Mon 17 Sep 2007
1:25 am
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Along with some game called Ikaruga.
One of my fondest hopes for this generation was to see a sequel to Rez show up on 360 and/or PS3. Today, that dream seems a little more realistic with the announcement at Microsoft's pre-TGS press briefing that RezHD will be appearing on Xbox Live Arcade in early 2008. It's not a sequel, but no Rez fan can complain about playing the game in HD and 5.1 surround sound. Plus, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect at least one new level or two, Tetsuya Mizuguchi pretty much promised it:
Personally, Rez has been and will always be a lifelong concept. I hope to take what I learned from the experience of creating the original game and look forward to taking it to a whole new level in the future.
See that? "A whole new level"! OK, maybe that's not what he meant, but it does give hope for the possibility of a sequel somewhere down the line.
This is one instance where they've got me at their mercy in terms of downloadable content. Rez's levels were all very self-contained, each based around an individual piece of music, so downloadable levels/songs would be perfect. Let's just hope they don't sell the game piece by piece. This is Q Entertainment we're talking about.
For all you Treasure fans out there, Ikaruga has also been reconfirmed for XBLA and should be out "soon". It has 2-player co-op but they don't specify whether that is local, online, or both…
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September 17th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I had read Ikaruga will have online co-op, but Ikaruga is simply not a fun game to play 2 player so I don’t care.
Is Q publishing RezHD or is it still being done through Sega?
September 17th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Everything I’ve read really only mentions Q but on Q’s RezHD website it does say:
© Q Entertainment Inc. © SEGA
at the bottom.
A Babelfish translation of the site lists Q as “Development Origin” and “Sale Origin”. I’d wager “sale origin” is a mangled translation of “Publisher”.
http://www.qentertainment.com/2007/09/rezxbox_live.html
Also:
“The Minakuchi Tetuya produce work ‘ Rez which is proud of charisma popularity in the entire world ‘ this winter in®for the Xbox LIVE arcade sale decision!”
If that doesn’t clear it up, I don’t know what will.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Interesting. Hopefully Sega sells the rights to more of their franchises to their estranged creators.