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http://down.videogamerx.net/news/20050223/gantz.wmv
Boobie jiggle factor - 8.5
It actually looks pretty decent.
http://down.videogamerx.net/news/20050223/gantz.wmv
Boobie jiggle factor - 8.5
It actually looks pretty decent.
Gantz: The Game - Trailer
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Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
What is this?
Crazymoogle
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I'm not holding any hope for the game. 
Manga license and a superb game concept that sadly is probably just a slam-dunk license job right now as it seems to be trying to re-enact the manga rather than make a good freeform experience.
Concept: Certain people who are about to die in Tokyo are instead teleported to an inpenetrable room in the Tokyo Tower. Any wounds they may have had are gone, usually leaving everybody to think they are in the afterlife.
A giant black ball in the middle of the room known as "Gantz" gives out free alien guns and other technology, black suits that grant superhuman strength/agility, and a single task: to kill the specified person (usually an alien in disguise) on the streets of tokyo within the time limit.
The problem is, Gantz has a warped sense of humor. There's no instructions on what any of the tools of the trade actually do. There's no standards on who gets picked (gangsters, schoolgirls, animals, whatever). Leave the combat zone, and your head explodes. Players are automatically teleported to the streets and while they can still interact with their surroundings, they cannot be seen or heard by anyone not playing the game...with the exception of the alien, which gets really pissed off at the whole thing.
As you can imagine, almost every character introduced tends to die. The writer also tries to push the sex/violence appeal a lot, hence the jiggle factor.
Yeah, cel shaded, although it looks weirdly low-res somehow. And the trailer music is trash. Rip Slyme from the anime is pretty funny, but the series music and "Last Kiss" were more of the defining tracks to me.
Manga license and a superb game concept that sadly is probably just a slam-dunk license job right now as it seems to be trying to re-enact the manga rather than make a good freeform experience.
Concept: Certain people who are about to die in Tokyo are instead teleported to an inpenetrable room in the Tokyo Tower. Any wounds they may have had are gone, usually leaving everybody to think they are in the afterlife.
A giant black ball in the middle of the room known as "Gantz" gives out free alien guns and other technology, black suits that grant superhuman strength/agility, and a single task: to kill the specified person (usually an alien in disguise) on the streets of tokyo within the time limit.
The problem is, Gantz has a warped sense of humor. There's no instructions on what any of the tools of the trade actually do. There's no standards on who gets picked (gangsters, schoolgirls, animals, whatever). Leave the combat zone, and your head explodes. Players are automatically teleported to the streets and while they can still interact with their surroundings, they cannot be seen or heard by anyone not playing the game...with the exception of the alien, which gets really pissed off at the whole thing.
As you can imagine, almost every character introduced tends to die. The writer also tries to push the sex/violence appeal a lot, hence the jiggle factor.
Kiriku said:It looked decent...and cel-shaded?
Shitty music though, I was hoping for some RIP SLYME. Maybe they "need like a break".
Yeah, cel shaded, although it looks weirdly low-res somehow. And the trailer music is trash. Rip Slyme from the anime is pretty funny, but the series music and "Last Kiss" were more of the defining tracks to me.
Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
wow, great concept for a game. Thanks. Hope it holds some of the inspiration. PS2 title?
Crazymoogle
Member
Musashi Wins! said:
Yeah.
FeedMeAStrayCat
Member
This game actually sounds quite awesome. That's a great background story right there for a game.. 
Crazymoogle
Member
ferricide said:
I suppose, although that really depends on how well ADV's release experiment goes. GANTZ has all of the signature Ninja Scroll elements, but I don't know how well NS did before it received occasional TV airings.
The manga itself is something I enjoy, but I readily admit the author has no sense of pacing whatsoever. It does really irritate me when licenses like this get abused though. GANTZ and BLAME! would both make really good games if the the developer had a better idea of what to do rather than just pumping out a cash-in product in eight months.
if the anime one stop top 10 (posted on AOD) is any indication, it didn't seem to affect it much. vol 1 showed up in the top 10 despite the lame release style. of course, i have no idea what that portends for overall popularity at large.Crazymoogle said:
who's putting the game out? the movie doesn't indicate.
Spiritreaver
Member
:lol I feel your pain though.Kiriku said:Shitty music though, I was hoping for some RIP SLYME. Maybe they "need like a break".
Crazymoogle
Member
ferricide said:
Well, that's just it. Historically (unless I'm forgetting something), no matter how popular the series is with the american fan community, nothing happens unless there's:
a: a concerted team marketing effort (.hack, SAC, FMA). I suppose Cowboy Bebop is about to become the exception but as series go it's still unusually easy to find regular store shelves.
b: a notable mainstream DVD/TV success (Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, although I don't think the latter ever saw a game release). Quality-aside, you basically have the same chance of finding these DVDs as any regular movie in any regular DVD store.
