Summon Night 5 and Class of Heroes 3 Announcement Thread

[vicireland]

Cat's out of the bag now. Have questions? I know you do. Let's discuss.

[ramzastrife]

Since it is the obvious question, why start with 5?

[naxoman0]

I absolutely loved CoH2 and I'm going again for these two (physical if possible). When are you planning to begin the poll?

Many thanks for bringing these games to us.

Greetings from Spain.

[vicireland]

Since it is the obvious question, why start with 5?

Just got asked this on NeoGAF, so I'll cut and paste:
Time and code completeness. Because 5 was very recent, the code base and assets were pretty easy to collect and it's a great game that was a ground up effort. SN3 and 4 were ports, and though I would have liked to have started with 3, I'm not sure we'd have time to do 3,4,5 before the PSP window closes. 5, especially, is a HUGE game. Like 45,000 lines of dialogue. Nuts.

[vicireland]

I absolutely loved CoH2 and I'm going again for these two (physical if possible). When are you planning to begin the poll?

Many thanks for bringing these games to us.

Greetings from Spain.

Probably put up the poll in late May or Early June so we can run it for a month or so, and then if we hit the interest level needed we can move to the presale period. I'm reasonably confident we'll get enough interest to do a physical+digital one-off release (though the bar is higher for SN5). Looking forward to seeing what level of support we'll get.

Thanks for your support!

[ramzastrife]

Well, It is good that the cat is finally out of the bag, hopefully we get to see more PSP before the sun completely sets.

[Fabrizo1]

Question time!:

1. Do you plan to go backwards and release the older SN games as well after 5 is out? It would be strange, but I figured I'd ask anyway.
2. Other then SN and CoH, are we now out of luck at seeing other PSP titles/series come over?
3. I assume the license is through Namco Bandai, instead of via Felistella? In what ways does this help with future opportunities (do they own a number of properties your interested in or something)?

[solaris32]

I know I will want physical editions of both .

[JWiley_12]

Vic, as for the localization, how far would you say (roughly) are you through those 45,000 lines of dialogue?

I'm assuming CoH3 is done in that department (?), but if enough people are willing to buy SN5, how big of a task is the actual localization going to be still?

Also, I'm new to the Summon Night series. What would you say are its strong points? I'm assuming you like the dialogues (otherwise you'd probably not take on this daunting task), and the replayability (from what I make of your description on the website). But how is the battle system unique for example?

[MrBonkers]

Will buy both. Still haven't played CoH on PSP or PS3. But support matters.

Like others, I hope somehow we can get the other SN games someday if SN5 does well enough.

It is a shame it's relegated to the PSP though, the PSV helps but the audience on PSV seems to be not as high as it could be thanks to Sony's own decisions with the platform that have hindered it from day 1.

But if the digital audience from PSP+PSV is good enough to make some profit, then I am glad. These games deserve better!



ALSO: Licensing from Bamco gives me an incredible sense of false hope for **** like all of the PSP Tales of games we never got... (ToP:NDX, ToPX,ToD2,ToE,ToR,TotW2+3,ToVs)