We’ve just heard that the short yet incredibly epic Anime series FLCL (Fooly Cooly) will be returning to Cartoon Network’s Toonami in October! FLCL will be taking IGPX’s place, time spot and all, after the racing Anime’s finale on October the 19th, there will be a double episode that night. Cowboy Bebop will also be heading off Toonami for a little while and Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex will be having a break after the 19th of October. As of right now we don’t know exactly what is going to replace these shows, we just know that FLCL is back in and hopefully that will bump up the ratings because, apparently, they haven’t been doing well lately.
Last week on Toonami not one show hit over a million views. This may or may not be the reason for the list change, it could also just be a scheduled change to mix things up. Toonami also did a Q & A today, which was hosted by Tumblr, in which they mentioned that a hug announcement will be coming “some time in the next 30-60 days”. Who knows what that will be at this point in time, I guess we’ll just have to wait and find out.
Hakuoki: Memories of the Shinsengumi Developer:Idea Factory Publisher:Aksys Games Platforms: 3DS (Reviewed), PSP Release Date: September 19, 2013 Price: $29.99 – Available Here
Overview
Idea Factory’s Hakuoki franchise has been around in some format since late 2008. What started as a single otome game (a visual novel focused on female players) has blossomed to a media powerhouse with manga, anime, and nearly a dozen video game entries. With the release of Hakuoki: Memories of the Shinsengumi on the Nintendo 3DS, Aksys and Idea Factory are looking to bring the franchise onto a new platform for western audiences. How does the newest release hold up? Should it be granted the title of shogun or redeem itself with seppuku? Let’s find out.
Story
Your name is Chizuru Yukimura. Your father, Dr. Kodo Yukimura, has left your hometown of Edo and is stationed in Kyoto for his medicinal practice. When he ceases to answer the letters of his daughter, which he’s been faithful to write daily, you decide to leave home and search for him. When you get to Kyoto, though, you’re unable to find him, and the man he said would help you, Dr. Matsumoto, is out of town on business.
Disguised in the garb of a man and wielding the short sword you’d been taught to use as a child, you take off late in the evening. You know Kyoto is a dangerous place, but your confidence gets the best of you. When you’re jumped by a few ronin thugs intent on getting your sword, you take off running and duck into an alleyway, hiding under some lumber.
A short while passes and, just as you begin to climb out from the lumber, you hear your assailants. Something feels out of place, though. They’re no longer after you. The ring of steel sings into the night as they try, desperately, to fight off a group of samurai. When the ronin who were after you are unable to appease or defeat the samurai, things turn from bad to worse. The samurai not only kill the ronin, but proceed to chop them up. Fiercely, they hack and slash away at the corpses, saying only that they want more blood.
As you watch, you accidentally make some noise, attracting the attention of the blood-crazed samurai. They turn and begin to come after you, their white hair and glowing eyes marking them distinctively in the night. They come ever nearer, and just when you think you have no escape, another group of samurai, clad in blue, appear and quickly dispatch the crazed attackers.
The blue clad warriors begin to talk amongst themselves. You can hear what they’re discussing. The person they mistook for a young boy had seen too much. Surely it would be bad for the Shinsengumi if word of what had transpired were to become common knowledge. After heated discussion back and forth, they decide to spare you for the time and take you back to their headquarters.
When you wake, you’re bound and in bed. Soon, an older man comes in and escorts you to the common room, where every commander of the Shinsengumi, a ronin police force, were waiting to decide your fate. Upon revealing that you were actually a lady and that you were looking for your father, Doctor Kodo Yukimura, the commanders reveal that they, too, are looking for your father, and that you would prove to be a valuable asset in time. Thus began Chizuru’s adventure with the Shinsengumi. What were they so eager to keep you from finding out, though? And why are they also searching for your father? Only time will tell.
Gameplay
To call Hakuoki: Memories of the Shinsengumi a “game” feels a bit like a misnomer. In truth, it feels more like a choose-your-own-adventure book.
Classified as an otome, or “maiden” game, Hakuoki aims to deliver the overarching narrative while setting the player up to develop romantic relationships within the game. In this case, most of the Shinsengumi commanders can become love interests for Chizuru.
What Memories of the Shinsengumi lacks in gameplay mechanics, it makes up for in spades with the story. The world of 1860’s Kyoto comes to life with a wonderfully delivered narrative. Not only is the story well put together, but the time is taken to properly flesh out each character, leaving no one to feel too flat or one-dimensional. They also do a fantastic job of giving you easy access to an encyclopedia so you can find out information to better flesh out their world quickly and easily.
