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Akihiro Hino, founder and president of Japanese game developer Level-5, is currently juggling multiple game and anime projects (including the latest incarnation of Mobile Suit Gundam...and yet he's still found the time to experiment a bit. In the pages of this week's Famitsu magazine, Level-5 took the wraps off GUILD01, a Nintendo 3DS title that, in a way, sounds like a Japanese console-biz take on the Humble Indie Bundle.
A collection of four distinct games set to be sold in a single package, GUILD01 features the following titles:
- Kaihou Shoujo, a 3D shooter that features Grasshopper Manufacture head Goichi Suda handling design duties and animation studio Bones throwing in some graphical work. Like with any Grasshopper title, the premise is nuts: 100 years in the future, the president of New Japan is a high-school girl who pilots a robot called "The Releaser" to fight off invasion from bigger nations, as well as fend off the threat posed by personified natural energy sources.
- Rental Bukiya de Omasse, an offbeat RPG designed by Yoshiyuki Hirai, half of popular Japanese comedy duo America Zarigani. The hero's a guy who runs a classically JRPG-style weapon shop, creating weapons and lending them out to hapless adventurers.
- Air Porter, a realtime sim from Yoot Saito (Seaman, The Tower, Odama). So far it sounds basically like The Tower set in an airport -- you're the CEO of a spanking new airport, and you have start from the ground up, sorting baggage and trying your best to expand your hub.
- Crimson Shroud, from former Square strategy-RPG maestro Yasumi Matsuno. Not much was shown on this title, although the preview coverage calls it a short-story "dark fantasy" RPG.
GUILD01 is due out sometime next year in Japan.
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Level-5 Releasing 3DS Indie-Game Bundle of Sorts
après neuf mois d'existences, et dans une moment ou peut de gens croyait en l'avenir de la 3DS (a cause de la psp vita, mais surtout des tablette tactile), Level-5 présente 4 jeux qui sera vendu en une boite. Mise-a-part le faite que j'ai des gros doutes quand a les durées de vie de ces jeux (d'un autre cote, je ne connais pas la capacité de stockage des cartouche), les jeux réuni Yasumi Matsuno, Suda 51, Yoshiyuki Hirai et Yoot Saito. Entre ce 4 jeux, Time traveler (qui n'est pas exclusif a la 3ds), Beyond the Labyrinth, le catalogue continue a s'enrichir. Cependant, il faut etre realiste: jusqu'a quand? Est-ce que Level-5 n'aurait pas fait plus de benefice en editant les jeux sur apple store ou Android? Je suis contre le dematerialiser, mais sortir quatre jeux sur une cartouche (et je suppose, car rien a ete communiquer) aussi long qu'un jeu sur tablette, n'est pas un peu du vole organiser de la part de l'editeur?
Kaihou Shoujo - Suda 51
Crimson Shroud - Yasumi Matsuno et Hideo Minaba
Rental Bukiya de Omasse - Yoshiyuki Hirai
Air Porter - Yoot Saito
a noter que le Level-5 Vision 2011 se tiendra dans exactement 7 jours, le 19/10/2011