In other news...

[lbd_nytetrayn]

PSP's Rockman Rockman and Irregular Hunter X are coming Stateside! Woo-freakin'-hoo!

Their names?

Mega Man: Powered Up and Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X

Interview with Keiji Inafune and Tatsuya Kitabayashi is here, where they discuss more details about the game. Seems Kitabayashi of the recent X games is behind these new babies, while Inafune is heavily involved as well.

But this part gets me:

Inafune: Believe it or not, what you're seeing on the PSP is what I originally intended Mega Man to look like. But as I was making the game for the NES, there were limitations on the hardware and the graphics, so he ended up looking how he looked in those games. Now that I have hardware that has far fewer limitations as far as the graphics, I can finally show the true Mega Man that I wanted to show.

...

I dare say that I believe that the PlayStation if not the Super NES would have been quite capable of achieving the desired results insofar as Rockman's design.

I personally prefer how he came out.

I do love Kitabayashi's reaction when Inafune comes a-knockin' with two new bosses, though.

Ugh.

Will this change the story significantly, I wonder?

LBD "Nytetrayn"

Comments

[makou.livejournal.com]

Megaman looks anything but "powered up" in this game. Unless you count his HEAD...

Of course, I have call bullshit on Inafune, in regards to that quote. If that's what he originally intended the character to look like, why do all of his pre-production sketches of Megaman depict the NES-proportioned character we all came to know?

[lbd-nytetrayn.livejournal.com]

If that's what he originally intended the character to look like, why do all of his pre-production sketches of Megaman depict the NES-proportioned character we all came to know?

Theoretically, he might've been working around the parameters? Still, I'm pretty sure I've seen the SD form achieved on the NES... wasn't there a port of Bonk at one point?

And if not that, then Super Mario Bros. 2.

LBD "Nytetrayn"

[(Anonymous)]

I know for a fact there was a Bonk on the Game Boy. Not sure about the NES, but close enough.

[lbd-nytetrayn.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

LBD "Nytetrayn"

[emerald084.livejournal.com]

true...I mean, that's Bobble head man, not Megaman.

[steelthorns.livejournal.com]

...I don't know if I should be happy about it coming stateside, or track the creator down to kill him.

[lbd-nytetrayn.livejournal.com]

Think of it as a package deal. At least we get X, too.

LBD "Nytetrayn"

[steelthorns.livejournal.com]

*whines* But I don't like X that much. I want people to take the Classic series seriously, and this totally doesn't help. *end whining*

[lbd-nytetrayn.livejournal.com]

Ditto. But then, Classic series has always sort of been their Mario, so I view this as being an almost Paper Mario-esque entry.

Except that I worry they may seek to redefine the Classic series as this.

LBD "Nytetrayn"

[lbd-nytetrayn.livejournal.com]

If he wants to try something new with it, then fine, no problems here. But yeah, "this is how I wanted it" ain't gonna fly.

LBD "Nytetrayn"

[frash.livejournal.com]

I think the designs are okay (but I have some beef against noses on characters who didn't have noses originally... I'm looking at you Ice Man and Fire Man). It beats the redesigns of the mavericks from Maverick Hunter X.

[lbd-nytetrayn.livejournal.com]

I like MM:PU(ouch, irony, or foreshadowing?) in the same way I like Paper Mario. It's a neat little trip, but I don't think I like the idea of the entire original franchise being reinvented in such a way.

As for the noses... wow, hadn't noticed. I guess Japan really DID like what Jazwares did.

As for MHX, I've no serious gripes yet, except that the polygon count seems a bit low.

LBD "Nytetrayn"

[frash.livejournal.com]

I seriously doubt they did like what Jazwares did, but as more of an eerie coincidence.

The only time Fire Man or Ice Man had noses were in the Ariga mangas.

[frash.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be seriously disappointed if Heat Man and Wood Man get noses in Rock Rock Man 2.