For the most part, you’re simply going to be hitting the “A” button (or tapping the screen with your stylus)…a lot. A handful of times each chapter, you’ll be given some choice that will impact how the rest of the chapter (or potentially your time with your love interests) plays out. As these relationships grow, your decisions can greatly the outcome of the story, providing some interesting reasons to play through the game again with different choices.
For fans looking for a little more out of the game than just the story, a few minor features have been added to the 3DS version of the game. You can use the in-game photo booth to decorate photos with the commanders of the Shinsengumi. You can also go back and tackle story pieces you’ve completed to quickly see your decisions play out differently. Beyond that, there isn’t a lot to do outside of the story.
Visuals
The visuals in Memories of the Shinsengumi are straightforward and simple, but very well done. There are no moving parts to the game, so everything is set up with beautifully drawn anime images with a textual overlay. It serves much like some roleplaying games have done in the past, but without any character models. You can always go back and look at character or story-specific images in the gallery, too.
The game’s audio design is well done. The music does a great job setting the mood, but sound effects provide nothing more than a storytelling tool, giving the occasional sword clash effect or the like. The voice over work is where the real meat of the audio comes into play, though. Nearly every line of dialogue in the game has Japanese voice work to go with it. It does a wonderful job conveying the emotion of the lines. It would have been nice, though, to have had English voice work as an option.
Overall
Overall, Hakuoki: Memories of the Shinsengumi will appeal to a very limited audience. The title looks good and does a wonderful job setting up the world. Ultimately, though, the story and romance are the only things propping up this experience. Fans of visual novels or otome will find an excellent offering here, but with virtually no gameplay mechanics or interaction, it’s unlikely anyone else will be gunning for this title.
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All fans of One Piece will be way into this little nugget right here. One Piece is another of those Anime series’ that love a little cross promotion or some sweet merchandising. We’ve seen bottles, we’ve seen glasses and now we’ve been given a glimpse of some really snazzy looking One Piece watches. Tell time like a pirate would; by stealing the information from a Navy Sailor…or by looking at your One Piece watch. These digital watches show different images of One Piece characters every single hour, the images look like they’re taken straight from the Manga and because of it’s black and white display the images look really authentic. It uses a matrix EPD screen which are the types of screens you would see being used in a great deal of Electronic Dictionaries and eReaders.
Have one of the greatest Shonen Mangas on your wrist…at all times…”Yo!”
It’s not just pictures though, the watch does actually tell the time which is, pretty much, a staple for any good watch. It features a 32-city world clock, solar-powered charging technology, radio time synchronization, an automatic calender and even a power-save mode. The watch also comes with five different watch faces so that buyers can customise the watch when they want. The watch is being sold through Imperial Enterprises’ online shop here and will also be sold through other retailers but considering none of them are in the West, we’ll just stick to Premico (the link above). The unfortunate thing is that the product is limited to 3,000 units so get in quick! The watches all go for about US$608 which is quite a price to pay for a watch, I guess if you’re a big enough fan of One Piece you’ll find a way to grab one of these guys. Turns out the same company also has watches based on other titles like Dragon Ball Z, so if you miss out on these ones maybe you’ll be able to get yourself one of them instead.
On Saturday over at the “Anime Weekend Atlanta” holders of the Blue Exorcist license, Aniplex of America, announced details for the home video release of the Blue Exorcist Movie. Aniplex has set the release for the December the 17th of this year, just in time for Christmas. It will be released as a limited edition Blu-Ray boxset, it will also be subsequently released on DVD too.
The limited edition set will include a Blu-Ray disc with the actual movie on it alongside a DVD that includes bonus features like commentary tracks by the Japanese staff and cast, promotional trailers, staff interviews, a deluxe booklet which has to do with the movie and illustrated postcards in a “rigid box” done by the original manga artist himself, Kazue Kato. The Blu-Ray edition of the movie will be sold for US$89.98 and the DVD version will go for US$39.98. You can see the English Trailer here just in-case you’ve yet to see it and don’t know what the hype is about.
