, ever port of a game from the PlayStation 3 console to Nintendo's far-weaker Wii system. The game? A reworking of Imabikisou from last year, which shocked many by charting quite high in the Media Create Top 10 upon launch, but plummeted out of sight very quickly indeed soon afterwards."
Nintendo Wii getting cutdown PlayStation 3 port from SEGA.
Still, good news for Wii owners, they need this kinda stuff taking place.
Capt CHAOS - I don't think it needs to be cut down...
"Imabikisou is a game made up of mainly static photographs..."
That is how a Wii is getting a PS3 title.
99% of 3rd party titles on the Wii are disasters even before they reach the sales floor.
640x400 size, add on motion controll to allow mouse like movement and call it a day.
...............720x480.....
" A 16:9 aspect ratio is defined at 720x480 pixels, using non-square, anamorphic sampling.
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ofcourse if they use 16:9
Anyone else didn't even knew that this game existed? :S
Well, anyway, good for the Wii. Next port will be Uncharted.
Dale North from Destructoid writes:
"I saw Imabikisou (above) in Tokyo last year. With its freaky pictures and eyeball closeups, I thought I had stumbled onto the newest survival horror. Unfortunately it turned out to be a digital graphic horror novel. Meh."
the story sound interesting still need to see some gameplay or pics tought
interesting though is thats it appears to be an exclusive... i wonder if it's timed exclusive like VF5... weather or not it's still cool that ps3 still can muster exclusives from 3rd party. still it arouses interest
Don't we have E-Readers and audio books for this?