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Blade Kitten coming to PSN this spring

by Andrew Yoon on Feb 18th 2010 12:40PM

"Part cat, part girl - and fully lethal."

That's how Krome Studios' press release describes the heroine of the upcoming Blade Kitten, a two-part, downloadable arcade action game coming to the PS3 this Spring. The anime-inspired game is based off a comic of the same name, created by Krome Studios co-founder Steve Stamatiadis.

A gameplay trailer will debut later tonight exclusively on Spike TV's GameTrailers TV. Expect to see some platforming, sword fighting and a disturbing focus on her -- we kid you not -- "smart mouth" and "hot body." Meow. Before then, you can watch a teaser trailer after the break.

Blade Kitten (PS3)

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Tags: blade-kitten, gametrailers-tv, krome-studios, playstation-store, psn, q2-2010

Reader Comments (63)

Gameplay, plz.

Ahh, good ol' PSN.

Always keeping me supplied with quality, interesting titles.

Meow this looks interesting.

Do I look like a cat to you, boy? Am I jumpin' around all nimbly bimbly from tree to tree? Am I drinking milk from a saucer? Do you see me eating mice? You stop laughing right meow!

Meow, I'm gonna have to give you a ticket on this one. No buts meow. It's the law. Not so funny meow, is it?

Terrible movie but I have to admit it provides some great quotable material.

Did you just say "meow"?

A boner from this video makes me:

A.) a fan of beastiality
B.) a fan of furries
C.) just damn weird.

or D) All of the above?

Yes.

And the answer is:

D.) A fairly standard-issue 12 year old boy...

Well, there is a difference between furries and catgirls, namely, catgirls don't have fur. I should stop talking now.

No, you should spread more of those "The more you know" type messages.

What if everything gives me a boner?

http://www.searchviews.com/wp-content/themes/clean-copy-full-3-column-1/images/the_more_you_know2.jpg

Has anyone considered E) Part Japanese ?

D) A resident of Second Life.

The More You Know
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I was hoping this would be more of an actual widdle kitty, rather than some humanoid cat warrior thingamadoodle.

Oh, now i get what your avatar is. Homer from his brief stint as a bounty hunter, yes?

Great, Furry porn in video game formfactor

Rule 34'd in 3...2...1...

MY EYES!

MY SWOLLEN HEAD!

Where is it?!

MY SPLEEN!

OH! MY CAR

i want rule 34 now and im not wasting 5-6 hours searching for it!

The graphical style looks cool, but the animation looks horrible, reminds me of an FMV from a Saturn or early PS1 game. Also, it would help if some gameplay was shown.

Yeah, the animations are awful. It looks like they're trying to create really fluid action scene, but lack the ability to do so.

I'm jumping on the "poor animation" bandwagon. Really, the screenshots seemed okay, but the trailer stamped on my incipient interest in this; I actually had the thought, "They're moving like CGI animation I saw 15 years ago!" We'll see if my interest comes back after reviews.

The screen shots in the gallery look kinda cool. Could be a generic side scrolling hack and slash but seems like it'd at least be one with personality.

You know, I like catgirls as much as the next weeaboo, but this still doesn't look good. Maybe it's the creepy Next-Life bad CGI? Or that the whole thing consists of what would appear to be well-rendered but static backgrounds? I dunno, but it's a bit too close to the uncanny valley.

Dude, It's a anime catgirl. That's not an uncanny valley, that's an Uncanny grand canyon. But it's the stiff animation that's more of a question here, Hopefully the ingame animation is smoother. The style kind reminds me of that cartoon Oban Star Racers actually. The CG even looks like the pilot animation trailer they did before the show came out.

Uncanny valley?

I don't think you're using that phrase right.

The uncanny valley is when something is so realistic it's almost impossible to differentiate from real life - but tiny little mistakes, almost impossible to detect on their own, create a vague sense of 'something isn't right here'.

The uncanny valley does not apply to cartoons, involving cat-girls or otherwise. ;]

To be specific the goal of photo realistic CG has been to cross the "valley" and reach a point where it's indistinguishable from reality. When you dont quite do it you fall into the proverbial valley.

How, well, generic looking.

Wait, I thought MS owned Krome Studios for some reason. Guess not...

And I thought X-blades was awesome.

I had not yet had the opportunity to rent it, however, I was intrigued by the protagonists' lack of pants.

*Adjusts monocle*

X-blades was far more generic than this. Not that this isnt generic but atleast it looks like someone with an artstyle approaching an understanding of anime designed this.

Sweet monocle, bro!

I lost interest in X-Blades during the part where you're on that shore and have to kill like a billion of those stupid crab enemy things.

Too bad. I wanted to like it, too.

I agree that the character design of this is superior to that of X-Blades, at least when it comes to the main character, which is all I have seen of either game, more or less. I was very underwhelmed by X-Blades' main character design.

*sigh*

The internet needs a 'sarcasm mark' on the double...

goty

more like gotsy

The Goat Man's seal of approval.

Interesting:
"Based on the web comic created by Steve Stamatiadis (creator of TY the Tasmanian Tiger), Blade Kitten is an anime adventure game of girls, swords and big robots.

Sometime in the future, somewhere that’s not Earth. Kit Ballard is a bounty Hunter and one of the best in the business. Together with her alien sidekick Skiffy and her sword, the Darque Blade, she hunts down rogue mechs and soft targets. Kit becomes the nexus of a tumultuous series of events on the strange planetoid known as DUEL CORE."

This reminds me of X-Blades.

That crappy "Hey we're making something anime-like, but we're not from Japan, aren't we creatively awesome?! Also, we assume "anime" means "TEH CAT GIRLS AND LACK OF CLOTHES!!" style.

Hey now, give X-Blades credit where it's due. The people who made it are all Russian. It's a pretty good game when you consider it was made by a bunch of morbidly depressed guys constantly drunk on Vodka.

That is.... very true!

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