{"id":345,"date":"2012-09-11T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2012-08-16T14:08:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T14:08:46","slug":"onm-remembered-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered – #29"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Pull the other one”<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nfrom N64 Pro issue 6 (April 1998)<\/p>\n

One of many early previews of Jest<\/em>, a game that after a mild amount of coverage and hype, was quietly axed and never saw a release. Looking through the old mags, I’m a little startled at how many times it shows up – it’s not plaguing every single issue, but it shows up enough for the same old screenshots and info that get trod out every time to wear on your patience a little. You get really sick of that low angle shot on the first page.<\/p>\n

If we get sentimental, it’s kind of sad looking at games like this. The preview text does its best to make the game sound appealing, but the game, frankly, looked a bit bleh. The attempt at emulating the look of a French comic book is a really cool idea, but the technology was waaay<\/em> before you could look at it and immediately realise, “oh, that’s<\/em> what they were going for!” I dig low-poly stuff, but you’d be hard-pressed to mimic a certain art style when everything looks like a jumble.
\nPreviews of the game showed up time and time again, but I don’t think I ever read any of them; they barely made any mention of what the game itself<\/strong> was like. If it were released, it’s the sort of thing that’d probably become totally forgotten once the review period was over. Never getting a release is probably the best thing that happened to it; that way it’ll always be mildly appealing to those in the unreleased games niche.<\/p>\n

God, isn’t this depressing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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