2009-04-16, 07:00 AM
I always thought this was a really odd decision. Though I've never actually played one of the additional titles (I'm generally portable-phobic, but I import whenever possible... only the newer region-free consoles have ever given me enough reason to buy games outside Japan's market) ...and I've always like Wizardry in theory (though I've yet to finish one -- I actually have all of the classic titles in Japanese through 5 or 7 -- the boxes/manuals are better than the games!!) ....it seems like KF would be the perfect sort of series to live on in portable form (even though it completely kills the whole immersive first person aspect -- but hell if I can get a portable to output to a TV I'll think about it) the way series like Castlevania have thrived on portables. KF certaintly doesn't do anything a PSP like portable can't do in spades, and the rough lofi graphics of KF are pretty much a staple I think.
When news spread about a PSP KF game, everyone thought it would just be a KF2 port/remake or something. But what we got is probably even worse. Something that doesn't even look or play like KF (a guaranteed black sheep more or less)
Speaking of which, I wish people would stop saying Demons' Souls (or whatever the s/apostrophe combination is) is the spiritual successor of KF. I'm glad to see DS, because it proves From' is working on contemporary generation assets in the pseudo medieval motif of KF. But it is no way a substitute, or even a supplement as far as I'm concerned. It's obviously so radically different, it's like calling Frame Gride or whatever that game (I ever meant to try) was called a successor to KF or AC (speaking of which, I wonder if there was a Moonlight in that game??)
When news spread about a PSP KF game, everyone thought it would just be a KF2 port/remake or something. But what we got is probably even worse. Something that doesn't even look or play like KF (a guaranteed black sheep more or less)
Speaking of which, I wish people would stop saying Demons' Souls (or whatever the s/apostrophe combination is) is the spiritual successor of KF. I'm glad to see DS, because it proves From' is working on contemporary generation assets in the pseudo medieval motif of KF. But it is no way a substitute, or even a supplement as far as I'm concerned. It's obviously so radically different, it's like calling Frame Gride or whatever that game (I ever meant to try) was called a successor to KF or AC (speaking of which, I wonder if there was a Moonlight in that game??)