Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: Bill Aurion on August 30, 2008, 12:09:15 PM
Title: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Bill Aurion on August 30, 2008, 12:09:15 PM
黄金の絆 (Kigane no Kizuna) means "Bonds of Gold"
Genre: Action RPG Developer: Jaleco Ltd. (NEW Jaleco, which has little to do with the one of old) Release: Winter 2008
Scenario: Miwa Shouda (FFXII, Saga Frontier, Little King's Story) Director/Programmer: Youichi Kawaguchi (DQVIII, Little King's Story)
~ Main character is Lian (Leon) ~ Visuals will have a stylized "sketch" effect to them ~ More than 100 quests ~ Accumulated gauge techniques can be used ~ Huge bosses, find the weak point by pointing the Wii remote on screen; you also point at the enemy you wish to target
Also have a delicious taste of the game's art and screens, which are contained on a single, huge 4MB-sized image ripped from the game's website (http://www.sendspace.com/file/vfh2ua)...
Collection of music ripped from the website (http://www.sendspace.com/file/v6zgll) (Thanks to Stormbringer at GAF!)
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Caliban on August 30, 2008, 09:25:40 PM
I hope they release some videos sometime in the near future, but maybe we will have to wait until TGS.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Bill Aurion on August 31, 2008, 02:13:49 PM
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: BeautifulShy on August 31, 2008, 02:25:39 PM
I haven't seen this type of art style before.I like it.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: KDR_11k on August 31, 2008, 02:55:03 PM
Looks like PS2ish browns and greys along with a hard "cel" shading like Suda 51 loves. I don't like it, especially since4 the attempt at fur shading looks completely out of place because of it.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Caliban on August 31, 2008, 07:59:42 PM
I like it. I would just hope it would be in 16:9, and support progressive scan, but I doubt it will have both. I will take it as it is anyway.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: KDR_11k on September 01, 2008, 01:08:28 AM
Nintendo really should have made those things mandatory...
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Schadenfreude on September 02, 2008, 11:21:10 PM
Looks neat to me. Hope it plays as well as it looks. The graphics aren't amazing but they're distinct and that's what makes up for it.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Bill Aurion on September 03, 2008, 01:06:29 AM
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Kairon on September 03, 2008, 03:49:31 AM
Woah! Un-watermarked images! Where did you find these awesome treasures Bill?
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Bill Aurion on September 13, 2008, 10:56:54 PM
A little late, but I found them on the internet... :cool;
I found a nice collection of Kizuna music (http://www.sendspace.com/file/v6zgll) ripped from its website, and it's EXCELLENT STUFF! (Thanks to Stormbringer at GAF!)
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: ShyGuy on September 13, 2008, 11:13:13 PM
You know I liked best about these screens so far? Self-shadowing.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: KDR_11k on September 14, 2008, 03:58:41 AM
You know I liked best about these screens so far? Self-shadowing.
I recall some otherwise graphically advanced game not having self shadowing because it looked like ass on organic shapes.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on September 14, 2008, 05:59:17 AM
There's no self-shadowing on those screens. Just dark cel-shades.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: ShyGuy on September 14, 2008, 12:27:47 PM
Maybe I'm using the wrong term, but the shadows are moving on the orcs' bodies from screen to screen.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: KDR_11k on September 15, 2008, 02:21:49 AM
That's shading or lighting :P
Super Mario Sunshine already had custom light falloffs before Wind Waker showed cel shading on the system, I think SMS could have looked celshaded with a different falloff curve.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Stogi on September 15, 2008, 01:59:38 PM
The intro sounds exactly like Avatar: the last airbender (The song that's usually played at the end of the episode when everything starts to die down).
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: BeautifulShy on January 20, 2009, 10:29:41 PM
I have some bad news...Jaleco has left the game industry. Here is the sad news (http://Http://gonintendo.com/?p=69809)
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Bill Aurion on January 20, 2009, 10:32:07 PM
I'll just boost morale by stating that it's unlikely GameYarou bought Jaleco only to cancel the one game that they have in development, especially one with such potential as Kizuna...
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: BeautifulShy on January 20, 2009, 10:35:55 PM
Well Bill I hope you are right.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Adrock on January 20, 2009, 10:44:08 PM
Me too. I was really looking forward to the game.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on January 20, 2009, 10:45:32 PM
LIMBO
DO THE LIMBO
LIMBO LIMBO LIMBO
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: BeautifulShy on February 14, 2009, 09:02:11 PM
Game still in development,Developer Blog. (http://Http://gonintendo.com/?p=72772) I am relieved that this is still in development.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: NovaQ on February 15, 2009, 11:44:27 AM
Nice, it lives! I was looking forward to this until I heard about Jaleco shutting down.
I'm a little confused how it's still alive, though. Is the company Jaleco sold all of their shares to, Game Yarou, publishing the title or something?
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: BeautifulShy on February 15, 2009, 04:24:19 PM
I'm not really sure why the game is still in development but I'm not complaining!
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Caliban on February 15, 2009, 05:43:10 PM
Good news, good news indeed.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Stratos on February 16, 2009, 12:49:04 AM
They probably only lost their support and funding from Jaleco. The game itself was only relying on money from Jaleco so all that may need to happen (and may already have done so) is another publisher to step in. They could not have a publisher but are confident enough in the game that they are still working on it in hopes of a publisher agreeing to pick it up.
This looks like a job for...XSEED! Seeing as they are the hero underground-indie publisher of the hour.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on February 16, 2009, 01:47:33 AM
Jaleco was always a small publisher worldwide, and it's impossible now for Jaleco to publish anything anymore since they are out of business Kizuna will be funded by Game Yarou, I have a feeling that Marvelous will pick up the rights to publish in Japan and have a copublishing in NA of Marevlous/XSEED (xseed is helping marvelous build a US presence afterall).
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Stratos on February 17, 2009, 12:42:57 AM
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Caliban on March 06, 2009, 03:05:33 PM
Maybe lack of funding. I still think the game looks interesting.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: SirSniffy on March 06, 2009, 10:29:20 PM
This looks very nice...this would be so cool if it got translated.
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: BeautifulShy on March 23, 2009, 06:13:00 PM
A little bit of info about the status of Jaleco Limited and if the title will make it out of Japan (http://gonintendo.com/?p=76566)
- Jaleco Limited will operate normally under GameYarou’s full ownership - no changes will be made - the Jaleco brand name will be kept - work on Kizuna continues towards a May 28th release in Japan
When Mr. Takakura was asked about Kizuna coming outside of Japan, his answer was “Unfortunately, I can’t tell you yet, but wait for it.”
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: Stratos on March 23, 2009, 09:04:40 PM
A little bit of info about the status of Jaleco Limited and if the title will make it out of Japan (http://gonintendo.com/?p=76566)
- Jaleco Limited will operate normally under GameYarou’s full ownership - no changes will be made - the Jaleco brand name will be kept - work on Kizuna continues towards a May 28th release in Japan
When Mr. Takakura was asked about Kizuna coming outside of Japan, his answer was “Unfortunately, I can’t tell you yet, but wait for it.”
Hmmm, does that mean he unfortunately can't tell us a date yet but it is coming or that unfortunately he doesn't has a US publisher yet? Curious.
Thanks for the update Maxi, it is appreciated :)
Title: Re: Kizuna - The Return of Jaleco
Post by: BeautifulShy on March 23, 2009, 09:11:06 PM
I take what he said as that they are working on it.Well I guess we got to wait it out.See what comes of this situation.
