Oh God, yes. If I add Imabikisou alongside Folklore and Echochrome, I now have THREE reasons to want to own a PS3! This is groundbreaking stuff, people! Seriously, though -- there is nothing I can think of aside from owning a chocobo that would make me as excited as seeing hardcore j-horror games hitting consoles. Here's a snippet from IGN about the title:
A traditional Japanese "Sound Novel" adventure, The storyline of Imabikisou revolves around a drug called "Vision" which seems to be responsible for a string of mysterious deaths. The game's main character and heroine, attempting to flee the curse of the drug, travel to a mansion that is believed to be the source of all the problems. There, they get themselves caught up in a mystery involving a strange flower, the Imabikisou of the title.
Thank you Sega, for actually hearing my subconsious pleadings in the night and distributing this. Its release date is October 25th from developer Chunsoft, so I'll be waiting patiently to find out more about this title. Also, courtesy of a translator on the TGS show floor, the literal translation of the kanji in the trailer is "Hate, Fire, Happened, In The Plant". Awesome! Engrish rules!
I love horror games and this looks like the biggest pile of crap I have ever seen. A guy getting hit by a truck, obsessive drawing, random fires...terrifying...but not really. I think I'll hold out for Silent Hill V.
Other generations brought us zombies, vampires, mummies, werewolves, etc. What do we have to show? Scary children. . .
With hair in their face, pale skin, freaky eyes, crawling around and singing. Can we not let this cliche die out already. Did not look scary. Did not look good.
Alright, I've seen this video 8 times now. I've read all the comments, and even read the article 3 times over just to make sure. And still, I can't tell what the big deal is. This looks like the corniest thing to come out of Japan since The Eye (which, consequently, got raving reviews for god knows why).
The corny CG fire, the flaming volkswagon, the guy standing in oncoming traffic. Even the voice acting screams B-movie quality. Why is everyone saying this is scary? I need to know what I'm missing here.
I love J-Horror. And yeah, these sorts of games have been around forever. I remember a Silent Hill based one came out for the GBA in Japan way back near the system's launch.
Sound novel is a trade-marked word by Chunsoft(the developer). Today it means the same thing as a visual novel. This isn't the next Silent Hill or Resident Evil people. It's just another Japanese visual novel that will never be released outside of Japan.
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Motion captured action and still frames. Wow...
Beeeeen there! I'm going to go scratch my ass. Call me when Resident Evil whatever comes out.
With hair in their face, pale skin, freaky eyes, crawling around and singing. Can we not let this cliche die out already. Did not look scary. Did not look good.
At least we got the crawlers from The Descent.
The corny CG fire, the flaming volkswagon, the guy standing in oncoming traffic. Even the voice acting screams B-movie quality. Why is everyone saying this is scary? I need to know what I'm missing here.
I'm a big horror fan so I'd love to see this, even if it's a visual novel and not really a game per say.
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