PlayStation Blog sits down with the producer of Rain, Noriko Umemura who gives players some insight into what's shaping up to be 2013's most intriguing PSN release.
Sony Japan's haunting adventure combines early survival horror with PlayStation 2 classic Ico, to promising effect
By Keith Stuart
Everyone will think of Ico. As the hero of Rain trudges through the bleak shadowy city, his shoulders hunched against the cold and the night; and as the girl he is searching for is glimpsed at a balcony, scared and alone – memories of Fumito Ueda's beautiful PlayStation 2 adventure will flood back. Not that this promising downloadable title from Sony Japan's C.A.M.P studio is a mere copycat. It's just that it captures Ico's sense of constant vulnerability – and it has at its centre a relationship between a boy and a girl, thrust together in an unforgiving world.
Official PlayStation Magazine: ''Here’s Rain producer Noriko Umemura to talk to PlayStation Access about PS3 exclusive, Rain. It’s a weirdly creative little stealth puzzler about a ghost bot that only shows up in the rain.''
The screen tearing is killing me. I hope they get that sorted before they launch the game.
Looks interesting though.
The Last Guardian may still be AWOL, but there's another game from Sony's Japan Studio that takes on Team Ico's spirit.
By Martin Robinson
Of all Sony's philanthropic ideals - the all-inclusive approach to indie developers, the generosity of PlayStation Plus and the free packet of French fancies that's likely to be bundled with every PS4 console - there's one that remains unsung. PlayStation C.A.M.P. - that's Creator Audition Mash-up Project, by the way - is a little department within Japan Studio that's responsible for some of Sony's oddest games.
The premise is simple, if a little hard to believe. PlayStation C.A.M.P. is an open-armed initiative that lets anyone with an idea pitch a game to Sony, and if they're successful, to see it through to completion with the assistance of established development talent. It has brought us Trash Panic (something of an unsung wonder itself), sparked off the project that became Echochrome, and recently had its highest profile hit with To...
Good preview, I especially like their write-up regarding C.A.M.P.
Didn't even know those guys were responsible for such great hits.
Sony is where you get such exceptional experiences.
Proud to be PS gamer for 18 years.
Loved it the moment Sony Japan first showed this and Puppeteer awhile back. Will heavily support both.