Tower Of Fortune 2 Developer: Game Stew Publisher: Game Stew Platforms:iPhone (Reviewed), iPad, iPod Touch Release Date: 20th September 2013 Price: $1.99 – Available Here
Overview
Tower Of Fortune 2 is the sequel that every iOS gamer has been wanting, even if they just don’t know it yet. This game somehow mixes action, RPG, Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Slot Machines into one game and, my God, don’t they do it well! This is Game Stew’s newest game and it fits right in with their already impressive catalogue of titles. Even before I start on the review itself I can safely say that you wont want to miss out on this gem!
Story
I never played the original game but I can assume they are very similar story-wise. Within Tower of Fortune 2 you aren’t told much about the story, all we know as the players is that you are a mighty warrior who’s daughter recently passed away, he has heard legends about a tower that, if scaled, will grant the adventurer one wish without any limitations. As you can probably already imagine, this is where the journey begins. That’s all the information we are given regarding the story which I don’t find to be an entirely bad thing because the development team have done this right. You adventure through some weird and wacky places, the first two being polar opposites of each other; one is a broken road where you fight goblins and the other is an abandoned factory where you fight what’s left of a scientists robotic experiments. It’s hard to see where the game will lead but I guess you’ll just have to play it and find out for yourself!
Gameplay
The game plays in a way that I’ve never seen before. Almost everything you do in the game revolves around the outcome of a slot machine. You tap the screen and the chambers will rotate, you stop them and whatever symbol comes up is what happens next in your story. This is also exactly how you fight enemies in the game. there are other things that go along with it like doubling down on the outcome or paying money to re-spin the chambers. Like I said earlier it is both action and RPG yet it also has a very “choose your own adventure” vibe to it which comes into it a fair bit. It’s such a fresh way of doing things and for someone like me who never played the first game I really enjoyed the, somewhat, strange yet fantastic way of gameplay. It’s essentially left all to chance which is exactly what an adventure is I guess.
The RPG elements appear in the form of levelling up, choosing abilities, upgrading gear, etc. It’s fantastic and the fact that you loose all your gear when you die makes it all the more heart-wrenching, you actually give a crap about what you do in-game. There is so much to see and so much to do within the game. It mixes simple gameplay with a really intense game style and they fit together so damn well. I found it hard to peel myself away from this one. The only bad thing I can say about this game is that it was a bit too hard to play when starting off, while dying makes you loose your gear and that forces you to play better, in the early stages it wasn’t really ideal and I could see it turning people off of the game. I don’t suggest it, I can just see it happening. there are also mini-games that help break it up which also help you in the actual story so everything is there for the taking really.
Audio and Visuals
The audio was nice, there wasn’t a great deal of music at all, in fact, I don’t think there was music apart from the little tracks that play after a win or after you loot something. It was all very, let’s say, “cinematic”. Every sound was part of the environment like birds chirping or the tone of a deep wind going through a tunnel. It was all very impressing and although there wasn’t a lot of variety, because it was simply environmental, it worked to compliment the visuals and that’s exactly what it needed. The thing that really ” hit home” for me was the visual style of the game, it looked like an old virtual pet, like a Digimon or Tamagotchi and that really made me enjoy this game even more. The way the characters bobbed and attacked were very reminiscent of those types of things and it was so nice to be able to have something that looks that way right in the palm of your hand. The environments were also extremely good looking and well put together, they were so vast and so detailed yet they were on half of the screen and made up of little black squares. I loved everything about the visuals of this game, they were done so well and so differently, it was nostalgic for me despite me never playing this before, it was simply the way it looked.
Overall
Tower of Fortune 2 is an all around fantastic titles that I guarantee will make a lot of people happy. I can imaging it does justice to it’s predecessor and it’s going to bring in a lot of new fans to not only the game but the company itself. As I mentioned earlier; the only thing setting it back, for me, si the fact that you loose all your gear when you die, it’s just a kick in the pants to not only be inexperienced but to also be punished for it. Trust me though, it gets easier the more you play, it forces you to learn but it would also send people running which is not good. In end I’d say that this game is absolutely fantastic and it would appeal to a varied audience because of it’s simple gameplay style and it’s story, so essentially it could be for anyone.
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Bamboo Blade Series Collection Studio: AIC A.S.T.A Publisher: Madman Format: DVD (Reviewed) Release Date:18th September 2013 Price: $59.95 – Available Here
Overview
Bamboo Blade was originally a Manga created by Masahiro Totsuke, it’s a sports/slice of life story that was picked up a few years ago by Australian Anime Distributor Madman. Here we are in 2013 and the Bamboo Blade Series Collection has finally been released. In the time since it’s run there have been a great deal of sports Anime that have come and gone, leaving both good and bad impressions. Let’s dive into Bamboo Blade and see whether or not it holds up in this generation of Anime. Read on to find out.
