Topic: Pearl Harbor Red Sun Rising

[DAaaMan64]

Ya the screen shots are real good looking. You guys are trying pretty hard on this one?

[Kairon]

I just want to say that, after finishing Sky Crawlers in an all nighter, I realized how badly I've been missing these types of games. Pearl harbor is Day one for me.

[legendo]

Cheers Kairon, glad to see you're liking what you've seen so far!

DAaaMan64, surely trying would imply we're not reaching our targets, do you not like what you've seen so far?

[DAaaMan64]

It looks awesome One of the best looking WiiWare games I've seen.  I'm definitely gonna be looking forward to it when it comes out.

[legendo]

Thank you DAaMan, that's very nice of you to say!

I'm seriously chomping at the bit to get this game out but but Bjorn's being very rigorous with the testing and tweaking:)

[Stratos]

Don't worry, we're Nintendo fans here so we've been bred and raised on numerous delays for anticipated projects. But the tradeoff is we tend to expect good polish in return for said delays.

[legendo]

It's been a while chaps!  We're so close now, I can smell the coldite:)  We're now in the final stages of the game's development.  I've snaffled a trio of new screens for you to take a look at:)

[legendo]

Hi guys!

Been a while, it's been absolutely maniacal!  Check out the official teaser of Pearl Harbor: 1941 - Red Sun Rising!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT7TLHzH5D8
 

Without for the want of being biased, it looks awesome!

[Stratos]

I really like the cel-shaded parts of the game. The whole thing looks quite fun.

I would love to see a version including the RAF fighting to defend Britain from the Germans.

Music is awesome too. Is that in game music?

[legendo]

Hey Stratos.

The cel shading isn't part of the game, that's just for the trailer.  The realtime footage is in there though.  The Wii sadly couldn't handle cel shading of that quality.

[BlackNMild2k1]

That actually looked pretty good.

And I would love to see a future version using the cell shading.

[legendo]

@BlackNMild

As I said, the Wii simply couldn't handle the level of detail for celshading to make it worthwhile.  To get a graphical level akin to the trailer, it'd have to be on the 360 or PS3:(

[BlackNMild2k1]

I meant future... like Wii2 or something.

The current game looks great. the still pics didn't really do it justice.

[ShyGuy]

Yeah that cell shading looked very nice.

[legendo]

I agree, I love the styling.  Definately something to use in the future!

[Stratos]

Have you ever played Wind Waker? That has quality cel shading. Red Steel 2 had good cel shading as well.

[Mop it up]

Neither of those games looked as good as that trailer, though. Plus this is a WiiWare game, a 40 MB limit doesn't allow for high detail in graphics.

[legendo]

The compression methods the Wii uses would mean that the textures would have to be relatively low resolution if we used celshading or the impact on fps/loadtimes etc would be quite substantial.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Hey legendo, have you guys started development on an portable (read: 3DS) games?

and completely unrelated.....
what do you think about the 3DS?
(from whats official & what rumored)

care to enlighten us on anything regarding it(the 3DS)?
thoughts, concerns, wants, needs, rumors that you've heard?

[legendo]

This is not Legendo's POV, it's my personal (I'm Dan) pov.
 
Let's face it, Nintendo knows how to make handheld hardware.  I think it'll be a huge success, it may take a little longer to take off than say the DS but people will snap it up once they've seen it in action.  From my own personal understanding, it may use lenticular lenses (like the 3D posters you can get) to give the 3D effect which sound rather odd but I'm sure that Nintendo know what they're doing and I can't wait to see some first party titles running on the machine.  My only real concern really is the negative impact that 3D has on some peoples' eyes.  Mine for example, when I try to watch anything 3D whether it's the classic red and green lenses or active shutter or even just the polarised, it literally feels like my eyeballs are being pulled out.  The way I get sucked into games, I can see this giving me some real bad headaches if the technology's not right.

I was at a tradeshow recently here in the UK (Gadget Show Live) and I met up with nVidia who I interviewed.  As impressive as the whole 3D scene is it just still feels like a gimmick that may wear off at any moment.  We seem to hit a 3D fad every ten years or so!

We're not currently developing for the 3DS, I imagine that the dev kits that are out in the wild are in the hands of first and second party developers.  Whether or not we'll develop for it, who's to say!  I daresay it'll all boil down to pricing of the dev kits, sales of the hardware and what kind of infrastructure Nintendo'll offer for digital distribution.

[Stratos]

Jumping off of that 3DS question, do you have any plans for DSiWare?

[legendo]

Nothing as of yet Stratos:)

Where are the staff nenvers of NWR when you want them?  I've tried emailing a few people but no reply:(

[legendo]

A selection of new screenies for you to take a look at, for those of you who don't use Facebook:)

[BeautifulShy]

legendo as far as your previous question about the staff here. PM Lindy.He is the head man here. Keep on PMing him every few days. He will get back to you eventually.

As far as the screens go it looks like you took the extra months to make it look better than before.
Keep up the good work.

[NWR_insanolord]

PM Lindy and everyone else on staff every hour, on the hour. That's sure to get their attention.