Author Topic: Fat Princess (Read 1766 times)

Kestastrophe · « **on:** July 29, 2009, 12:00:39 PM »

$15 Released Tomorrow on PSN

Anyone buying?

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Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #1 on:** July 29, 2009, 12:43:11 PM »

I'm all over this like a fat kid loves cake.

Rman · « **Reply #2 on:** July 29, 2009, 01:12:50 PM »

Jesus, so much download titles. I can't keep track of this.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #3 on:** July 29, 2009, 01:35:39 PM »

Looks hella fun but I won't be getting it anytime soon. I'm already swamped in games and Madden is right around the corner.

tiesto · « **Reply #4 on:** July 29, 2009, 01:50:33 PM »

Will this have a demo? I'm curious but hesitant to try w/o one...

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #5 on:** July 29, 2009, 03:13:24 PM »

Quote from: tiesto on July 29, 2009, 01:50:33 PM

Will this have a demo? I'm curious but hesitant to try w/o one...

same here. It looks cool, but I've been fooled before. It doesn't help that the game is $15 instead of $10, as it looks much more like a $10 game to me.

cool breeze · « **Reply #6 on:** July 29, 2009, 03:52:19 PM »

Just based on my time with the beta and not knowing any improvements since then, I'll probably hold off on getting this right away. Biggest problem is probably the biggest solution with time, and that was the terrible lag and glitchy online play. I'm sure others can get into it but it just didn't seem like it would hold my attention. Anyone know what the single player is? is it Zelda or Ys like, or just skirmish with bots? that might make convince me to get it (if it's zelda/ys like)

and anyone play Shatter? people have been saying good things about it, but I don't know if that's sincere or the usual hyperbole surrounding a downloadable game.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 29, 2009, 08:29:00 PM »

3 months too late sadly

rubber feathers · « **Reply #8 on:** July 29, 2009, 08:32:40 PM »

The Fat Princess beta imo was completely boring, it didn't help it had lag and hit detection issues out the wazoo.

Quote from: swaggaz on July 29, 2009, 03:52:19 PM

and anyone play Shatter? people have been saying good things about it, but I don't know if that's sincere or the usual hyperbole surrounding a downloadable game.

It's a good game, but it's not "omg downloadable GOTF, completely revolutionary!" I've only played the first two "worlds" though (out of nine total). It's definitely not as overhyped as, say, Ragdoll Kung Fu, though. For $7.99 you can't really go wrong with it.

cool breeze · « **Reply #9 on:** July 29, 2009, 11:36:36 PM »

yeah, for some reason the $8 price point made it more appealing. It's $2 less than most downloadable games, which is not a lot, but it's compelling because they chose such a random number.

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #10 on:** August 02, 2009, 02:02:39 PM »

Did anyone end up buying this? Post impressions

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #11 on:** August 02, 2009, 03:06:32 PM »

I bought it.

My initial thoughts were that the game needed a freaking tutorial rather than the 16 page instructions in the option menu but after the first game or so I got a handle on what I needed to do. Now several games later I kinda wish the game was a little more deep than it is - like being able to destroy enemy buildings and additional upgrades like different siege weapons. Overall though, I'm liking it. The presentation is top notch and the online community seems pretty lively for the PS3 (at least for now). I think it might be priced about 5 dollars too high and it'll get a little boring after awhile, but what can you do. I reccommend it.

Powerslave · « **Reply #12 on:** August 02, 2009, 03:15:51 PM »

How fat?

FatalT · « **Reply #13 on:** August 02, 2009, 03:24:09 PM »

I bought it too. I finished the single player campaign but I haven't been able to connect to an online game yet.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #14 on:** August 02, 2009, 03:34:30 PM »

I bought it on Friday, but haven't had any time to play it. The end credits are brilliant, though.

cool breeze · « **Reply #15 on:** August 02, 2009, 03:59:48 PM »

Quote from: FatalT on August 02, 2009, 03:24:09 PM

I bought it too. I finished the single player campaign but I haven't been able to connect to an online game yet.

what is single player like?

FatalT · « **Reply #16 on:** August 02, 2009, 04:01:20 PM »

Quote from: swaggaz on August 02, 2009, 03:59:48 PM

Quote from: FatalT on August 02, 2009, 03:24:09 PM
I bought it too. I finished the single player campaign but I haven't been able to connect to an online game yet.

what is single player like?