Story
I mentioned this just above but I’ll go over it again in a little more detail: The story revolves around a small Kendo Club that can’t seem to catch a break considering one of it’s members continuously quits then rejoins while another two are off fighting other schools and what not. One day the Kendo Club instructor, Toraji, makes a deal with an old friend of his who just so happens to be a Kendo Instructor as well. Toraji’s team would be going up against his “Sempai’s” team in an unofficial tournament, if Toraji wins he gets to eat free sushi for the rest of his life and this is enough for the broke teacher to put his all into turning his team into Kendo machines. This is the overall story despite there being little bits in-between and a whole other arc at the very end of the series. Tamaki is a small, Anime-loving, freshman who displays a great deal of skill in Kendo, Toraji recruits her and they begin their journey to victory and greatness. I would say that, out of all the characters, she is the main focus which really did my head in because she was also the softest spoken character. That’s not a very good combination in my opinion.
It’s about that time where I would usually say “I don’t want to spoil anything but…”, I won’t be saying that within this review because there is almost nothing to spoil, honestly. It is a very typical, very basic sports Anime and it doesn’t really inspire one to get into Kendo. The team recruits more girls, and two useless guys, as they continue to train throughout the year. They have their ups and their downs as one character is trying too hard, the other isn’t trying hard enough, so very typical. This is why I feel that I don’t entirely need to outline much because their isn’t really much to outline. My beef with this Anime is that, now bare with me on this, it is a story that revolves around a group of young women yet these young women are written incredibly shallow and all around badly. I can’t stand it when writters create these types of characters who fit into stereotypical tropes and that’s it. Tamaki is a shy girl who basically stays the same throughout the whole series with small bits of character development along the way, she was possibly the most well-written character out of the girls which isn’t saying much. The other girls are very typical; one is hyperactive, one is a drama queen, one is a nice girl with anger issues and so on and so forth. This wouldn’t be half bad if the characters’ stories were fleshed out a little more.
It’s a shame because Toraji and his old friend were extremely good characters; they were rivals yet friends, they interacted well and you could see a lot of what they learnt in the time between them as students and them as teachers. I just wish the rest of the characters could’ve been like this. I have to say that it did actually make me laugh at times and considering this is a comedy series I have to give them credit for that, the voice actors did a great job but I’ll talk more about that soon. The pacing of the series was also off, it could have been done in a shorter episode count if they took out a bunch of the useless, filler scenes and the unnecessary dialogue that just seemed to “float around”. Some scenes were great in it though! It was just unfortunate that those scenes where few and far apart and really had nothing to do with the main cast.
Visuals
The series is dated and you can tell that it is but I’m not going to focus on that too much because I feel like if an Anime is done right it doesn’t matter how old it looks. The costuming was great, it looked authentic, it wasn’t too over-the-top and it fit in nice and easy with the slice of life vibe that the series gave off. I’m going to say that the characters designs were also good, they all had their own little features that, somewhat, defined them and it wasn’t too quirky as to put you off from it. Look, the animation was fairly bare bones but it did kick into overdrive when it came to the actual Kendo tournaments which were done very well. I’m not a fan of Kendo nor have a seen any real-life Kendo but it did look fairly realistic if not slightly over-exaggerated, which isn’t a bad thing at all, it’s good to put a little flare into these types of things. There was nothing wrong with the animation, it didn’t need to be extremely detailed and fluid when, most of the time, they were just standing around talking.
Audio
There wasn’t much music within the series, there were maybe three or four distinct tracks that they used throughout while mixing in other, smaller ones to fill gaps. The voice acting within Bamboo Blade was actually very well done. While a fair few of the characters were quite annoying and had almost monotone voices there were other characters who seemed to make up for what these characters lacked. I was actually very impressed at the skill that these voice actors showed. I love watching an Anime that has an incredible voice cast and a few of these voice actors really help the series up for me. The sounds of Kendo were also fairly realistic, the snap of the wooden swords and the squeeking of bare feet on wooden flooring seemed extremely true to life. I give credit when credit is due, they did extremely well in this aspect.
Extras
There were no noteworthy extras in Bamboo Blade. It came with the clean opening and closing sequences and a few trailers for other Madman titles. Bare bones which happens to be the norm for Anime releases lately.
