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As is probably mentioned many times by now, the few seconds of our mute protagonist leaping from backyard to backyard with the power of anti-gravity in the residential district of New Los Angeles looked weirdly incongruent from the rest of the game - like it doesn't belong there. By no means is this a bad thing. It just amused me a little, because if you showed me these few seconds in isolation, out of context, perhaps with the Neo LA dome walls covered up a bit in the background, I'd be hard pressed to correctly guess that this is the same game as the one that has you fighting giant dinosaur creatures with Gundams.
Character models are baaaaad. I've seen the Xenosaga style. This reminds me a more of the Xenosaga style than the Xenoblade style and I don't really find it very appealing. I can live with it though. Yeah, cutscenes will still be there, but most of the time I'll hopefully be looking at the back of their heads, or the back of a mech. Or up a giant dinosaur alien's rear end.
Character models are baaaaad. I've seen the Xenosaga style. This reminds me a more of the Xenosaga style than the Xenoblade style and I don't really find it very appealing. I can live with it though. Yeah, cutscenes will still be there, but most of the time I'll hopefully be looking at the back of their heads, or the back of a mech. Or up a giant dinosaur alien's rear end.
Y'know I just thought of this, but I hope you can control all party members in this game. I know you could in Xenoblade, but the whole player-created avatar thing leads me to believe they may not go down that route this time. Does anyone know if they've said anything about this?
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Tweets just keep coming.
Takahashi is just giving more details on Yanase and Mugitani's contributions on the project. He mentions that Yanase is famous for his work on Gundam 00, and that he recalls that he joined the project around the time Kotobukiya's Frame Arms model kits were announced. His request for Yanase was to design the Dolls in the game to mechs which can transform into multiple different vehicle types from single convertible base frames.
He then talks about Mugitani. Apparently he'll be handling the entire design line for "a certain faction" in the game. He's being sort of vague, but he says that he requested him to join the project because in all of Japan he feels that this is something only Mugitani can design. He remembers first meeting him for this project at a coffee shop in Tachikawa, and he's very pleased that each time he gets designs back from him, they are really detailed. Apparently we can also look forward to his designs of "sexy battle suits" for some troops.
He then talks about Mugitani. Apparently he'll be handling the entire design line for "a certain faction" in the game. He's being sort of vague, but he says that he requested him to join the project because in all of Japan he feels that this is something only Mugitani can design. He remembers first meeting him for this project at a coffee shop in Tachikawa, and he's very pleased that each time he gets designs back from him, they are really detailed. Apparently we can also look forward to his designs of "sexy battle suits" for some troops.
Not much in this wave of tweets.
Takahashi seems to realize that continuously introducing one designer after another in the tweets can be rather boring, but he asks that fans bear with him because he wants to introduce as many of these artists as possible. (duckroll note: It seems that the idea of posting some artwork from the game to make it less boring has not dawned upon him, unless he's not allowed? )
Today he introduces another two artists involved in the project - Fumihiro Katagai and RARE Engine.
He also shares that as development on the game progresses, they're seeing a lot of stuff where they go "wow, this is even more interesting than that." He feels that when a project has reached a point where the general direction has already been set, it can be pretty challenging for those joining after. He is very grateful to those who happily accepted the offer to take part.
Takahashi doesn't talk about what the two designers are working on. I can give some background on them though. Katagai is a mecha/conceptual designer who works on anime. He did some guest mecha designs for an episode of Space Dandy, and he worked on various stuff in the past like Last Exile, Votoms, Eureka Seven AO, the Short Peace segment Farewell to Arms, etc. I'm not familiar with RARE ENGINE's work, but he's an illustrator who seems to work mostly on magazine illustrations and artwork for digital card games like Code of Joker and Lord of Vermilion.
)Today he introduces another two artists involved in the project - Fumihiro Katagai and RARE Engine.
He also shares that as development on the game progresses, they're seeing a lot of stuff where they go "wow, this is even more interesting than that." He feels that when a project has reached a point where the general direction has already been set, it can be pretty challenging for those joining after. He is very grateful to those who happily accepted the offer to take part.
Takahashi doesn't talk about what the two designers are working on. I can give some background on them though. Katagai is a mecha/conceptual designer who works on anime. He did some guest mecha designs for an episode of Space Dandy, and he worked on various stuff in the past like Last Exile, Votoms, Eureka Seven AO, the Short Peace segment Farewell to Arms, etc. I'm not familiar with RARE ENGINE's work, but he's an illustrator who seems to work mostly on magazine illustrations and artwork for digital card games like Code of Joker and Lord of Vermilion.
Your best bet of seeing a new footage is in a Nintendo Direct.
More tweets (from a couple of days ago).
More tweets (from a couple of days ago).
Not much from latest tweets.
Website updated with full track from E3 2013 trailer. It's a Christmas gift!
Download link: http://xenobladex.jp/media/xeno_sound2.mp3
Website updated with full track from E3 2013 trailer. It's a Christmas gift!
Download link: http://xenobladex.jp/media/xeno_sound2.mp3
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