Comments on: White Knight Chronicles gets 29/40 in Famitsu

By: airdom

airdom — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:59:55 +0000

White Knight Chronicles is the new Last Remnant

By: g00nerz

g00nerz — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:48:50 +0000

@ 599USD “Looks like the Sony fanboys last great hope is gonna fail them.”

Surely that would be Killzone2 or Heavy Rain or MAG or GOW3 or Infamous or GT5 or The Agency or Tears of Blood or yadayadayada…

By: dirigiblebill

dirigiblebill — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:45:33 +0000

@ 599USD

You certainly cost a pretty sum for someone who can’t punctuate.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:25:00 +0000

I wish I could stick 599USD and theevilaires in a room and let them doomspoon each other to death.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:17:32 +0000

@ 599USD

What do you think about abiogenesis?

Agree with the theory?

By: 599USD

599USD — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:11:27 +0000

Looks like the Sony fanboys last great hope is gonna fail them.

By: dirigiblebill

dirigiblebill — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:01:25 +0000

OMG TEH NON-PLATFORM-BIAS1!

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:46:28 +0000

34/40 – 8, 8, 9, 9.

By: dirigiblebill

dirigiblebill — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:43:49 +0000

Ta for that Blerk. Anybody know what they gave Valkyria Chronicles?

By: Verde

Verde — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:40:41 +0000

Judging from The Last Remnant’s score, I’m not sure how in-tune Famitsu is with what I like. They gave Nintendogs a high score, didn’t they, like a 40/40? Ridiculous!

All this low score means is Famitsu didn’t receive a nice check along with their review copies .

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:38:53 +0000

JinTypeNoir’s got one on the EG thread.

By: dirigiblebill

dirigiblebill — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:31:37 +0000

True enough, I suppose.

WKC does look quite generic, and Level 5 doesn’t have the best pedigree when it comes to combat systems – “button-mashy but entertaining” seems to be the most they can muster.

Would be interesting to read the whole review. Anybody care to sidle in with a transcript?

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:22:41 +0000

Famitsu really don’t have a clue about FPS games though. The Haze score didn’t surprise me in the least bit.

By: dirigiblebill

dirigiblebill — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:15:52 +0000

It’s probably worth recalling here that Famitsu gave the delightful Haze a respectable 34/40. Hmmmmm.

By: g00nerz

g00nerz — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:13:19 +0000

Well fuck a duck. If Last Remnant got 38/40, this game must be complete and utter shite. What a disappointment. Interested to see what Western journo’s make of it.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:15:23 +0000

I get the idea we might be losing quite a lot in the translation, there.

By: DaMan

DaMan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:07:47 +0000

“It is “the same” as every other Level-5 RPG in that “sadness befalls the land”.”

I ‘m sure it’s the same “sadness”-wise. But gameplay-wise it looks very good.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:51:56 +0000

I like to think you have that set up as a macro.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:48:45 +0000

OMG, the PS3 really is shit isn’t it?

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:26:39 +0000

Well, quite – if they give middling games like Rogue Galaxy and Last Remnant really high scores, 29 for WKC suddenly doesn’t seem quite so hot.

By: Robo_1

Robo_1 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:26:06 +0000

Ouch, this was Sony’s big hope for Japan. That’s gonna hurt!

By: Shatner

Shatner — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:22:22 +0000

Not sure what this means. Rogue Galaxy got a whopper of a score if I recall and I thought the game was pretty to look at but no fun.

Then again, I think 99% of Level 5 are now churning out Professor Layton spinoffs. Thank heavens. I was running out of mini-puzzlegame-collections and brainteasers on my DS. Phew!

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:14:52 +0000

Oh dear. A sub-30 score from Famitsu is really quite poor, the equivalent of a 5 or 6.

Guess they didn’t book enough advertising.