Comments on: Watch - Valkyrie of the Battlefield December Trailer http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/ Video Game news for insiders. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:51:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: DAV3 http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-282208 DAV3 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:18:43 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-282208 Looks like something people may want to buy a PS3 for. Looks like something people may want to buy a PS3 for.

]]> By: EvilAkito http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-279365 EvilAkito Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:59:09 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-279365 Well, I definitely like the style. I don't plan on dropping the cash for a PS3, but the game does look pretty cool. Well, I definitely like the style. I don’t plan on dropping the cash for a PS3, but the game does look pretty cool.

]]> By: Atlus Shrugged http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-278854 Atlus Shrugged Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:00:49 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-278854 PSN Exclusive, BOOO!! HISSS!! (also, I'm with the above poster, does Noun know what pseudo, elitist, or diatribe means?) PSN Exclusive, BOOO!! HISSS!!

(also, I’m with the above poster, does Noun know what pseudo, elitist, or diatribe means?)

]]> By: Man Ray http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-278751 Man Ray Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:12:10 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-278751 Pseudo-elitist diatribe? Pseudo-elitist diatribe?

]]> By: Noun http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-278740 Noun Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:08:32 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-278740 Regardless of visual influence(s) and pseudo-elitist diatribe, this will probably be the game to nudge me toward the purchase of a PS3. Regardless of visual influence(s) and pseudo-elitist diatribe, this will probably be the game to nudge me toward the purchase of a PS3.

]]> By: Man Ray http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-278703 Man Ray Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:46:12 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-278703 @ Aoishi00 & John H. If you read the November 2007 issue of Play and head to the Japanese section of the magazine, you'll read an interview with the game's producer (Ryutaro Nonaka) and director (Shuntaro Tanako) who both say that Miyazaki's art style and visual aesthetic were a big influence in the game's design (something Kid Fenris just pointed out). I don't think it's wrong to say the game looks like a Miyazaki film because it really does. @ Aoishi00 & John H.

If you read the November 2007 issue of Play and head to the Japanese section of the magazine, you’ll read an interview with the game’s producer (Ryutaro Nonaka) and director (Shuntaro Tanako) who both say that Miyazaki’s art style and visual aesthetic were a big influence in the game’s design (something Kid Fenris just pointed out). I don’t think it’s wrong to say the game looks like a Miyazaki film because it really does.

]]> By: Kid Fenris http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-278685 Kid Fenris Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:38:10 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-278685 "And I’m unsure about the appropriateness of copying Miyazaki’s look and applying it to non-Miyazaki content." I don't think it's a direct rip of the Ghibli look. It instead draws on the same gently rendered pastoral element that shows up in a lot of Miyazaki films, though the trailer also seems perfectly in line with the violent warfare seen in Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Still, if Valkyrie of the Battlefield has a direct anime counterpart, I'd say it's closer to the not-quite-WWII-Europe atmosphere seen in series like Fullmetal Alchemist and Pumpkin Scissors. “And I’m unsure about the appropriateness of copying Miyazaki’s look and applying it to non-Miyazaki content.”

I don’t think it’s a direct rip of the Ghibli look. It instead draws on the same gently rendered pastoral element that shows up in a lot of Miyazaki films, though the trailer also seems perfectly in line with the violent warfare seen in Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

Still, if Valkyrie of the Battlefield has a direct anime counterpart, I’d say it’s closer to the not-quite-WWII-Europe atmosphere seen in series like Fullmetal Alchemist and Pumpkin Scissors.

]]> By: Aoshi00 http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-278643 Aoshi00 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:07:09 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-278643 I'm not sure if this looks like Miyazaki/Ghibli's style.. to me it's similar to Eternal Sonata's more than anything and I love it. I wonder if this or Operation Darkness is more fun, as I'm interested in both. I’m not sure if this looks like Miyazaki/Ghibli’s style.. to me it’s similar to Eternal Sonata’s more than anything and I love it. I wonder if this or Operation Darkness is more fun, as I’m interested in both.

]]> By: John H. http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-278626 John H. Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:39:51 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/2007/12/21/watch-valkyrie-of-the-battlefield-december-trailer/#comment-278626 While, if one's to copy something with one's art design, there are lots of worse things to copy than Miyazaki, this does highlight how video game creation is a fundamentally derivative process these days. And I'm unsure about the appropriateness of copying Miyazaki's look and applying it to non-Miyazaki content. While, if one’s to copy something with one’s art design, there are lots of worse things to copy than Miyazaki, this does highlight how video game creation is a fundamentally derivative process these days.

And I’m unsure about the appropriateness of copying Miyazaki’s look and applying it to non-Miyazaki content.

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