Every Extend Extra - PC Demo Out

[ElPresidente]

It would appear that Q Entertainment are taking a slightly different approach to that taken by Sony when it comes to getting PSP demo's out to the general populace. Rather than providing a PSP demo for download, Mizuguchi and crew have just released a PC trial of their upcoming PSP suicide-em-up Every Extend Extra (http://www.everyextendextra.com/).

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c102/ElPrezAU/e3.jpg

Finding where to download this game is a pain in the rear if you can't read Japanese. So here's a direct link (http://fs.games.yahoo.co.jp/download/eee/EEE_Trial.exe).

[J3DI]

Off topic....

The reason this site is one of my favorite and choice site for gaming news, is because it never sleeps. Here it is 1:00AM and it's still being updated...

Evil Avatar... I'd marry you, if you weren't... well evil.

[ElPresidente]

1:00 am there maybe... it was around 12:00 pm my time when I made the post. ;) (although credit to whoever was up late enough to approve this news post)

Anyway I've completed the trial and hot damn if this isn't a metric shiteload of fun.

Can't wait for the retail release... I'm a bit of a Mizuguchi fanboy I have to say; Space Channel 5, Lumines and Rez are some of my favourite games of all time. I'd be darn surprised if this didn't join that illustrious crew.

*edit*

I almost forgot. The controls are your arrow key and the z button blows yourself up.

All exploding objects create an area of damage as evidenced by the graphics for the explosions. That includes your ship so what you want to do is wait for lines of enemy ships to appear before you explode at the extremity of one. It is kind of like dominos in the way it works.

Also the OK button in menus, etc always seems to be the one on the left.

[Odyzen]

Games looks good. much more elaborate than Every Extend, which is free to download!
Hope it turns out well.

[ElPresidente]

Every Extend? Tell me more or even better, show me a link. ;) I didn't know this was a sequel (although the 'Extra' should have been a major clue).

[Odyzen]

Japanese site with some screens: http://nagoya.cool.ne.jp/o_mega/product/e2.html
You can download it from cnet with review.: http://www.download.com/3000-2099-10347823.html

[ElPresidente]

Thanking you kind sir.

[Evil Avnovice]

Like Loco Roco, I hope that a PSP demo eventually makes it way into the internet. The screenshots look cool, but I'd like to play it firsthand and see what the game is like.

[Spiffae]

frankly, I greatly prefer Every Extend to EE Extra, having just played them back to back. The graphics feel tighter, the controls feel better, the sounds are better, and beyond all the things that I prefer in the first game, the two seem identical.

[Paranoia]

Release a PSP demo that runs on PC? They might as well released a port for PC.

[Syl]

If anyone is curious about the original game, it is completely freeware and available here:
http://www.download.com/3000-2099-10347823.html

[thingsicando]

oooh!

good find.

however it's E^2 instead of E^3.

[Kamalot]

Release a PSP demo that runs on PC? They might as well released a port for PC.
Seeing how the PC has a much larger install base, they would be foolish not to release a PC version.

Also, how much longer till a PSP emulator is up and running on PCs?

[ElPresidente]

Not necesarily, this isn't the kind of game that would rush off store shelves in the PC section. Game quality is rarely an assurance of sales, it needs to cater to the market. This could do well on PC but it would need to be released in a Popcap environment IMO.

On handhelds and consoles this kind of gameplay is much more likely to draw purchases.

[Kamalot]

This could do well on PC but it would need to be released in a Popcap environment IMO.
That's exactly what I had in mind. Think Bejeweled or Zuma. Download the demo, pay $19 for the full game. It could go like hotcakes!

Instead, players are asked to pay $200 for a piece of fragile hardware that needs to frequently suckle from the power outlet.

[Hilden]

I loved the PSP demo of the game from E3, but I'm curious as to why they went with a PC demo when they already have a PSP demo ready to go?

[Odyzen]

Every Extend is free for the PC, released in 2004. Every Extend Extra was announced last year, I think, for the PSP to increase its library. I don't think the sequel was meant for the PSP. Guess Sony just gave these guys incentive to make a sequel for the PSP. It's like how two musicians made WTF for the PSP.