The fact that my home city is so famous for CCTV use that both Ubisoft referenced it when starting a series besides the current installment and Freedom Wars (remember that first trailer?) makes me think the setting is overdue... I just can't get over how characters avoid trouble by just throwing on a mask, at least Agent 47 plays full dress up (well not always head to toe) and scouts cameras more. I know that modern London or London in this way where it would definitely have more cameras makes it impractical to make fun but it doesn't seem like the setting matters as much as I'd hope. It could be interesting to have to avoid areas more and avoid public (at least obvious face to face in the same clothes) association with people to prevent a killed ally leading to you and some mates getting arrested or killed as a result. What I'm asking for probably doesn't work with the scope of infinite characters but they didn't need infinite of them when they could have a tight party of potential people that is over 10 but under 100. Thoughts on the series in general, I never even played any of the games but both prior games did interest me a bit. The permadeath system is actually very similar to ZombiU (also in London!) and it isn't odd for Ubisoft games to share DNA though this wasn't a quick turnaround by any means. I have the inverse problem with Limited Run, I already bought the game digitally or planned to potentially double dip but am too late for the Limited release to get what I'd want. You are actually underselling the Mana stuff a bit since there are more languages than just English for the 3rd game which finally got officially translated (French, Spanish and German). It can't have been easy even if we probably won't use those any time soon. That Contra game... I was a tester for it and I assume I can speak on some basics if you'd like any info. It doesn't have the DMC/Sonic/Megaman is back factor that 5, Mania and 11 had but it could be serviceable for some time though it will depend on whether friends stick around. Glad it wasn't cancelled at least and Konami wowed me with the classic console stuff even if I haven't jumped on the craze yet... How often is Rondo of Blood going to get released in a short time span? Don't delete that demo of Daemon X Machina, you won't be able to download it again to check how the game improved against the beta.
Oh cool that you've been testing that Contra game. From the looks of it, I was thinking that it might be something like Commando: Wolf of the Battlefield 3 on XBLA where it's just a serviceable game. About Mana, I just heard that hackers have extracted the Trials of Mana rom from the collection and got it running on real hardware, so that's pretty wild and effective work.
That cartoony Greek game from UbiSoft reminds me of The Battle of Olympus, which was a pleasant surprise when I was a kid. Maybe it’ll be good. Square and Nintendo did a great job this E3, and gave me some things to look forward to. A PC Engine mini is a great idea, I just hope they don’t screw it up with a lackluster library, or crappy pricing.
