Impressive PS4 Exclusive Action RPG Reborn Debuted, Kickstarted

At Tokyo Game Show last month, I got an early peek at Elemental Labs' Reborn, an action RPG with a sci-fi twist that they're aiming to put on both PS3 and PS4 next year. New publisher acttil hosted an event where Elemental Labs' Franz Tissera, CEO, showed off his last year of work on Reborn and announced a Kickstarter campaign.

Reborn is an interesting mix of old and new, folklore and sci-fi. It pulls from the history of Japanese swordsman Musahi Miyamoto and works the famed tale into a bit of a futuristic retelling. They've set this story in Neo-Tokyo, a world where huge corporations rule, and body augmentation is a regular thing.

[xKugo]

The concept art for this game is absolutely gorgeous. Definitely impressed by what I've seen so far

[abzdine]

not even PS2 had this many quality games announced before it released!
amazing

[Army_of_Darkness]

Since the ps4 is much easier to develop for, I'm sure we are gonna see shitloads of exclusive titles coming from japan Unlike this gen:-D

[Section8]

To be fair though, there isn't a lot of exclusives at launch yet either.

[Magicite]

Oh boy, if PS4 reaches at least 80% of PS2's success, then it will be amazing.
I knew that Sony wont fail, new exclusives will be coming one by one non-stop, they dont want to announce everything at start, so the hype grows steadily.

[EXVirtual]

@Armyofdarkness, exactly. That's what excites me most about this gen.

[UltimateMaster]

Really Impressive.
If they can make this happen on the PS4, then it's truly next-gen.

[Enemy]

This is some seriously incredible art direction holy god!

[egidem]

The exclusives just keep on coming! ...and I thought I would conclude this gen with enough for next gen's games and exclusives.

Clearly I was a FOOL.

[creepjack]

The PS2 had a horrid launch lineup. seriously, it did. Almost any console had a better launch line up then it.

[pkb79]

speaking of ps2 i want a new Onimusha game.

[KwietStorm]

Well PS2 had a pretty boring launch lineup. I think the best thing about the indie explosion is it's bringing creativity, diversity, and "risks" back to the mainstream market.

[Ame_No_Shiryuu]

anybody knows when the kickstarter funding begin..?, i couldn't find any info yet...

[Neixus]

Indeed, look at hands of the monster, he's holding a person. Huge badass bosses confirmed?

[specialguest]

Definitely love the concept art. It looks like a cyber samurai punkish world with a blade runner city look.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

This game looks beautiful holy crap lol.

[AlphaJunk]

did the image of the polygonal character display the boss would be increased to over 20k Tris? Is that for for ps3 or PS4?

[ThatCanadianGuy514]

game after game after game

[Godmars290]

Though this one is coming through Kickstarter which means its coming in low quality. That it would be better if it was coming in with Sony's support and likely more polish.

[Ame_No_Shiryuu]

do you know when will the kickstarter funding begin..?, i couldn't find any info yet...

[Hicken]

How does it being Kickstarter-related directly impact its quality? I'm sorry, but I don't see the positive correlation.

[Godmars290]

@Hicken:
At the very least, it being an independent production that relying on outside funds beings its level of quality into question.

[DOMination-]

Has there ever been a good (big budget) kickstarter game?

[Godmars290]

@DOMination:
Kind of my point: all of this is early production with a kickstarter which which hasn't even started or announced its goal. We've just heard about high targets for what they hope to do.

[KwietStorm]

So that automatically means low quality now? How ignorant is that?

[jmc8888]

Star Citizen says hi and disagrees.

In fact, it's the opposite.

[Godmars290]

@KwietStorm:
I said nothing like that. This whole thing, on the fan side, is just another case of overly high expectations however.

@jmc8888:
Yes. This dev team has as much if not more general recognition as the Wing Commander people. Its exactly the same situation...

[MultiConsoleGamer]

Impressive, most impressive.

[WeAreLegion]

No talking!

[Neixus]

I like their adaptive a.i.
''the game's social perception system, which has the game changing based on how you approach it. Careful players might have an easier time in the world, where as your guns-a-blazin' player could have, for example, NPCs reacting in a more hostile manner''

Lol at the fact that microsoft says only the clouds can make an a.i improvise.

But damn, sci-fi ninjas? this sounds like a game for me =D

[showtimefolks]

MS says a lot of things just ignore them since they won't reliever half of them anyway. It's MS slogan we will over promise and under deliver

[RVanner_]

Looks interesting

[nick309]

Ill wait for gameplay rather than be impressed and hyped for concept art.

[andibandit]

I did some further research and found its a kickstarter game being developed from the CEO`s garage. Not really getting my hopes up.

