XSEED's Next Mystery Title!

[yuki-chan]

My guess:

Tsuku Monogatari

[rpgfan]

In Corpse Party's defense (simply as a game, not as confirmation that that's the game we're working on or anything): The visuals actually add quite a bit to its atmosphere, and are surprisingly well-designed, with some really fantastic sprite animation. It's still retro-style, but it's a style that has a lot of innate charm (especially if you grew up with 8- and 16-bit games), and it actually helps make the game feel even creepier by showing just enough to convey EXACTLY what's going on... but forcing you to use your imagination to fill in the finer details of it. And as any good horror fan knows, the things we imagine are far scarier than anything that can be displayed on a screen.

It really is a great game. All three of the titles you guys have guessed thus far are great games.

-Tom

The sequel looks better, first-person dungeon crawling like.
If it is Corpse Party, I would love to have the sequel.

[Wyrdwad]

Thanks for reminding me: I need to PLAY the sequel to that! Gotta preorder it a.s.a.p., as finding a copy of the Japanese LE for the first game was a real pain in the tuckus even one short month after its release. 5pb seems to print their LEs in ludicrously small quantities, and they gain in value VERY, VERY quickly.

From what the trailers suggest, the sequel is an *actual* sequel, featuring the same cast of characters one year later... so playing the first game may turn out to be a prerequisite for understanding the story of Corpse Party 2.

Also, SpaceDrake: The PSP version is actually a far superior game, in this particular case. Don't know if you've actually played both versions, but a lot was added to the PSP version that really makes it the better choice in almost every way. If you've yet to play Corpse Party, I highly recommend betraying your PC roots, and giving it a go on the PSP -- as painful as that may be for you.

And Yuki-chan: Another great guess! That game's intrigued me ever since the first article I read about it. Man, I love the PSP!! (:

-Tom

[Dust]

My guess goes to Grand Knights History. I'm still waiting for Zwei!! ;_;, but I'm honestly surprised you guys have time to work on another PSP title with Sora no Kiseki SC sitting on your plates

[Adrian-kun]

I want it to be an adventure game.

[Wyrdwad]

My guess goes to Grand Knights History. I'm still waiting for Zwei!! ;_;, but I'm honestly surprised you guys have time to work on another PSP title with Sora no Kiseki SC sitting on your plates

Well, you have to keep in mind, if we devoted all of our resources to Sora SC, we'd be out of business looooong before it ever got finished. (: We can never really focus on just one game at a time, or we're done for!

And Adrian-kun: That wish is very likely to come true, since the vast majority of horror titles on the PSP *are* adventure games. Corpse Party, Dangan-Ronpa and Tsuku Monogatari alike all fall clearly within the adventure genre -- I think the only title anyone's guessed so far which doesn't is Ore no Shikabane wo Koete Yuke (another awesome game), which is a straight-up turn-based RPG.

-Tom

[Sagadego]

will this get a umd release? the surprise game?

[PurpleDoom]

will this get a umd release? the surprise game?

I'm not an XSEED employee, so don't take my word for it, but I'd say it's likely. UMD releases aren't just suddenly going to disappear because of the Vita. There's the chance something else may pop up, but I sincerely doubt it would be DD-only just because of the Vita.

As for the game itself, my bet's on Corpse Party, as well.

[Wyrdwad]

Sadly, a UMD release is actually *not* very likely for any niche PSP titles publishers release from here on out, as producing UMDs, cases and instruction manuals costs quite a bit of money, as does paying stores to stock the game on their shelves. Download-only is much cheaper from a publishing standpoint, and with the PSP "on its way out," so to speak (and especially if the game is niche enough), the likelihood of making back one's initial investment with a UMD release decreases quite a bit.

I'm not saying with certainty that this particular title will be download-only -- after all, for all you know, it may be a really big-name release that's destined to sell MILLIONS... but I wouldn't go into any upcoming PSP title from now on expecting a UMD release, if I were you, as I think that's going to become less and less common for the remainder of the system's lifespan.

-Tom

[Sagadego]

i guess i'll bail out then