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April 25th, 2008 @ 10:03
Watch Impress is carrying a heap of screens from Siren: New Translation, the newly-announced PS3 SCEJ horror. Looking good. No date as yet, and no word of western release, but you can pretty much take is as a given this is going to make it outside Japan. Do want, definitely. It’s down for a July 24 release.
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April 25th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Demo’s on the Japanese marketplace, and Gamesyde have a ten minute video of it here:
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_6374_en.html
April 25th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Ta. Got to run, but I’ll look later.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:30 am
That girl really needs to use non-running mascara.
April 25th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Yeah, picked up the demo last night and will give it a go tonight. Definitely looks interesting
April 25th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Demo’s out you say? Oooh now that’s nice to know!
April 25th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Check out disc’s comments on the EG thread for his first impressions.
I’ve just watched the vid and it appears to be quite changed from the original game - more like a cross between Siren and Resi 4 than a rehash of the original, with far less emphasis on the stealth and much improved combat (i.e. it’s actually possible to hit something).
April 25th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Spent two hours playing the demo this morning - detailed impressions on http://www.pspsps.tv plug plug - and it IS Siren crossed with Resi 4. At least for the section of game covered by the demo. Its ending suggests it’ll mix up the more action-focussed sections with some tense stealth sections. As one of the only games where I think stealth truly works, this is a good thing. But yep - combat’s less clunky, and it looks lovely.
Western release please, Sony. Ta.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Nice article, Hero.
I’m quite upbeat about this now! I always wanted to like Siren. With Silent Hill looking like it’s going to be a dog’s dinner and Project Zero defecting to Wii, it’s nice to get some good survival horror news for a change!
April 25th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Do the Shibito still come back to life after a while like they do in the original, btw? Or are they proper dead once you’ve brained them with a pickaxe?
April 25th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
They seem to stay dead for longer. There was only one point I noticed where one came back to life, and I’d wandered quite a way away before that happened, so I’m not sure if it’s a time or a distance thing. During the bit where you have to smash the lock off a door I kept looking behind me to make sure the recently-brained shibito hadn’t got up!
April 25th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Excellent. Slow-moving stealth and hastily reanimating baddies were a recipe for disaster for me in the first game.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Did you play the second? Was much better. Still a little clunky in places, but worth persevering with - and its story is amazing. There’s one really horrible level though - basically, if you get spotted at all you’re dead. And there are tons of shibito.
I hope this retains the bleakness of the first two. Part of the fun is guessing what horrible fate is going to meet the characters you’re controlling.
April 25th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
No, I didn’t play the second game because of my experiences with the first one. Perhaps I should’ve given it a go. Bit late now, though!