Kagero 2: Dark Illusion

According to The Magic Box:

- Tecmo announced Kagero 2: Dark Illusion for PlayStation 2, the a new installment of the Tecmo Deception / Kagero series. In which you create traps and pitfalls in your mansion, and lead people to fall into your traps.



God bless Tecmo for realizing they have an amazing franchise not being used! I loved all 3 of the Deception games on PS1, and this new one is definately the game that will get me to buy a PS2 again (bastard launch unit crapped out on me). As long as they don't put in those annoying wizards.............

This is great news. Definitely a franchise that needed a next-gen update.

I have the first deception... Still remember the first time I killed this couple and at the end of the mission, it zooms in a kid sobbing "Mommy.... Daddy....." That's one hell of a game!

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God bless Tecmo for realizing they have an amazing franchise not being used! I loved all 3 of the Deception games on PS1, and this new one is definately the game that will get me to buy a PS2 again (bastard launch unit crapped out on me). As long as they don't put in those annoying wizards.............

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Awesome, we definitely needed a new one of these. This is pretty damn good news.

OMFG! News of the year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes!!!

I'm glad to see other people are as pumped about this as I am. This news has spurred me to go and buy Kagero and Deception 2.

Kagero was Deception 2, Deception 3 was Dark Delusion... which is a little close for comfort titularically to the just-announced offering, IMO.

They're making the numbering a little convoluted:
Tecmo's Deception
Kagero: Tecmo's Deception II
Deception III: Dark Delusion
Kagero II: Dark Illusion (Deception IV)

Interesting, my memory must be fading me because I definately didn't remember that. Oh well, that means there is just more Deception goodness for me to replay!

I never got around to playing the second or third one, but the first one still gives me some cheap pleasure every once in a while. I'll just load up my game with my castle that has 2 gargantuan hallways with the foot smasher or the poison spikes littered all over the place and go to town.

Oh fuck yes!

I just tried playing part 3 about 2 months ago (for the first time) and I just couldn't do it. God awful graphics, poorly translated story, and digital control make for a terrible experience.

It's gonna fucking rock on Xbox though.


EDIT: Fuck! It's only on PS2.

Awesome, Awesome news !!!

I love Deception series, and it is great to hear that we will get a new death trapping adventure !!!

There needs to be far more Death Trap Adventure games!

it's about god damn time. this series is the shizzle, as nothing's better than busting combos off on people with multiple traps.

haha i said shizzle

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Kagero II: Dark Illusion (Deception IV)

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Dark Forces III: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. I'm starting to love series titles, I'm still waiting to see how Tales of Destiny 2's name holds up when it hits American shores.

Back on-topic: I really like the ideas of the Deception series but everything else has been riddled with so many flaws I've never really liked playing them, I feel kinda like Korly on the matter. I hope this one is much better.

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Dark Forces III: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. I'm starting to love series titles, I'm still waiting to see how Tales of Destiny 2's name holds up when it hits American shores.

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Super Mario Advance 3: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. :D

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Back on-topic: I really like the ideas of the Deception series but everything else has been riddled with so many flaws I've never really liked playing them, I feel kinda like Korly on the matter. I hope this one is much better.

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Given Tecmo's great production values and quality this gen (Rygar, Fatal Frame, DOA, Ninja Gaiden*), I'd say that's pretty much a given.


*Please don't take my mention of Itagaki-related games as a license to deride this thread into 18 pages of bitching, people.

Heh, I was just about to suggest Itagaki take over the project. Of course, the way he talks about Kasumi makes me think he wouldn't be into letting you squash and impale her.
The 2 in the title made me think there was another PS2 Deception game. Anyways, can't wait to see how it turns out.

It's about damn time that this game was announced. I loved the one I played on the PSX, and have always wanted to see this serious return on a more advanced playform.

And I love the fact that now my very anti-PS2 friend will be forced to buy one, and he adores this series.

http://www.the-magicbox.com/0409/kagero2.jpg

Can't............................wait!!

Here are some pictures of the game from TGS, not too good graphically, but it sure does remind of why these games were so great.

PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome.

I played the hell out of a demo for Deception II, but never got around to buying any of them. Not this time though, paycheck willling.

wow, this is unexpeted.

my wife is going to be extremely psyched. she played through parts 2 and 3 at least 5 times a piece. shes mental for the series.

time to get a PS2 (im way late on it anyways...)

my bother rented Kagero (second deception game) when he got hit by a car. While he hated it, I fucking loved it.

I hope this gets released here.

Game comes out this week in Japan.

http://www.tecmo.co.jp/product/kagero2/

The American release is going to be called "Trapt".

P.S. You must view the Kagero II TV commercials on that site.

Oh wow, I completely forgot about this game. A used PS2 purchase may be in order when this comes out here.

On a side not, I went back and played Kagero over last winter break because my friend had a copy, and while the gameplay still kicks complete ass, the graphics and controls sure have aged horribly. The non analog control mixed with the muddy low res textures really made me want a new version of the game and now its finally almost here.

edit: Wow, those videos were fucking awesome. It looks like they are really making an emphasis on interactive environment traps. I especially liked the clock, and the cannon which in turn launched the guy into the ceiling, then through a glass floor. After watching those I really really need this game.

I love this series; it satasifies the sadist in all of us (or me, anyway). They have aged horribly though. Same experience as BrandX, except I went back and played through the third one instead of the second (never played the second one, oddly enough). Guh at the framerate and the muddiness and the swimming textures and the load times and how did I put up with this shit years ago? I do want to play this game, even if it has a ghetto-ass name and is sponsored by Admiral Akbar.

Some of the enviromental traps look goofy as all hell, though. One in paticular is the one where the guy gets stuck in the electric fence, only to eat a flaming dropkick from the main character (who is coming down on a zipline) into a spike wall. WTF??

-Dippy

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Some of the enviromental traps look goofy as all hell, though. One in paticular is the one where the guy gets stuck in the electric fence, only to eat a flaming dropkick from the main character (who is coming down on a zipline) into a spike wall. WTF??

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I definately agree with this, they may be goofy, but I loved using the environmental traps more so than the same old "spike wall push into falling spike rock into triple fire arrow shoot of death" type of manuver. For that reason alone I'm excited for the new one, if the environmental traps are as pletiful as the trailer makes them look, there is going to be a rediculous amount of variety to kill your enemies with.

Also, keeping the helpless little girl as the main character = :tu: :tu:

I loved the first one, especially being able to design the mansion. Also, having half of the Devil in the basement was awesome. I'll gladly give this one my time.

The dialogue in part 3 is so rediculously translated that it is nearly impossible to understand.