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The game that started the genre of dungeon RPGs or better called “roguelike” games is being remade for the Playstation 2. Rogue Hearts Galaxy is based on the original game and it has 3D monsters instead of letters to represent monsters. I say based because none of the original creators are in on the project, instead they brought in someone who introduced the game in Japan to supervise the project. Compile Heart who made Astonishia Story for the PSP is spearheading the project and you can see some more screenshots past the break.
4 Responses to “Rogue being remade for the Playstation 2… sort of”
January 4th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
IF this were really a graphical port of Rogue they would have to be careful, because not all versions of Rogue are public domain, and some are even commercial.
But this is not a graphical port of Rogue, it seems from examining the screenshots, but rather a roguelike, such as Fushigi no Dungeon, a kind of game that is rapidly becoming almost common–in Japan. Rogue has a very distinctive level generation pattern that never produces more than nine rooms on a floor (although it must be said that the actual details of this game’s algorithm do seem similar to the original game’s, generalized for larger levels), and also has no item class to correspond with the bottle seen in the last screenshot.
What is the source for this story? Is this game related to Rogue Galaxy? I can’t find any info on it on Compile Heart’ website, but then again, I can’t read Japanese.
January 4th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
The game is not related to Rogue Galaxy and I don’t think Compile Heart’s site has any info on it. Maybe Compile Heart is taking advantage of the Rogue name to push more copies of this anyway here’s the source: http://www.famitsu.com/game/coming/2006/12/27/104,1167202359,65079,0,0.html
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January 4th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Yay! I’m excited about this. I hope the on-screen map can be toggled off.