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Sorcery Blade: so ugly it's cute
Teasing the December 16th release of their WiiWare RPG Sorcery Blade, Kemco released a few new screenshots. To be perfectly honest, the new screens look quite junky! But in some kind of nostalgic, PS1/N64 blurry-texture sort of way that we find charming. Were this a full-price retail title, we'd be skewering it mercilessly, but $10 is a massive bargain for a new RPG, so the fuzzy walls and oversimplistic character models are merely endearing. Speaking of character models, check out the totally mismatched NPCs, featuring Mii heads on realistically-proportioned bodies.Really, if there's anything at all to the timing-based combat, we could foresee having a great time with Sorcery Blade. That is, if Kemco decided to go to the trouble of translating it. A cheap WiiWare RPG is infinitely more interesting than a flood of color-matching puzzle games.
Sorcery Blade: first trailer of the WiiWare RPG
How do you make a cell phone RPG look great? Put it on an actual game system! World Wide Software's Sorcery Blade, a WiiWare version of the Sorcery Sword series, looks quite nice for a downloadable game. Rather than the action-oriented Monster Hunter cash-in we assumed it would be, Sorcery Blade is a "real" turn-based RPG. Either that or the monsters are just very polite.There's no word on an international release for this game, but there's so little risk to a downloadable game that we think it's worth publisher Kemco's time. We'd definitely be up for a low-commitment RPG.[Via Inside-Games]
