Gametrailers.com interviews Akihiro Hino (CEO/President of Level-5) and Yoshiaki Kusuda (Senior Vice President) about their upcoming PS3 exclusive, White Knight Story.
Follow the link for a HD version.
PlayStation Universe reviews the black and white ghostly adventure.
Kotaku - "When Team Kotaku first started planning out our Last-Gen Heroes feature, I started thinking about how JRPGs have evolved over the past generation—a generation that some would argue has been disastrous for the genre. Between a polarizing thirteenth Final Fantasy, a number of forgettable slogs like Infinite Undiscovery and some alarming ventures in the world of free-to-play, the Wii-Xbox360-PS3 era seemed more than a little scary for JRPG fans."
Yeah I agree. Back in 2007 there was folklore on ps3 and lost odyssey on xbox. I thought those two were the start of something good for both consoles but it wasn't to be I guess.
ARM Architecture Softwares (Source-Code, Plugins, Game-Engine, Tools) is more readily available, at far cheaper price that make Game development much easier than Wii-Xbox360-PS3 PowerPC architecture.
Its not Hardware that makes game development easier, its Software, just as Sony's PhyreGameEngine did to solve the Complex Cell Architecture that scares away many JRPG developer to mobile.
Its Software, that makes the difference. I hope Sony PhyreEngine 4.0 is a key to revive JRPG on Playstation.
For me, Valkyria Chronicles and Tales of Xillia top it. It's a close race, though.
Despite common notions, there were quite a few standout JRPGs on consoles this gen. many of them just didn't get the exposure they deserved.
neither of those are traditional JRPG either and none have immortal characters or the same kind of emotional story telling... the dream notes were some of the best writing ever to this day
"Traditional," you say, but JRPGs come in so many varieties, that hardly has meaning. Plus, you didn't specify it had to be a "traditional" JRPG, anyway. And how would Xillia not count?
Furthermore, what do immortals have to do with anything? I mean, do games with immortals score more points?
Don't get me wrong, I think Lost Odyssey is awesome. It's one of two games I own for 360(which I don't actually have one of). But the story in VC, in particular, gripped me like nothing has since Persona 3.
still think story and story background in LO was heads and shoulders above... especially the background story and how it was told... at times I got dust in my eyes because of it >_> .... <_< .... ah eff it I teared up...
Only if most of the popular ones are getting localized and not getting stuck in Japan.
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very nice graphics and the fights seem realistic. i game i should keep my eye on.
can't wait for this one
I would count in is Folklore and Eye of Judgment.
Last one seems most fun in my book, because it's longevity seems more vibrant and exciting. Expensive though here it will be $120 standard with the 32 card deck coming with it....
But WKS(C?) will haxxorz my soxxorz
want it now!!!
the interview was definitely interesting, but the footage they used was from the old TGS build from *LAST year, which was basically a sort of in engine mock up of what they wanted the game to be at the time.
since then, the art style has changed quite a bit, though it's no less jaw-droppingly beautiful.
what i like about Level 5, is that they made a pre-vis video that actually seemed *ATTAINABLE, and have met, and in a lot of ways, *EXCEEDED that initial pre-vis. they rode the line very well, whereas, say, Guerilla Games bit off more than they could chew with that old E3 CG trailer, and even though they've come *INSANELY CLOSE to that video, Killzone 2 isn't 100% like that trailer, but no less *FANTASTIC looking.
White Knight Story is going to be awesome, as i don't think Level 5 have made a bad RPG yet, really. they truly are becoming the new Squaresoft in terms of releasing quality games.