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Macaw

News of this game leaked about 5 months ago, but only now have IGS properly announced it. http://www.igs.com.tw/product/orlegend2/preview/main.php

This really is an unbeleivable company. Releasing a 2d final fight style brawler in 2007 and single handedly keeping alive a genre that has been more or less dead since the mid 90's. I am of course refering to arcade offerings anyway... garbage like Guardian Heroes Advance doesnt count.

There has also been rumours that this game will utilise a card system (!!) Only rumours at the moment, but if its true then it would be a pretty awesome way to revitilise the genre, with players being able to save their characters growth, high scores and so on.

Its unknown at the moment whether this game runs on the PGM hardware, and the site doesnt have screenshots up yet, although there is a flash game that seems to utilise sprites from the game which look quite good.

Its been 4 years since IGS's last beat-em-up, which had 3 different names for the Chinese, US and Japanese releases (Shen Jian/The Gladiator/Road of The Sword) and since then the company has only released one 2d game, the highly poor 1vs1 fighter Spectral vs Generation, so its good to see IGS are finally back at making what they do best instead of churning out a neverending amount of music games.
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Ara Ararauna, Blue and Gold Macaw, 32-34 inches
They are adaptable, and enjoy being in social situations. They readily become adept at performing tricks, and seem to love doing so. Cost:$900-1400

Recap · Borderline recluse Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1073

Didn't know about this project. Thank you. I don't find it so "unbelievable", though. The Asian market is still very open to this genre. There're even MMORPGs which just clone Shadow over Mystara's concept.

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JoshF · Outta My Way Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 603

Yay, another Journey to the West remake a.k.a. obligatory template for manga/anime/drama/game when they can't come up with an original story or characters.
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Macaw · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject:

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Ganelon · Outta My Way Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 958

You want more Saiyuki? Wow, more power to you. The characters there have bored me to pieces since I was like 10 years old. Maybe that's why remakers always make abundant changes to the character designs (although Oriental Legend was pretty faithful). It's good to see IGS still hanging in there though.

Gaijin Punch · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:59 pm Post subject:

I played this. It is by no means a bad game. This definitely not my genre though.

Ganelon · Outta My Way Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 958

Is IGS truly the only developer left making 2D arcade beat-em-ups? I know some are still slowly trickling through to the DS (like Fullmetal Alchemist Dual Sympathy).

Macaw · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:48 am Post subject:

icycalm · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:18 am Post subject:

I found Sengoku 3 rather boring, though it did look good.

I am looking forward to playing this once it comes out. Neither Mak nor G-Front are listing it, so GP must be referring to some other game.
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Macaw · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:36 am Post subject:

Just curious, how well do IGS games usualy get distributed in Japan, and are there many people that play them there?
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Ara Ararauna, Blue and Gold Macaw, 32-34 inches
They are adaptable, and enjoy being in social situations. They readily become adept at performing tricks, and seem to love doing so. Cost:$900-1400

Gaijin Punch · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:03 am Post subject:

Macaw · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:50 am Post subject:

came across this site: http://www.ric.hi-ho.ne.jp/wizard/legend2/le2_index.html

My Japanese is crap so someone else please feel free to clarify anything, but from what I gather it appears as though the game does run on PGM, has 10 playable characters, and it does indeed use a card system. Also there was a location test in Taiwan last year.

Seems IGS isnt holding back on this one. Huge amount of features, a card system that would certainly be costing the company heaps (Would I be correct in saying this is the first 2d arcade game to have a card feature?), and a extremely nice looking website.

If anyone comes across any video's with footage of the game from a test or somthing then please do post it here!
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Ara Ararauna, Blue and Gold Macaw, 32-34 inches
They are adaptable, and enjoy being in social situations. They readily become adept at performing tricks, and seem to love doing so. Cost:$900-1400

icycalm · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:11 pm Post subject:

It says it's got 4-player co-op, and it details some of the moves.

The screenshots from that poster look awesome, though they are rather small so you can't see much detail...

I made a post on IC about this, so I guess I'll go update it with the new details.
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Macaw · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:06 pm Post subject:

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Macaw · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject:

nem · Exchange Student Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 89

Gorgeous screens on that poster. I like the art as well.

citcelaid · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject:

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citcelaid · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:53 pm Post subject:

Funny thing is I actually played the game on a low res cab.

The fresher gameplay made it a winner for me at least. The predecessor got a bit too tedious.

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Macaw · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:49 am Post subject:

citcelaid · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:40 am Post subject: