Metal Gear Rising Blade Wolf DLC trailer released
Konami’s Japanese arm has released a trailer for the ‘Blade Wolf’ downloadable content for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
Being Metal Gear Solid, the trailer looks sufficiently mental. It offers a glimpse at both story and gameplay from the DLC. The trailer is in Japanese, but it gets its point across pretty soundly.
“Reactivated by Desperado Enforcement’s leader Sundowner and serving under Mistral, the DLC reveals LQ-84i’s story prior to his battle and eventual partnership with Raiden, and his transformation into Blade Wolf,” says the official story summary. “Players can battle countless enemies using an arsenal of weapons and abilities, culminating in an all-new boss battle.” See the trailer for yourself.
The Wonderful 101 probably isn’t very long
Director Hideki Kamiya has hinted that anticipated Wii U title The Wonderful 101 isn’t an incredibly long experience.
The notoriously straight-shooting developer took to Twitter, apparently unprompted, to mention the game’s length.
“If you hate to finish a game the next day [after] you buy it, you better not play TW101,” he said.
“I focus on how it is fun, not how long it lasts till the ending.”
This has caused a bit of a fuss, so producer Atushi Inaba also jumped on the microblogging platform to air a response, as collated by Siliconera, noting that Kamiya had caused “another bit of controversy”.
“What he is saying is his basic approach to how he creates an action game. The idea is rooted in that you shouldn’t pad your game with content users won’t enjoy in order to control play time to the end of the game. It isn’t something he wants to do, or thinks you should do,” Inaba explained.
“Kamiya is the kind of game director who will pack as much content into the game as he can until he is satisfied. If we were to give in to all of his desires, the game we’d ship would probably be some super-long action game that no one would beat. I’ve been teamed up with Kamiya as his producer for a long time now, and game length is something I’ve never once worried about.
“That means both the length of a single play-through and the replayability of the game. Never worried once. Never. Actually, my job really is to be the one who says ‘This is too %^&* long! Cut it!’”
Inaba said fans had jumped to conclusions in assuming that The Wonderful 101 isn’t a worthwhile purchase despite its length.
“Let me make my own conclusion: TW101 will be so much fun you are going to wear out your Wii U GamePad,” he said. “I’m sorry I can’t explain to you in exact terms why I think you will have so much fun with TW101. I promise there will be plenty of news about the game in the days and weeks to come. But I will say this – Everyone here is working incredibly hard to make sure you say two things about TW101. One: I’m happy I bought a Wii U Two: I’m happy I bought The Wonderful 101.”
The Wonderful 101 was due to appear on the Wii U sometime during its launch window, but is yet to be dated, possibly because Platinum Games had its hands full with Metal Gear Rising: Revengenace, and later Bayonetta 2. We’re now expecting the Pikmin-a-like sometime this year.
Thanks, Destructoid.
Metal Gear Rising: Blade Wolf DLC out May 9, gameplay screens inside
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance developer Platinum Games will release its second playable boss DLC on May 9, this time starring Raiden’s four-legged pal Blade Wolf.
The release date comes from AGB, but no formats or official confirmation were included, so treat the date as rumour for now. But what we can show you concretely are these gameplay screens. Enjoy.
Platinum Games head laments studio’s weak sales, wants renewed focus going forward
Platinum Games president Tatsuya Minami has rated his team’s performance over the past five years in a new interview, and has expressed disappointment in the studio’s sales. He has also laid bare aims to expand the company’s focus moving forward.
Speaking with Polygon, Minami rated his team’s game output an A, and said that as far as he was concerned the team had, “held up its end of the bargain and done a really good job of putting out really high-quality games”.
Those games in question are of course Madworld, Bayonetta, Infinite Space, Vanquish, Metal Gear Rising, Anarchy Reigns. The team is currently working on Bayonetta 2 and The Wonderful 101 for Wii U.
Great games indeed, but Minami isn’t so keen on how well Platinum’s titles have performed at retail over the years, and said, “Whether we’ve sold as well as we would have liked, or whether the company has the amount of money that everybody would love to have in the company, I think I’d probably rate it as a C or even a D.”
Speaking of Bayonetta sales in particular he added, “We were hoping it was going to do a little bit better than that, though you can’t put it all on the game itself. I think there were a lot of issues with when it came out, the kind of marketing behind it.”
The next step is to improve Platinum’s focus with a more globally-appealing approach. Said Minami, “Now we’re trying to expand and focus more outward and think about gamers worldwide. But when you think about what global success really means, that means we need to be selling more titles. Our games need to sell more copies.”
How would you rate Platinum’s performance so far? Would you like to see a more globally-focused approach from the studio, or should it stick to what it does best?
Let us know below.
Thanks CVG.
Metal Gear Rising: JetStream Sam DLC releases today
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance developer Platinum Games will release its JetStream Sam DLC today on PS3 and Xbox 360. The content lets you play as the game’s boss in a new mini-campaign and should be rolling out in your territory from today.
The confirmation comes from the official Konami Twitter feed:
Destructoid reports that the content is rumoured to cost $6.99 and will likely retread past locations from the core game, based on these screenshots.
Here’s a gameplay video of Sam in action:
Thanks DLC Central.
Bayonetta 2 Wii U exclusivity was only way it could happen, says Kamiya
Bayonetta 2 is a Wii U exclusive and that has a lot of people pissed off. So whenever I see people complaining I can’t stop myself from telling them that Sony and Microsoft didn’t want it on their formats. Nintendo saved Bayonetta 2. Platinum head Hideki Kamiya has once again stressed that fact to make sure you understand.
Kamiya tweeted the above earlier today, when asked whose idea it was to make the game Wii U exclusive. As you can see, it wasn’t anyone’s idea, it was the team’s only option.
So you all understand now yes? Platinum aren’t dicks and Nintendo aren’t being selfish and keeping them game for themselves.
We can hope that once Sony and Microsoft see the final product they’ll reconsider their decision and welcome Bayonetta 2 with open arms.
Thanks Nintendo Life.
Hands On: Project P-100
