News: New Valis game

July 14, 2006, 02:48 PM

by brandon, via Telnet Japan -
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Browsing Telnet Japan's site today (they of Valis and Cosmic Fantasy fame, among numerous other PC Engine and PC/Marty games), I found this. It appears to be a mobile phone conversion and update of the original Valis: The Fantasm Soldier, with quite decent looking graphics. They also introduced a costume system for the heroine. Shame they didn't bring it to GBA instead, but one never knows. The game was released on Vodafone Live! in may of last year.

Incidentally, it's quite sad to see a company go from making this many games in 1992 for PC Engine alone, many of which were quite good, to four PS2 games in nearly the full life of the console. Check out Telnet Japan's game library here. They're one step away from joining D3, like so many other excellent companies of the 16 bit era have. Those companies that could survive the transition to a 3D-dominated world in the first place, that is!

Although - christian nutt reminded me that Wolf Team split off from Telnet in the mid-90s, so that's probably what crippled them. Them's the breaks, I guess...