June 11, 2005 - Aqua Plus is the latest Japanese publisher supporting the PSP format. The developer of To Heart announced this past week three PSP games, all of which are being brought over from the PC.
First up is the adventure-simulation, Comic Party Portable. You play as a college student who, despite his genius at art, attends a normal college and leads a normal, boring student life. One day, you're asked to join a group called Comic Party that works on producing a comic magazine. The game takes you through one full year as you meet girls and attempt to solve their problems, all the while producing the comic magazine.
A large female cast of characters features in Comic Party. Mizuki Takase goes to college with you and has actually been your good friend since high school. She's against your joining the Comic Party. You'll also encounter the likes of Minami Makimura, Chisa Tsukamoto, Eiko Haga, Yu Inagawa, Aya Hasebe and Subaru Mikage (yes, we're too lazy to list the details of every single character).
Gameplay in Comic Party centers on your daily routine. On weekdays, you plan the week ahead, budgeting your time for creating the various areas of the comic magazine. Don't forget to include breaks in the day, or you'll run out of energy. Once you've set up a schedule, the game automatically takes you through your daily routine.
Weekends and holidays are a bit different, as you carry out your plan the day that you make it. You can plan two actions on these days. If you want, you can use your time off to work on the comic, but your real goal is to make phone calls and head out on excursions with the girls. When meeting with the girls, you take part in interactive conversation sequences.
Based on the Comic Party game that originally appeared on the PC, then followed with a Dreamcast release late in the system's life, Aqua Plus is planning a number of improvements for the PSP version. In addition to added event images and the ability to save images to Memory Stick, the game also features a new animated opening intro. A Japanese release is set for Summer. Aqua Plus plans on including volume one of the Comic Party Revolution anime on a UMD bonus disk for the first run of the game. Later entries in the anime will be released as separate UMDs.
Fewer details have been provided on the two other PSP titles. Routes Portable is an adventure game with love and suspense themes. You play as Souichi, a seemingly normal student who sleeps during class. The game begins when, one day, Souichi and his female school friends, Satsuki and Yukari, find themselves caught up in an incident involving a mysterious girl named Lisa. The three end up being top class secret agents.
Gameplay looks like it involves still animated frames filled with text to read. This is perhaps why the game is described by some as a visual sound novel.
Like Comic Party, Routes Portable is being improved over its original version -- in fact, the developers at Aqua Plus are calling it a completely new version of the game rather than a port. The PSP version will have new characters and character designs, added scenarios, new artwork, an animated introduction and a new soundtrack. A release date has yet to be announced.
Finally, the most mysterious of the three PSP announcements: Kizoato Portable. This suspenseful adventure game begins one month following the death of your father as you visit your father's home. There, you find yourself surrounded by a group of four girls who were working for your father prior to his death. The girls are all sad, and it's your job to bring back their smiles.
The female cast includes, in order of stature in the household, Chizuru, Azusa, Kaede and Hatsune. Character illustrations and visuals are being completely redone for the PSP version, which will also feature full voice. Aside from that, little is known about the title, which is currently 10% complete.
With Aqua Plus and Idea Factory on board with the PSP, we expect Interchannel and KID to follow. |
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发表于 2005-6-12 09:23:41
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