Atlus sure does love the PSP, announcing two games for Sony's handheld in just as many days. Hexyz Force is a new RPG from Sting, creator of Riviera: The Promised Land and Yggdra Union. This classically-styled JRPG features two different adventures, each about (what else?) the end of the world. Atlus promises each adventure will take about 25 hours, totaling 50 hours of dungeon crawling and grinding for RPG fans.
PSP owners are all too familiar with the lengthy load times for many of the system's RPGs. Thankfully, Atlus is promising "virtually no load times" for Hexyz Force. Like a console JRPG, the game will also feature twenty minutes of anime cutscenes. The UMD version is scheduled for release on May 25th, while a PSN version should follow shortly thereafter. Check out a video preview after the break.
Most of the time I'm watching a trailer it's because I want to see the game, if I don't see any gameplay whatsoever that is indeed a sign of bad things, but I usually wait for fans to post images and what-not before I make a somewhat concrete judgment.
I usually see it as an indicator of a really story driven game...but most of the time the gameplay just isn't good if a game's trailer contains no gameplay
It's not an indication of anything. It's just a choice by the devs and usually gameplay trailers follow cinematic trailers.
It's a choice the devs make. Do they first show a teaser or a trailer. Gameplay first or cinematic or both. But that choice indicates nothing about the games quality.
I believe the first Dragon Age trailer was pre-rendered CGi. Wasn't the first video of BlazBlue also just some Anime clips? First footage from SFVI was that sequence of Ken and Ryu fighting in the fields. etc. etc.
The Atlus representative who was responding to comments on the PS Blog stressed that Metal Slug XX would not be on the PS Store AT LAUNCH (sic), so they probably have not ruled it out completely and may release it there later.
As for Hexyz Force, it's been out in Japan since November. I don't know where to look for professional reviews, but the Amazon.co.jp entry for the game has 26 reviews and an overall rating of 4 stars.
The reply to comment #176 under the Metal Slug XX announcement on the PS Blog says this: "We can confirm that AT LAUNCH, Metal Slug XX will only be available on UMD." Hoping this URL goes through the Joystiq comment system: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/01/metalslug/comment-page-4/#comments
Anyone complaining about the game just because the trailer hasn't shown any action clearly has never touched a Sting game in their lives. FFS, go educate yourselves.