I mean, Bandai has been cancelling their own One Piece SKUs for years, and that's not even close to the whole ADV/Konami debacle.
Konami is publishing, although I'm not convinced they developed it. The boxart shot is blurry, but it appears to be under supervision from producer Atsushi Harigami? I can't even tell if the last name is spelled like that. I seem to remember an older japanese magazine score thread panning the game, but maybe I was confusing it for a different licensed title.
Apharmd Battler
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Actually, I'm curious about the anime (uncut edition was recntly released in the states by ADV). I may wait until Anime Cetral con this May to check it out, but I keep hearing the story premise and it sounds interesting. Sorry to drag the thread slightly off-topic.
CamHostage
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Konami Gantz Site
There be some more there, if you are interested. None of the severed limb gore that the series runs deep with, however.
There be some more there, if you are interested. None of the severed limb gore that the series runs deep with, however.
aha. atsushi horigami. KCEJ. his last game was cy girls. aren't you excited now!?
he seemed like a really nice guy when i interviewed him after TGS 03. the interpreter was awful, though, so i doubt anything interesting came through. plus, uh, the game the interview was about. oh well:
http://archive.gamespy.com/interviews/december03/cygirls/
he seemed like a really nice guy when i interviewed him after TGS 03. the interpreter was awful, though, so i doubt anything interesting came through. plus, uh, the game the interview was about. oh well:
http://archive.gamespy.com/interviews/december03/cygirls/
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Looks like a anime / manga hybrid.
The "Gantz Cycle" was never in the anime. And the mission log on the website seems like it would stretch beyond the anime.
Udde
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http://www.konamijpn.co.jp/products/gantz/chara_index.html
Well, watching the small videos in the char section, it seams at least it starts like the anime ^_^ Love kei's introduction
we have to wait and see if it is censored like the anime or in it's full glory like the manga...)
Well, watching the small videos in the char section, it seams at least it starts like the anime ^_^ Love kei's introduction
we have to wait and see if it is censored like the anime or in it's full glory like the manga...)Hey, FYI.
The Gantz anime sucks cock. I don't go near it.
And yeah, the game looks like shit.
Anything that's not from the blood, sweat and tears of artist Hiroya Oku is probably not worth your time.
Ferricide: I'd say that Gantz stretches beyond just plain guilty pleasure. I approached it like that for the first few volumes until I realized that Oku was actually toying with my sense of irony. It's post-modern. And if I try to explain why here, it'll only make me look like a jackass because yeah, it's got a lot of ridiculous fan service. But there are plenty of references to pick up throughout the manga. As of the latest chapter (published in Weekly Young Jump in Japan), there's a very obvious reference to Akira to VF4, for instance.
Gantz is one of those licenses that was born to be a video game. Unfortunately, it's also something that perfectly epitomizes why games and manga and anime are three completely different mediums.
The Gantz anime sucks cock. I don't go near it.
And yeah, the game looks like shit.
Anything that's not from the blood, sweat and tears of artist Hiroya Oku is probably not worth your time.
Ferricide: I'd say that Gantz stretches beyond just plain guilty pleasure. I approached it like that for the first few volumes until I realized that Oku was actually toying with my sense of irony. It's post-modern. And if I try to explain why here, it'll only make me look like a jackass because yeah, it's got a lot of ridiculous fan service. But there are plenty of references to pick up throughout the manga. As of the latest chapter (published in Weekly Young Jump in Japan), there's a very obvious reference to Akira to VF4, for instance.
Gantz is one of those licenses that was born to be a video game. Unfortunately, it's also something that perfectly epitomizes why games and manga and anime are three completely different mediums.
Worrying sign: The trailer has zero blood or violence.
After RE4, you gotta wonder about censorship in Japan these days. GANTZ is a pure nudity x violence psycho trip, to have no extreme violence in the game (obviously there won't be any nudity) would make it completely pointless.
After RE4, you gotta wonder about censorship in Japan these days. GANTZ is a pure nudity x violence psycho trip, to have no extreme violence in the game (obviously there won't be any nudity) would make it completely pointless.
duckroll said:
Although the gratuity in Gantz is one of its major tenents, I wouldn't go so far as to say that it would render the series "pointless" if it were missing the bounce and gore. If you've been following Gantz for the past 6 months or so, you'd know that there hasn't been much sex or gore in the current plotline.
Crazymoogle
Member
chespace said:
It's actually not so bad; the uncensored first season is pretty faithful to the manga, and it stays that way through the second season up to around ep 21. 21-26 is pure filler though.
True. But I would also argue by showing the difference between the mediums with such clarity, it becomes that much easier to understand how the product of one can be carried over to the others, and yet sadly it sounds like the overriding factor for the game is simply the budget. (Or maybe the development team, I mean "Cy Girls?" Dear lord...)