Five minutes of Again (English introduction). The clip’s first half is all dialogue, so skip to 2:25 if you just want to see the 3D investigation sections. The FBI mystery story has potential, though — stick through it for a taste of what Cing, the same developer behind Hotel Dusk and Another Code, is working on now.

I know some gamers are disappointed that this lacks Hotel Dusk’s “Take on Me”-esque visuals, but I really like the animation on the digitized actors, even if they’re re-used. I could totally eat potato chips to this.

See also: Again TGS Trailer

Preorder: Again: FBI Chou-Shinri Shousakan

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tags / again / tecmo / cing / ec

Again Japanese commercial. The Law & Order-esque humorless tone juxtaposed with the potato chip gobbling cracks me up more than it should. The dubbing gave me a smile, too. I didn’t expect that from an Again promo.

Oh, Cing, will you ever produce a game that isn’t interesting? Other than the developer’s mobile titles and maybe Monster Rancher DS, everything the company’s touched seems worth investigating — Hotel Dusk, Another Code, Little King’s Story, and now this murder mystery. There must be some Love-de-Lic blood in that studio.

See also: Again TGS Trailer

Preorder: Again: FBI Chou-Shinri Shousakan

tags / cing / tecmo / again / commercial / imports / ec

Again (previously Again: Eye of Providence) TGS Trailer.

This game has been M.I.A. since it first debuted at last year’s Tokyo Game Show, but it reappeared with a new video! Though it features digitized actors instead of “Take On Me”-style characters, this is probably as close as you’ll get to a Hotel Dusk successor, seeing as it’s developed by the same studio (Cing).

From GameSpot’s hands-on preview:

“Again focuses on a main character named Jonathan Weaver (or J as he apparently likes to be called) whose parents were murdered 19 years ago as a part of several crimes that all happened back to back and had similar characteristics.

Now a detective, J gets assigned to a series of cases that are also similar to the crimes that happened 19 years ago and the key thing about these crime scenes is that the symbol of the Eye of Providence (as seen on the one-dollar bill) can be found at all of them.”

While investigating current crime scenes on one of the DS’s screens, you’ll also see the same area from 19 years ago in the other — finding the differences between the two will trigger flashbacks and help unearth clues. It reminds me a lot of Nanashi no Game Me’s similar dual view mechanic.

This is scheduled to hit in Japan in early 2010, so we likely won’t have to wait another year to hear more!

tags / tgs 2009 / again / tokyo game show / tecmo / cing / ec