[aawells07]

Thats kinda what i was thinking rather than act fake and pretend its the most amazing ive ever seen. Concept art for all games "looks" cool but the final product is a different story.

[Bathyj]

Is it just me or does PS4 seem to be getting a lot of 3rd party exclusives?

[ShinnokDrako]

Yes it seems so. I keep seeing news about PS3/PS4/PSVita lately, from platform to RPG/JRPG and so on. Good thing, we're going to get many games to choose from (and many genres).

P.S. It's funny that you got disagrees when there are lot of articles that prove it. I guess if there was a "Sony and PS4 are shit and i hate them" next to Agree/Disagree/etc, you'd have those clicks on that. The Xbox fanboys are always so funny ;)

[QuickdrawMcgraw]

That's what happens here on N4Xbox.

[chrissx]

Keep em coming sony. Ps4 era is gonna be insane

[MasterCornholio]

Wow reminds me of warframe with the whole cyber ninja theme.

Looks very nice.

Nexus 7 2013

[TheKayle1]

20k triangles for each character is impressive?!

ryse is 85k for each one and was called downgrade LOL

the artist sketch are good done..but this dosnt mean nothing

[bobtheimpaler]

ROFL. This guy is hilarious. He is so insecure about the Xbox one that he has to compare this game that has a kick starter budget of 150,000 to ryse.

[Bathyj]

The reason lots of people don't care about Ryse has nothing to do with the number of triangles it has.

[MrSwankSinatra]

instead of calling it ryse how about they call it X-Y-A-B. since that's what you'll be doing through the whole game. pressing the same four buttons.

[LoveOfTheGame]

Not trying to be a dick, but don't almost all action games focus on the four main input buttons.

What's next we call GOW X-Square-O-triangle. smh

[FlameHawk]

@LoveOfTheGame, lol no, I remember playing God of War 3 and I was using all the buttons to attack including R1,R2,L1,L2, it had so much variety because of the god powers kratos stole.
But Ryse on the other hand, LOL press B to win.

[LoveOfTheGame]

^^^
That doesn't stop the game from being primarily X jump, Square hit, Triangle power attack, and O grab. You use those buttons the most with really, I believe, R2 as power and L2 as item.

Those four buttons are not the only used buttons and neither is it for Ryse. If your real qualm is with the QTE, then make fun of that, even though they are not mandatory and you can kill enemies without them just like GOW.

[wenaldy]

Oh shit, this dude again. Go back to Neogaf and get yourself banned for good.

[windblowsagain]

TheKayle1

Ryse does not have 85k triangles for each character.

It has that for the main character.

[pyramidshead]

lol dat kayle opinion.

[SoulSercher620]

Ryse is a boring QTE game while this actually looks good. Keep hatin.

[aawells07]

Have you played either of these games? Link to gameplay on Reborn?

[Magicite]

So now we are measuring fun by triangles?

[Bowzabub]

It also has 85,000 X button prompts....

[ziggurcat]

85k for just the main character, not the NPCs....

[T2]

yay for Ryse or I could just buy the new dynasty warriors LOL , not to be a dick, but its not a groundbreaking new concept for a game... looks fun but seriously some people think every new game is the second coming of jesus.

[BallsEye]

@ziggurcat

Wrong, 85k for all characters including NPC's. It was showed in slides and talked about plenty of times.

[ziggurcat]

No, it's only for the main character.

[MysticStrummer]

Main character.

That's why it was so funny to see people comparing Ryse's main character polygons to Killzone's NPC polygons.

[AlphaJunk]

I noticed that too, Kayle1. I thought maybe this was for the PS3

[DigitalRaptor]

I've seen you with your trolling on Neogaf, Kayle.

Get out of here.

[kenshiro100]

What does Ryse have to do with this? I smell insecurity.

[twinspectre]

where's the kickstarter link ?? :(

[matrixman92]

on their twitter they said they want to get everything together first and then start the kickstarter next week. This might be the first thing ive ever helped fund. Although im worried and wondering why this game only needs 150,000 to be made. That is almost nothing if you have a full team working on it; which it looks like they have.

[clearelite]

Good point, but hopefully they were just excited to get started and that was the minimum they needed with their lower overhead.
Knowing perfectly well that it might reach $1,000,000 or more if word got out, they will possibly offer more and more awesomeness as the pledge thresholds keep rising.

[andibandit]

Because its not a full team

[WeAreLegion]

Lemme Kickstart this!

[victorMaje]

Um...Wow

[kewlkat007]

Looks kewl..

[XtraTrstrL]

Sounds pretty awesome so far.