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Old 01-25-2008, 09:21 AM   #8
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There's been a lot of talk with us fans. An interview with the programmers showed them promise a more action oriented experience (a la Origins) and there isn't much talk of the actual story, something which has always been held closer to the hearts of fans than combat.

From what we've seen, the game appears to have lost its sense of isolation with the massive rooms we see, the game doesn't appear that dark, and one scene seems like a blatant rip-off of the cubical scene in the SH film (to which we want to see SHV more like the original games, not like the film).

Seeing yet another 'devil child' doesn't fill anyone with confidence as far as originality goes.

Basically, these new developers are promising game design decisions no one has asked for.

I'll still grab it, unless it gets seriously bad scores, but not many are holding much hope.

The other fear is, of course, with 5 game already, the concept is going stale no matter how hard people are trying. Perhaps this is why the series has been outsourced to western developers in the first place, because Team Silent and the rest of Konami realise things aren't gonna get much better, so may as well let other developers do all the work and, if they're bad, take the fall.
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