13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim just gets more and more difficult to understand. It's been years since the project was announced and we've still barely seen it in action. Japanese developer Vanillaware has a proven track record of making spellbinding games, so most are prepared to cut the studio some slack, but this whole thing's starting to feel like a bit of a farce.
Just announced, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Prologue will launch in Japan on the 14th March. As the name suggests, it's basically an early look at the release, featuring the game's first three hours. However, Prologue isn't some free demo -- you've gotta cough up 980 yen for it.
What's more, your progress in Prologue won't carry over to the full release. We're kind of getting Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes vibes, but at least that was its own contained story and setting.
Prologue can be bought standalone, or it can be nabbed as part of new Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir and Dragon's Crown Pro packages. Of course, the most questionable element of all of this is that we still haven't properly seen the game being played, so we're still mostly clueless as to what you actually do in it. Hopefully we get an in-depth trailer sooner rather than later.
[source gematsu.com]
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It comes with 2 themes and a bunch of avatars too. I mean, I wouldn't pay for any of that stuff but how much do they normally cost, when they are not free? You could probably spend that much buying them all individually if you for some reason wanted them.
One of those pesky cases of "perception of value" again isn't it? Grrrr
@kyleforrester87 More a case of "what the **** is this game will someone please tell me what this game actually is before I lose my mind".
@ShogunRok weirder things have come from Japan
Remind me more of Gran Turismo 5: Prologue
@DarthAmmii It's the schoolgirls, isn't it?
I have a clearer idea of the gameplay of Death Stranding 😅 enough said
That's part of the surprise
Paying for a demo to a game we haven't seen any gameplay for.
They are releasing FFXV-like DLCs before the game? That's a new way to make money.
Think i'll finish Odinsphere first, toying with the idea of Dragons Crown Pro as it's £15 in the sale.
Infuriating, but I loved Odin Sphere and can't wait to see what this is like so I'll forgive them this once!
So if you squint a little, it sounds like they’re rolling it out kind of like a pack-in demo from back in the day (Dragon Quest VIII being released with a demo for FFXII back on PS2 comes to mind), but while trying to also provide a standalone version, which they then have to charge a nominal fee for to not render the whole exercise moot.
That kiiiind of makes some sort of backwards sense?
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