Heavenly Sword Is “Half-Assed” According To Itagaki
By William on Saturday, August 4th, 2007 at 10:08 AM PST In Games Industry
I wouldn’t go as far as saying Heavenly Sword was “half-assed” like Itagaki, but it definitely could have used some improvements. The lead programmer for Tecmo has been highly outspoken against Heavenly Sword in the past couple of months. He refers to button-timing sequences with little payout as one of the main problems. I have to agree with him there, but Heavenly Sword isn’t a terrible game. I do feel like it could have been a little better though.
Itagaki is at it again. Itagaki Tomonobu who is the lead graphics programmer of Tecmo, refers to Heavenly sword as half assed in the latest EGM magazine in which there’s a Heavenly Sword preview and a little article.
Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itakagi goes on the record as an outspoken critic of Sword’s Hero Sequences.
“I’ve never played a good game where the developers put a big icon of the button you’re supposed to press onscreen,†Itagaki says. “I look at Heavenly Sword and it seems really half-assed, because it’s asking you to do all these button-timing sequences but you are not getting much payoff from it.â€Via Gamers-Creed
no, half ass is re doing an old xbox game instead of something new, shove it Itagaki, im returning ninja gaiden sigma today because of that, heavenly sword at least pushes the envelope in terms of game play, and facial animations, you dont like cinematic on screen button prompts? i think millions of god of war fans would disagree with you there, how about you make a new game and get off your high horse, sigma is boring as shit with a shit story, you cant say that about heavenly sword.
pay off? what the hell is this guy talking about, is he expecting money? pizza? what? let me tell you something, when you take a last gen game and up the graphics for this gen, thats half ass, creating a brand new IP with groundbreaking facial animations and intense cinematic gameplay with the help of andy sekris(gollum) now that has got to be the furthest thing from half ass i can think of, just for that Itagaki, im returning my copy of sigma, i dont like it anyway, it does nothing new and plus this way i’m taking a sale away from him, as a used game is cheaper than a new one, edit this if you want but:
wow he makes it sound like the whole game is that way. he should really think about what he says. if anything is “half-assed” its the remake of Ninja Gaiden since its a last-gen game
Sweet! Now I can get a used copy or two of Ninja Gaiden Sigma!
Oh, wait. No I can’t. You kids won’t actually return it over this. Also, he won’t read this so stop typing as if he will.
I have to agree with him though. Since he is Tecmo’s King Pervert, any game in which the female Viagragonist is half-naked instead of 91% naked is half-assed. Debate over.
Just for what he said I will never get anything from Tecmo ever. I bet he is just trying to make people not buy Heavenly Sword so they will buy Sigma instead. At least Ninja Theory is making a new, cinematic game. You just port over a game and give it better graphics for a quick buck.
And besides all the gaming sites love this game. Just check out their E3 2007 Heavenly Sword impressions.
Yes Half Assed, half assed because you yourself couldn’t possibly of made something like this, I mean come on Itagaki what have you revolutionized? Breast Physics? Come on man every other gamins site on the planet loves this game and can’t wait to play more of it. Half assed my Ass. Oh and steve its not about whether or not he’s going to read it or anyone cares its about the principle, its about getting a really good rant in.
You did just raise a possible point Jeff, “E3″ and “impressions”. Two might go together nicely, but I’m sure there are a whole host of games that will have been seen in E3, ‘looked’ good, but may not actually turn out to be so. Not saying this is going this way (though, this won’t sell me a console) but you can’t/won’t know until the game is out.
He’s only pissed cause sigma sales suck…
Itagaki didn’t make Sigma
This guy has the right to talk, he made Ninja Gaiden didn’t he?
@Kritcal_Strike , maybe you should sober up before posting