{"id":1001,"date":"2017-01-19T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2017-01-02T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T18:02:32","slug":"onm-remembered-455","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered – #455"},"content":{"rendered":"

“So, should you buy it? You’ll love it if you like Posh Spice videos – mainly the futuristic one. This has about the same amount of gameplay.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nfrom Official Nintendo Magazine issue 132 (September 2003)<\/p>\n

The first of Shinji Mikami’s Capcom Five, P.N.03<\/i> didn’t exactly set the world on fire. It’s not a good sign when even with nearly twenty screenshots set in front of you, you can barely tell the difference between them. To the game’s credit, it’s not all white corridors – there’s one level set in a dusty brown canyon. And some corridors are slightly off-white!<\/p>\n

Watching footage of the game I can see a whole bunch of Mikami’s traits all over it – the strong female protagonist ala Jill Valentine, the purely mechanic-driven gameplay of God Hand<\/i>, the endless corridor-trekking of Killer7<\/i>… but judging purely from a video playthrough, it doesn’t seem to gel all that well. It’s got a huge emphasis on “style”, but that style had nowhere near the panache of Viewtiful Joe<\/i> or Killer7<\/i> (not to mention other games did the “looking like the inside of an iPod” aesthetic better)<\/span>. It’s aiming for simplistic arcade-style mechanics, but it clearly just left a lot of people thinking, “is that all?”<\/i> One interesting intention by the developers was making a game that’s fun to play and fun to watch, and while I can’t vouch for how fun it is to play, I began fast-forwarding and skipping through the longplay after five minutes, so…<\/i><\/p>\n

I want to argue it’s a game that might’ve survived better on downloadable platforms rather than a full-priced disc game, though it’s also not a concept really worth reviving, y’know? Ah well. We all have our flops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“So, should you buy it? You’ll love it if you like Posh Spice videos – mainly the futuristic one. This has about the same amount of gameplay.” from Official Nintendo Magazine issue 132 (September 2003)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[37,6],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onm-remembered","tag-onm","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}