Friday, January 08, 2010

Calling all graphics whores: Vanillaware seems to be working on a new game

If you're a lover of gorgeous graphics (especially of the 2D variety), you've also got to be a lover of Vanillaware--the Japanese development studio responsible for such sexy games as Princess Crown, Odin Sphere and Muramasa: The Demon Blade.

All of the above should be happy to hear that the folks at Vanillaware seem to be working on a new game. They haven't announced anything as of yet, but all signs point to that happening sooner rather than later.

For instance, Atlus (Odin Sphere's publisher) recently filed a trademark for Gungnir--the name of Odin's spear. Also, Vanillaware founder and president George Kamitani recently posted a painting of “The Three Graces” (Greek goddesses of beauty, charm and creativity) on his company’s website.



Considering Vanillaware tackled Norse mythology in Odin's Sphere (Odin is the chief god in Norse paganism), it doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to suggest the studio may be returning to that topic--and/or Greek mythology--in its next release (or two).

See also: "And the 'Best Box Art of the Year' award goes to..." and "New Super Mario Bros. Wii: One of my favorite Wii games of 2009"

5 comments:

Viewtiful_Justin said...

Wow. NSFW much? :-P

Bryan Ochalla said...

Oh, sorry about that! Maybe I should replace the image with one that doesn't show any naughty bits...

Bryan Ochalla said...

BTW, thanks to tinycartridge.com for the cropped version of the painting :)

Melody (Lizzi) said...

Oh Vanillaware games are always so great!
I loved Muramasa and Odin Sphere.
I'm not sure if GrimGrimoire was also a Vanillaware-game...

Bryan Ochalla said...

I've never played Odin Sphere, Melody, but I loved Muramasa! And GrimGrimoire *IS* a Vanillaware game! I haven't played that one yet either. Sigh.

BTW, you should play Princess Crown (Saturn) sometime if you're a big Odin Sphere game. I've only played it a bit, but it's beautiful and seems to be very similar to Odin Sphere!