GAiNAX just revealed what the second half of the Evangelion Renewal Project is: A PlayStation 2 videogame tenatively titled Shin Seiki Evangelion 2.
Here's the info from Natsumemaya, which I followed from ANN:
Evangelion 2. It's been officially announced by GAiNAX that the second half of the Eva Renewal Project is Shin Seiki Evangelion 2 (tentative title), a DVD game for the Playstation 2. To be released in November 2003. To be supervised by Anno Hideaki, produced by Alpha System and marketed through Bandai. Some kind of "Evangelion world simulator". That's it? That's the big announcement?! Ho-hum.
Still, some people may be interested in the game. gameonline.jp reports that the display will be a mix of 2D scenes and 3D scenes (eg for movement, battle scenes). You start off playing Shinji but as the game progresses can also control Rei and Asuka. Work on the game is said to be 50% completed. Source: ultimatum half edition. Judging by the photos in Famitsu, looks like the game will be a retelling of the Evangelion story.
Let's just say that I for one am very releaved to hear the true nature of the announcement. For a time I was getting pretty worried...
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Eva has been dead in Japan for years. Unless they're taking advantage of some sudden jump in interest that I never knew of, they're risking cash over a dead franchise.
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Who cares if it has been dead, anyway...DBZ is still alive and kicking in Japan and has been for years, but that doesn't change the fact that it's crap.
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And there's the fact that some series are still popular even 20-30 years after they first aired. Just because a series completes its broadcast run doesn't mean that fan interest suddenly disappears.
I mean, Eva isn't refered to the "second Gundam" for nothing...
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As to this game... will I be able to alter the series history? For example, as Shinji or Asuka, choose what to do with that first kiss, etc. etc. It would pretty well suck if it was too railed, but it would also be no good if it was too free. Ah well.
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Pablo Sanchez wrote:As to this game... will I be able to alter the series history? For example, as Shinji or Asuka, choose what to do with that first kiss, etc. etc. It would pretty well suck if it was too railed, but it would also be no good if it was too free. Ah well.
Probably not...the events of the first Eva game, as I recall, took place outside of official continuity. My guess is it'll be a parallel universe type retelling (something the Japanese are quite fond of).
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There were quite a few Eva games made, and while Girlfriend of Steel and its sequal have their own individual continuities, but others followed the series closer.
It sounds like this won't be something like GoS or Raise Ayanami (IIRC, that's what it's called), but something that will pretty much follow the progression of the series.
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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Don't know, but considering that virtually all PS2 games are DVDs, maybe it's just a quirky translation...
Could be that it's a game and a DVD. You know, with actual shows and crap on it. Wasn't .hack//Infection sorta like that?
Yeah, had an OVA (LIMINALITY or something like that) packaged with it.
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Spanky, you and Utsano really missed out by not going to Animeiowa... otherwise you could have seen "Evangelion Redeath", the funniest damn NGE parody EVER.
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DPDarkPrimus wrote:Spanky, you and Utsano really missed out by not going to Animeiowa... otherwise you could have seen "Evangelion Redeath", the funniest damn NGE parody EVER.
Is that the NGE/SW crossover one? With Anakin masturbating over Amidala's dead body, and a giant Yoda head devouring Coruscant?
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DPDarkPrimus wrote:Spanky, you and Utsano really missed out by not going to Animeiowa... otherwise you could have seen "Evangelion Redeath", the funniest damn NGE parody EVER.
Is that the NGE/SW crossover one? With Anakin masturbating over Amidala's dead body, and a giant Yoda head devouring Coruscant?
...seriously what the fuck?
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Hmm, I wouldn't say they "Gundam-ised" EVA-01, per se. It looks familiar to some of the early production art of the Evangelions themselves, which were initially more built up and bulky.
Damn, now I'm actually hoping that they might release this in the US eventually...
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An idea about the armored up Eva-01. Could it possibly be a "game-universe" exclusive armor module? As I recall, the Eva's armor could be interchanged with different modules for certain situations. Like the one where Unit-02 had to get the lava-based Angel, etc...
...seriously what the fuck?