Overall
I’m good to put this very simply: It’s NOT a bad Anime. It’s an Anime for fans of Kendo and fans of “slice of life” Anime titles because that is exactly what it is and nothing else. It’s animation is fine, it’s voice acting is fine, even it’s story is fine, it’s just that none of it stands out or is groundbreaking in any way. That’s not to say it’s worth nothing though, it’s still a good Anime and, hey, I didn’t hate it! I actually looked forward to watching it of a night because it was simple and easy and I could follow it while also doing other things, it just didn’t blow me away and I doubt that it will blow a lot of audiences away unless they’re big fans of this type of thing.
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Throughout the last week Valve made three big announcements, dishing a little bit of dirt on three forthcoming products that everyone has been suspecting for varying degrees of forever.
First to hit the fan was the Steam OS, an operating system combining the existing Steam client with the Linux operating system. Then came the Steam Machines, trampling over everyone’s established opinion by ditching the word ‘Box’. Lastly came the Steam controller, a logical inclusion to the line-up that inspired Photoshop users the world over with it’s weird little owl eyes.
Now if asked to define myself as a gamer, I’m primarily a console person, but I like and enjoy Steam as much as any other person with a half decent PC. I consistently buy games in the sales and never play them, gazing longingly at some of the titles in my library before booting up yet another session of Civ IV. I’m not a Steam nut, but I’m not ignorant of it either.
So as a console person with a bit of a PC tint, what do I think of Valve’s triumvirate?
The main thing that sticks in my mind is the ballsiness of the controller. Neither Sony nor Microsoft has been particularly innovative with their controllers recently, and Nintendo is off in its own little world as always. Valve’s controller, completely lacking in sticks and instead complete with two touch pads with haptic feedback, is quite clearly staking claim to its own unique patch of turf. Yes it has a touch pad like the PS4 controller, yes it keeps the general shape, but do you see any of the other hardware companies completely ditching a staple of the last three generations of controller design?
Obviously I haven’t used it, so I can’t comment on its effectiveness as a controller, but as a statement of intent I think it’s great. What concerns me about the game industry and even other forms of media is the current trend for churning out more and more of the same old stuff in both software and hardware. It’s safe. It’s boring. That thing up there is not.
What else? Promoting your operating system as free, your hardware as hackable – it flies in the face of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo’s tightly controlled console environments. Valve has a history of inviting their consumers to mod their stuff, and with this hardware release they aren’t abandoning that principle – even the controller will eventually be moddable right down to its wiring. That’s madness to a console gamer, fantastic madness.
I don’t know if I’ll get myself a Steam Machine because heck, there’s not enough info yet. But does it look like a viable option to me? Yes. Will it cost me less than a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One? I would bet yes. Are there cheaper prices in the Steam store when compared to the ridiculous Australian games market? Yes.
Steam Machines are unlikely to kill off consoles, and certainly not right off the bat. For console gamers the next Sony and Microsoft machines are always going to have star power, and pending any enormous PR or hardware failures that is not going to go away. People need time to start identifying with a hardware brand, to become an Xbox person or a PlayStation person – or a Valve person. Of course there are already some devoted Valve people out there in the form of Steam’s millions of users, but these are PC people we’re talking about, and they don’t change for anybody.
Voice Over!: Seiyu Academy Volume 1 Author: Maki Minami Illustrator: Maki Minami Publisher:Viz Media Release Date: October 1, 2013 Price:$9.99 – Available Here
Overview Without good voice actors many industries would struggle to make a name for themselves. However despite being a major factor in any form of animation, the job of a voice actor is rarely explored. However, Maki Minami, a mangaka best known for her manga Special A, has created a new manga series called Voice Over!: Seiyu Academy which focuses on one girl trying to make it in the voice acting industry. Being a silent medium, does a manga about voice acting work well enough to get off the ground in Volume 1?
Story Ever since she was helped by the voice actress who handled the voice work for the heroine of Lovely Blazers, a magical girl anime she loved as a child, Hime Kino has always dreamed of becoming a voice actress. She doesn’t want to be just any voice actress either, she wants to be able to be the lead voice of the cute cast of Lovely Blazers eventually, but despite taking the first major step towards her dream, there is one thing holding her back.
After being accepted into the special voice acting program at the prestigious Holly Academy, Hime’s abilities are exposed and it is clear from the beginning that it is going to be an uphill battle for her. You see, whenever Hime tries to be cute, becomes nervous or even tries to act out a character her voice comes out sounding like a gruff old man or an animal making snorting noises. After her first attempt at acting, she earns herself the nickname of “Gorilla Princess” and is placed in a group of stragglers with three other misfits.
