White Knight Chronicles 2 - new gameplay trailers show off online Knight gameplay

[darksora]

Having just completed the story for WKC1 last week I am hyped to the max for the sequel. Had a break from it with all the games coming out over the past 2-3 months but I am addicted to the online again.

Anyways, I downloaded these trailers from the Japanese PS store and they've made some really cool changes and I think this may be the first gameplay vids of online transformations. The variety of what you can create is awesome too.

[video=youtube;X7EXHPOr-7w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7EXHPOr-7w[/video]


in-depth gameplay trailer:

[video=youtube;4knKmXH8uOU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4knKmXH8uOU[/video]

Details from trailers (most of which has already been announced in articles etc:
-Faster battles : turn wait time has been decreased dramatically.
-Charge skills: some skills require tapping circle, possibly for extra damage or accuracy?
-New magic: I am a magic caster on WKC so seeing the new spells is great
-Weapon switch: Switch the sheild arm to a dual weilding style mid battle
-6 player co-op: Makes a huge difference
-Greater range of armour
-new enemy types
-Online Knights: customise fully
-[knight]Leonard , [knight]Ceaser and mystery female knight are bosses in an online quest
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Also quite surprised they've improved on the graphics too, from a quick glance it looked the same but after watching the trailers you can spot the improvements in the faces. Especially on Yulie at 1:36 in the opening vid below. They dont look like they've been made from the custom character tools now, lol.

[video=youtube;FErwkf6pNpg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FErwkf6pNpg[/video]

its a shame it will be coming out around march 2011, really wish they were a big enough company to support an earlier release for the west.

So anyone else hyped or is it just me? lol.
I know quite a few people didnt like the first.

Also, spoiler warning for first game:

Spoiler

Didnt expect kara to die Cannot wait to kill that idiot! lol

 

[mickice]

Is WKC 1 still being packaged with no2? Because thats why i'm buying it.

 

[darksora]

yes it is. It'll have all the updates of the second game too so it should be a better experience then the original game

Most players who follow on from wkc1 will already be at level 50 when they start the second game so its a good thing they've included the first game. The story itself can be finished in 30 hours but the online takes up alot of the time. I've clocked in 50 hours so far (perhaps 20-30 hours of it are online) and I still feel like a newbie online.

Its kind of a long grind leveling up your guild rank to unlock more quests but its fun when you have a full party. also new game+ offers new equipment so thats another incentive to keep playing too.

Definately my favourite rpg this gen (although this may be biased due to hype level atm lol).

 

[IceKnight]

thnx for that,
this game is good(the first), and i cant wait to get the second.
and i think that a lot of people are missing out bcuz they care too much about graphics

 

[YaTwice]

stupid me for clicking the spoiler button before reading the warning lmao... Cannot wait for wkc 2 thx for the vids here's some rep

 

[darksora]

[QUOTE="IceKnight, post: 5063879]thnx for that,
this game is good(the first), and i cant wait to get the second.
and i think that a lot of people are missing out bcuz they care too much about graphics[/QUOTE]

exactly, it has quite a few presentation issues such as lip sync (the biggest problem with animation and graphics in this game). Also I guess the cliched story may put people off but I actually did like the storyline for its simplicity as it is clearly building up to something big for the next 2 games (I remember reading the story is meant to span 3 games).

[QUOTE="YaTwice, post: 5063983]stupid me for clicking the spoiler button before reading the warning lmao... Cannot wait for wkc 2 thx for the vids here's some rep[/QUOTE]

lol, trigger happy on the spoiler tag?
I'll give it a bigger spoiler warning to prevent spoiling it for any more people who havent finished it.

 

[geostar]

thanks for the vids. Loved the first game and can't wait for the second which looks improved.