Here is some gameplay footage of Marvelous Entertainment’s bizarre title for the PSP. The video is 13 seconds long and spans about 6 seconds of game “time.” If that doesn’t make sense, you may recall that the entire game takes place in just 30 seconds. There are 4 different stories the player can choose, each with their own main character, goal and play style.
Here are the different stories I know about:
Up until today I had no idea how it was possible to beat a game in just 30 seconds. I now know that there is a system which allows the player to turn back time. This is done by appeasing the Goddess of Time. How you ask?
“Take out your money and I will turn back time “Give and take” is the
first step to human relationships.”
That’s right: cold hard cash. The ultimate inspiration for anything, even for the gods I suppose. In the short video up top, the Goddess of Time is speaking at the bottom of the screen throughout the battle. She says things like “Tick tock, tick tock” and “Hurry!” What a jerk.
Hero 30 looks like it’s 4 different games in one, each made up of a series of mini-stages. I really like that each character’s play style is different. This may actually keep me interested long enough to clear each character’s story. I get the feeling this will be a real gem for PSP owners.
*UPDATE* Here is a bizarre mini-game on Hero 30’s main site where you see how good you are at counting 30 seconds. Good practice I suppose.
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White Knight Chronicles
by Level Five
Hours Played: 35-40
Recent Accomplishment:
Georama Level: 7
Clan Level: 7
Trying to make some of the higher level job parts, they take a lot of rare elements which has be questing my ass off. Should be able to reincarnate my character soon!
Man, I get all flustered just from those auto-scrolling levels in Mario games. This game would give me a panic-induced heart attack.
If you are curious you may want to check out the proof of concept which can be downloaded at http://uue.holy.jp/
So this is in some way similar to Majora’s Mask? That’s cool. I love the characters designs, especially Princess 30’s. Her dress is so impractical for anything besides sitting in a throne that I can’t imagine her lugging around that huge crossbow. For some reason I don’t see this being released in America. Maybe Retro Game Challenge will give this title a push to be released here.
I also love the princess’s design. I like the combination of normal/weak looking individuals paired with weapons that are both large and bizarre.
Atlus has brought some Marvelous games over so I could see them doing so. The weirdness factor may slightly deter them though. I guess we’ll have to wait and see. I am definitely rooting for it though!
“I like the combination of normal/weak looking individuals paired with weapons that are both large and bizarre.”
Same here. When I read that I was immediately reminded of Mercedes from Odin Sphere. Awesome.
All praise Atlus. The savors of the video game industry.
Oh god, that mini-game and the Majora’s Mask comment brought back the supressed memory of trying to complete the Bomber’s Notebook. The last thing I had left to do was the Postman’s quests where you had to stop a timer at 10′00″. Man I thought I would never had to do anything like that again….
Sorry to make such painful memories resurface. Life, and games, can be so cruel.
