Comments on: Acquire swords and sorcery in a PSP RPG

By: SomeDude

SomeDude — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:13:08 +0000

Jeremy: Yeah, but I wasn’t referring to the game style, I was referring to the art. I realize that this game style has been around since Tunnels of Doom on the TI-99/4A, but those stills look very inspired by EO.

By: JeremyR

JeremyR — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:55:27 +0000

To be fair, EO was hardly original. Besides emulating the old school computer RPGs like Wizardry and Bard’s Tale, there were a couple games like it on the PSP – the two King’s Field games and Ore No Dungeon.

(Sans the map drawing bit, which really was original (at least on a handheld, you used to have to do that with graph paper in real life)

By: SomeDude

SomeDude — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:26:43 +0000

I like it. Maybe since this is on the PSP, it’ll have enough horsepower to handle the first person dungeon crawling AND have real enemy sprite animation.

It does look very, very EO-ish, though.

By: Louise

Louise — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:14:24 +0000

I thought the same thing re: Etrian Odyssey. I hope this comes over sans the draw-your-own-map, which was tedious. It should just auto-draw like Shiren the Wanderer.

By: jeffx

jeffx — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:11:48 +0000

This sounds perfect for Atlus. I would pay for that game! Loved Etrian Odyssey.

By: Nick Doerr

Nick Doerr — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:28:10 +0000

Seems a smidge like Etrian Odyssey, too, sans the whole “draw your map” deal. Which is fine by me, since my cartography skills more or less sucks.