Project Sylpheed

Microsoft released this english trailer of Project Sylpheed, and it's a quite good one at that. The demo is available on the Marketplace since a few days, and should help you guys get a better idea of what this game is all about.

Microsoft today announced that two games will light up this Xbox 360 summer - Project Sylpheed and Vampire's Rain. Both of them will be released in the US, and we can just hope that they'll be released in summer for us in Europe too. Inside you'll find images from the US version of Project Sylpheed.

Found on a japanese upload site, here is a video that pleases my lazy self since it shows almost exactly what I had planned to show in the second part of my Project Sylpheed video. Many thanks to the unknown author of this off-screen video. More seriously, I'm almost at the 4th mission of the game and despite some framerate flaws this is now one of my favorite Xbox 360 titles so far. Let's hope a localized version will be released outside Japan soon!

First (and last?) game published by Square Enix to be Xbox 360 exclusive, Project Sylpheed is a space 3d shooter that will without a doubt remind quite a few of the excellent Wing Commander series. Lots of excellent looking cutscenes, story driven fights and lots of chatter, the list of similarities is long. But I'm certainly not complaining! The gameplay is quite good, after the first few minutes where everything is quite confusing everything clicks and the flight controls and weapons feel natural. I'll keep playing and will do a second part video with more details, at least if I manage to unlock the next levels as the game is quite hard, even in normal difficulty. You all know how a gamer I can be ;)
You'll certainly notice that the 720p version is a 495 MB monster. It took more than 2 hours to encode it and I didn't feel like restarting again after cutting some parts of the video. So go wild!

Project Sylpheed, developed by Game Arts and published by Square-Enix, was also waiting us on the MS booth. Honestly, as I haven't played the game myself yet, I can't tell you if it's as messy to play as it is to watch. But for what it's worth, the guy playing seemed to have a good time, and I may have recognized a Panzer Dragoon Orta-inspired lock system. Good news ?

Square-Enix updated (for the last time?) the Project Sylpheed official site. Nothing much was really interesting, but I think these 6 images are new. The game will be released in 2 weeks and we still have to see more than short 2-3 seconds gameplay sequences. I'm not sure this is a good sign.

Square-Enix updated the official Project Sylpheed page with two new characters: May and Sandra. The game will be released in less than one month in Japan, and we still have to see more than a few split seconds of gameplay, this is getting worrying.
Update: Just in time to prove my point, Microsoft put online this brand new trailer of the game, showing about 3 minutes of quite nice CG footage and juste a few seconds of gameplay.
Update 2: Added a slightly better looking version of the video.

Square-Enix once again update the official Project Sylpheed page with this time some new images showing the customization options for the ship.

Square Enix has updated the official Project Sylpheed page with new images and infos. In this update we get 6 ships, 2 new characters and a few images from two concurrent factions.

Square-Enix released these images of Project Sylpheed, looking as good as ever. Kind of giving some Lylat Wars-vibes, again.