Orgarhythm for Vita

[Takao]

This week’s Famistu has the scoop for a new Japanese Vita game called Orgarhythm. The new title is from Acquire, the studio behind Vita games Sumioni and Shinobido 2: Revenge of Zen. Like Shinobido 2, they won’t actually be developing this title. Instead, it’ll be developed by Neilo, a studio formed by Tak Hirai a former SEGA programmer who once worked on Shenmue among other titles. The new title is a rhythm based action title. Players play as a god issuing commands to people of water, earth, and fire people. The game starts off with one basic bass track, but eventually expands to five. There will be over 100 skills to obtain, and it will feature local multiplayer compatibility for up to two players.



The game’s official Japanese site can be found here. In the game’s copyright notice North American video game localization firm, XSEED is listed. It’s important to note that Orgarhythm has only been announced for Japan as of this writing. But it seems Acquire may have spilled the beans. XSEED previously published Acquire’s Sumioni, and hinted at a future title from the company.

NearVita.com

(dat self-promotion; but it's okay I'm fairly certain I'm the first to spot it)

Screenshots are also embedded in the blog post, but here's two:




The game looks absolutely bizarre, and we might as well get this over with early: No way is this a retail release.

[Shizuka]

Why do they even bother? After Sumioni, I'd expect XSEED to distanciate itself from Acquire.

[perrandy]

Why do they even bother? After Sumioni, I'd expect XSEED to distanciate itself from Acquire.

xseed taking chances, i like that

[Shizuka]

xseed taking chances, i like that

You can't really call it "taking chances" when most of them are being DD-only.

[perrandy]

You can't really call it "taking chances" when most of them are being DD-only.

well, i call it taking chances when this game looks bizarre as takao said.if thats not taking chances then i dunno what it is.btw,like it or not get used to dd games because devs and publishers want more return for their investment plus control of their products

[fedaykin]

You can't really call it "taking chances" when most of them are being DD-only.

They're still presumably forking over a lot of money in advance for the right to localise and publish the game, not to mention paying the team's wages while they work on it. They're counting on it selling enough copies to outweigh those costs, so in that sense it is still taking a chance. Presumably analysis was done concerning how well games like Patapon have done, and the difference between the estimated revenue and the outgoings revealed they could go ahead. At the end of the day though, the game could sell badly and they could lose money even if its DD.

[Takao]

Sumioni and this were likely part of a package deal. Acquire seems to be a very flexible publisher so I wouldn't be surprised if these were affordable pickups for XSEED.

[Shizuka]

I'm sorry, but Acquire is starting to look desperate for me. Letting Ireland kickstart one of their main IPs, XSEED getting these past few games as easily as it is to be XSEEDs before it's even released, no wonder they were bought, or else they'd probably be out of business by now.

[suashi]

Oh hey! That looks kind of cool, I'll definitely keep an eye on it.

[Ryos]

I'm sorry, but Acquire is starting to look desperate for me. Letting Ireland kickstart one of their main IPs, XSEED getting these past few games as easily as it is to be XSEEDs before it's even released, no wonder they were bought, or else they'd probably be out of business by now.

Acquire has probably cornered the Wizardry market (which is pretty big in Japan) but beyond that, a lot of their library is something awful. Hopefully this game is better than it looks because it looks like some stupid mecha strategy game or something. If this is in fact the XSEED Acquire title, I can all but assure you it won't be on my purchase list.