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PS3 exclusive Ni-Oh still in the works

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Way back in 2005, Koei showed off an action game for the PS3 called Ni-oh. While details were very slim on it, the game was about a group of monks assigned to protect Buddha. Ni-oh is based off a script of a movie penned by the famous Japanese director Akira Kurowasa. The movie, which was set to be Kurowasa's sons directoral debut, was cancelled, and after no new info on the game for several years, many wrote the game off as well.

However, the latest Famitsu confirms that the project is still in development, exclusive for the PS3. Details outside of that are still slim.
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Published: 217 days 20 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3
 
 

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Unbiased1 - 217 days 20 hours ago
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PS3 is going to have huge year in Japan, with price cut, FF13 and bunch of other games, wow.
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gambare - 217 days 19 hours ago
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yeah, it's going to be a great year for the PS3... but I'm not sure about... you know...


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himdeel - 217 days 7 hours ago
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1.2 - Lost it when I read "...script of a movie penned by the famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa"...
...I just got chills. It's Kurosawa they spelled his name wrong. Anyway I've loved his films every since I saw the 7 Samurai. Seems like it could be awesome.
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morganfell - 217 days 20 hours ago
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As a Kurosawa (they have the letters reversed) aficionado, I am glad to see this effort. Good chambara are hard to find in the cinema these days and Kurosawa's were the standard partly because they were atypical of the genre. Score one more for the PS3.
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ThanatosDMC - 217 days 19 hours ago
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Oh noes! More REAL exclusives...! See what i did there?

(Lame... i got a phantom disagree)
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SaiyanFury - 217 days 11 hours ago
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Good post, morganfell, I also await the game. PS3 has the exclusive advantage this gen. I look forward to it.
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aldesko - 217 days 3 hours ago
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I want to play as Mifune
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morganfell - 216 days 23 hours ago
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Thanks Saiyan. The influence of Kurosawa was so broad. And remember, without The Hidden Fortress there would be no Star Wars and without Yojimbo there would be no Man With No Name.
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shadowfox - 217 days 20 hours ago
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can't believe the game is still coming out. i wonder if we'll be seeing any other 2005 games coming up
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Steven Colbert - 217 days 19 hours ago
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Eyedentify perhaps?

http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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T-What - 217 days 18 hours ago
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I really hope eyedentify comes back its still one of mu most anticipated games.
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mastiffchild - 217 days 13 hours ago
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shadowfox-mymate knows a guy from Digiguys and he swears blind despite my laughing hugely when he says it that Wardevil WILL definitely be out in November.

Is that 2005 enough for you? I think my mates full of sh1t but, I guess, if he's right I'll have to rake him more seriously. Not holding my breath though as it still feels as distant as Duke Nukem Forever to me.

On topic-not enough games about monks. And where is the action RPG I ordered about the life of Rasputin? With strange mind bending powers all intact. It's a winner, call me. Someone, please, call me and we'll make it happen!Honest!
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gauntletpython - 217 days 19 hours ago
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I might be more excited if it wasn't made by Koei. They always seem to be right on the verge of something great, but always just miss the mark.
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Unicron - 217 days 19 hours ago
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Next, bring back 8 Days as a mix between Uncharted/Gears and GTA. :-D
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7ero H3LL - 217 days 19 hours ago
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this has been in development for a little over 4 years, had little to almost no info on it since it's debet, and yet alan wake is called the game that never woke up.
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xabmol - 217 days 19 hours ago
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6.1 - lol yer funny
It's not like PS3 owners are having to wait for the one last exclusive that may never even come out.

xD
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raztad - 217 days 19 hours ago
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yeah, but the difference is that nobody is hyping this game or waiting anything from it. It is more like a good surprise. Anyway Japaneses are the ones to enjoy this if ever released.
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Microsoft Xbox 360 - 217 days 19 hours ago
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Alan Wake is overhyped for 4 years plus.

This Ni-Oh game is pretty much news to me.
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GUNS N SWORDS - 217 days 19 hours ago
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well, lets try it the ps3 gamer's way shall we, we hype the game for 3 1/2 years busting our asses hyping the game to kingdomcome and push out barely over a million units on day one.

OR we let the developers do it them selves :)
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ultimolu - 217 days 19 hours ago
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Ooooooh, I remember this one!

I think it's like Onimusha. *___*
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jkhan - 217 days 19 hours ago
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It feels more like Dynasty Warriors
http://www.gametrailers.com...
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Timesplitter14 - 217 days 19 hours ago
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Great Jesus Sandwich this is so old!
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vegnadragon - 217 days 19 hours ago
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Akira Kurowasa was the director for seven samurai, one of the best movies of all time, i think it is on he top 10 in imdb.
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jack who - 217 days 19 hours ago
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lol
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ZuperAmazingCooKie - 217 days 19 hours ago
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11.1 - nothing better to say?
lol
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jkhan - 217 days 19 hours ago
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There are two video trailers on gametrailers.com
It seems like Dynasty Warrior type of game. I doubt we will see this anytime before TGS09. Sony already has this year packed with announced exclusives. They just need to make sure to release either GT5 or God of War 3 as the big X-Mas title.
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Godmars290 - 217 days 19 hours ago
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This just screams - another - Dynasty Warriors clone to me.
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patterson - 217 days 19 hours ago
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Kurosawa films tell great stories. If you're going to base a game on one of his scripts, an RPG would've been a better genre to go on than an action game IMO. Since I imagine character development and dialogue would be needed to flesh out the original vision.

Also his movies are usually looong so it makes more sense to do an RPG as well.

I'll take a wait and see approach with this one.
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OrganicMachine - 217 days 19 hours ago
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lolz, looking back at Koei's track record... I'm not really anticipating this game..
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gauntletpython - 217 days 4 hours ago
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Also wonder if the game will be exclusive... what's the last exclusive that Koei made?
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Andreas-Sword - 217 days 3 hours ago
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@ gauntletpython:

The game "Ni-Oh" is PS3 exclusive.

And, here are the last exclusive games of KOEI:
"Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce"= PSP exclusive

"Warriors Orochi Z"= PS3 exclusive

"Monster Racers"= NDS exclusive

"Samurai Warriors 3"= Wii exclusive

;)
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ps3freak18 - 217 days 18 hours ago
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Wow, this game had completely slipped my mind up until now. I'll be interested to hear more about it.
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ironmonkey - 217 days 18 hours ago
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i hear nothing but new exclusives and games in development man im one happy ps3 owner. i also own a 360 but i dont buy games for that :D hint hint..
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GUNS N SWORDS - 217 days 17 hours ago
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like Dynasty Warriors?

....is that good?
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Andreas-Sword - 217 days 15 hours ago
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yes, this is a interesting game...
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Andreas-Sword - 217 days 15 hours ago
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This is not an another Dynasty Warriors clone.
This is a different game.

Here is a image:
http://image.com.com/gamesp...
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nefertis - 217 days 11 hours ago
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Koei please don't be cheap give ps3 owners wat they want use the cell processor. Trust me it will sell the game more.
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