This group consists of a girl who cannot speak up, a guy who should be popular but speaks with an accent and has dirty habits, and a tough guy who tries to rough up anyone criticizing him or the rest of the stragglers. Despite being placed in this group however, Hime never lets the constant barriers put in her path get her down. It is quite invigorating to watch as she constantly is told that she simply cannot do something or is typecast into another role and she continues to do her best regardless of what others say.
Through the course of this first volume we are introduced to what will likely remain the main cast and a number of side-characters. There are a number of different personalities at play here but it seems that the main male character will be Senri Kudo, the son of Hime’s idol, will be the main male lead. His introduction in this first volume leads much to be desired as, other than his love of cats, he is little more than a typical tsundere that treats Hime coldly except on a few occasions, leaving him as one of the least interesting characters in this volume.
Thankfully, Hime’s constant determination in the face of adversity makes her a noteworthy main character and her personality helps serve as a strong introduction in volume 1 as we see her begin her path to being a voice actress, meet the numerous faces that will play roles from here on out, and establish a few plotlines that will likely be developed over the course of the next few volumes.
Artwork With Voice Over!: Seiyu Academy Volume 1 we have your standard shojo style of character with a number of handsome looking guys surrounding Hime as well as a few female characters added to the mix with plenty of sparkling and bubbly backgrounds here and there. There are a number of details that help set the manga apart however such as the amount of detail put into Hime’s expressions as a number of panels are full page spreads of her face either thanking someone or being determined.
Now one of the key aspects of this manga is trying to convey the way that these voice actors and actresses sound when they are speaking. Thankfully through the use of font choices and dialogue bubble appearance, Viz has managed to properly portray the way that these characters are meant to sound, with Hime’s rough voice and the various capabilities of other students clearly demonstrated thanks to these two nicely handled aspects. It is worth noting that there does seem to be a bit of damage to artwork in a few panels over the course of the volume, as a few text boxes appear to blot out and obstruct the artwork at times.
Extra Content At the beginning of each chapter there are a few notes from the author, Maki Minami. This is the followed by a small omake strip placed a few pages into each chapter where the author tells us a bit about her life and her work. Closing out the manga there is a bonus short called “Welcome to Mitchy’s Room” which is followed by some translation notes about some terms used at various places in the volume.
Overall Voice Over!: Seiyu Academy Volume 1 serves as a great start to the story as Hime’s infectious positivity and determination helps her push through her limited talent and voice. Not only that, Viz has managed to take a sound based story and successfully introduces it through text form through nice font and box usage. Unfortunately the supporting cast is lacking at the moment and the character that is presented as a male lead is as textbook as they come, somewhat hindering what is otherwise a great start to a manga tackling a rarely covered side of animation.
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My pick for this edition’s best deal is 70% off Mass Effect 3 at GamersGate. For those looking for the Digital Deluxe edition, it’s 75% off right now. If you haven’t played any of the Mass Effect games, then you must absolutely purchase the trilogy at 75% off! Learn more about Mass Effect 3 in our review.
The independent indie Midgar Studio has launched yet another new exciting project on Kickstarter. The new game is ‘Edge of Eternity’ and is expected to be on a whole new level from the studio’s previous games such as the recently released ‘The Secret of the Octopuses‘.
The action of ‘Edge of Eternity’ takes place in a unique and unusual universe which is highly influenced by both futuristic space travel and steam-punk/medieval inspirations. This interesting contrast in the game, is all set in the world of Heryon, where the protagonist is a human adventurer. The adventure RPG game also goes through elements of action, exploration and unexpected situations. The game is based on the classic ‘turn-by-turn’ combat system usually seen in RPGs, but with some innovations added. There is an unique concept for the magic system, it provides the player the ability to customise their devastating attacks by mixing spells.
The top highlight of the game that completes the experience has to be the Original Sound Track (OST), the music was entirely composed by the Midgar Studio team and recorded by the Paris orchestra. The studio lacks the financial resources for ‘Edge of Eternity’ and have set the bar at $200,000 in hope we could raise enough funds to to achieve the requirements for more features and innovations for their new game. ‘Edge of Eternity’ has also been posted up onSteam Greenlightfor voting. If you like what you’ve seen from the prototype trailer above, support the Kickstarter campaign here.
