Disaster Report 2!

Sure, the first never got much love, and it certainly had problems, but I still liked it - so I'm happy as a clam to see a sequel. I just hope that the development team actually learned something from the first game, and fixed some of their mistakes. (Questionable control, characters who need to drink water every five minutes or they die from dehydration, feeling the need to dumb down the storyline into typical videogame fare in the last 1/4th of the game, etc.)

According to the Magic Box, the second game "takes place in an underground city in the winter time of year 2010, where the torrential rain and mass water flowed into the city." I'm not quite sure how it is raining in an underground city, and some of the shots have skylines in them, but whatever the case is, this time the disaster is water instead of earthquake. The game features two major characters, a guy and a girl, and gameplay is traded off between the two character's storylines.

Game is set for release on Feb. 21st in Japan. I'm not sure how the first one did sales wise over here, so it is anybody's guess if this will come our way.

Magic Box link

I never did pick up the first and I always wanted to. I need to pick it up if I can find it. It's cool to see that it is getting a sequel.

Monotomous stealth missions? Maybe...

http://www.the-magicbox.com/0512/irem9.jpg

ugh.

Hopefully that stays over there

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Originally Posted by Joust Williams

Hopefully that stays over there

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You're more than welcome to not post in this thread.

I heard that the last title was pretty much a love/hate game that people could only really appreciate if they can get over some of the games major flaws. Is this headed to European shoreS?

The problem with the first was, before you could decide if you liked the game or not, you had to decide if you could get past its flaws or not. A lot of people don't have the patience / willingness / whatever to keep trying a game that initially seems like crap, so it lost a lot of people there.

If you weren't willing to accept the flaws and look past them, and if you weren't interested in the idea that the game presented, then it came off as being a crap game. I don't think it was, though - I think it was a fun and interesting games that REALLY could have benefitted from more development time, or developers who cared about the game more and had more ambitious plans for it.

As far as Western release, I'm not sure anything has been said yet about an English version. If anybody hears anything, by all means post about it.

I liked the first one, although not to the point of playing through it multiple times to get all the endings. I didn't mind its faults, and water was plentiful enough that it was never an issue. It wasn't perfect, but it was good fun for the $10 I paid.

I'd love to see the sequel over here. Hopefully Agetec sold enough to make it worth their time.

James

Yeah, that's what I think I paid - $10, and it was certainly worth that. Of course, waiting that long to buy it doesn't help Agetec any in the effort of bringing over the second one. *heh*

Hello, US release-

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/750/750696p1.html

I'm pretty sure that's the same game. It's not like there are a ton of alternatives in the natural disaster genre.

James