It's like multiplayer except with bots...lol

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #17 on:** August 02, 2009, 04:47:37 PM »

Quote from: distantmantra on August 02, 2009, 03:34:30 PM

I bought it on Friday, but haven't had any time to play it. The end credits are brilliant, though.

Yeah I wasn't expecting that.

But Jesus, did you see how many people were involved in making this game? Baby Got Back played all the way through 3 times and was starting on the fourth by the time it was all over with. It was like a freaking small army behind Fat Princess.

ch1nchilla · « **Reply #18 on:** August 02, 2009, 05:26:34 PM »

So is it worth buying or what?

pilonv1 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 02, 2009, 08:16:29 PM »

its $23.95 here. not wasting my money on it without a demo

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #20 on:** August 03, 2009, 05:33:22 AM »

Ran through single player and played a couple online games. This would be a lot of fun if they could fix the broken netcode and find some way to solve the ice mage spammers.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 03, 2009, 09:22:01 PM »

Eurogamer review wasn't too glowing, only 6/10

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #22 on:** August 03, 2009, 09:36:04 PM »

Eurogamer hates lots of good games, but they're pretty spot on with this one. FP is a game that could be a lot of fun that is hampered by lots of flaws.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #23 on:** August 03, 2009, 11:37:31 PM »

I was pretty pumped for this when I first saw videos for it, but if it has online issues then it's instantly useless. Fuck this game.

cool breeze · « **Reply #24 on:** August 04, 2009, 01:12:16 AM »

problem with online games is that even if I hold off on this and wait for a sale in the future (they happen every once in a while), the community wouldn't be as strong as it is now. then again, more people would probably pick it up when it's cheaper. no real single player past skirmish and experience in the beta are enough to make me pass on it for now.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #25 on:** November 19, 2009, 11:27:21 AM »

wut.

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Fat Princess, a charmingly bloody multiplayer PS3 “capture the princess” game, was set to be belatedly released in Japan as “Pocchari Princess,” but that release has been cancelled and delayed indefinitely – allegedly due to complaints over the fact that characters depicted only have four fingers.

Some explanation is in order – the issue derives from claims of discrimination by the hypersensitive descendents of Japan’s “burakumin” caste. In the Edo period, these were families forced to live as “untouchables” in special villages and ghettos as they worked in professions, such as tanning or undertaking, considered “unclean” in Shinto.

Such peoples were subjected to heavy legal and social discrimination, and although the caste was abolished in 1871 as part of the Meiji reforms, the discrimination lingers on to this day, with some people, predominantly in the Kansai region, still attempting to ensure their families do not marry the descendents of the burakumin by way of clandestine and illegal ancestry checks.

The burakumin reaction against this has seen the issue given virtual taboo status, along the same lines as racism in the west. The same reaction has also seen plenty of “anti-discriminatory” complaints and legal activity on their part, and it is here that the matter intersects with Fat Princess of all things.

“Yotsu,” “four,” is supposedly used by some blighted individuals as a discriminatory term for burakumin, and this has led to excessively sensitive burakumin activists attacking what they consider discriminatory usage of the number “four” – a variety of anime and manga have been forced to redraw characters to have five fingers based on such complaints.

Most Japanese likely have no idea this “taboo” even exists, and it is magnificently obvious that developers Titan Studios, situated in the USA, could never have intended this as an attack on burakumin.

Still, the demands of political correctness being what they are, the game has had its imminent November release indefinitely delayed whilst replacement art is secured.

bork · « **Reply #26 on:** November 19, 2009, 02:44:52 PM »

I've seen C.C. Lemon ads with the Simpsons in Japan. I don't recall them having five fingers. And how about all the Disney characters?

Weirdness.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #27 on:** November 19, 2009, 02:49:50 PM »

I read this earlier today and all I could do was scratch my head.

demi · « **Reply #28 on:** November 19, 2009, 04:10:41 PM »

Quote from: a slime appears on November 19, 2009, 04:08:27 PM

Hilariously stupid.

Speaking of which I downloaded the demo recently. It's not much fun playing single-player. I'll give the multi a shot this weekend.

This game sucks. Why would you even bring the notion that it's remotely good by playing a certain way. PS3 has no games. You won't find one.

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