Tokyo Jungle [PSN] - A shining new era / is tip-toeing nearer

Brainiac 8 · May 2012

I want this to be released in the US.

I must play a robo chick.

cj iwakura · June 2012

Donnicton wrote: »

New Tokyo Jungle ad, and gameplay preview.

The first commercial is everything you could ever want in an ad.

Kai_San · June 2012

This is almost like a modern day E.V.O. of sorts. That is fuckin awesome

Skull2185 · June 2012

There's no justice in this world at all if this doesn't see a US release.

Magic Pink · June 2012

I need this game to live.

cj iwakura · June 2012

Rumor has it that this is making the rounds at E3 on a fact sheet, confirming a western release.

Fingers crossed!

Unco-ordinated · June 2012

cj iwakura wrote: »

Rumor has it that this is making the rounds at E3 on a fact sheet, confirming a western release.

Fingers crossed!

A western release was confirmed months ago, just not a US release. And the fact sheet you're talking about was from SCEE, so it just reconfirms something we already knew.

cj iwakura · June 2012

Dream crusher!

Yeah, I heard that too.

Unco-ordinated · June 2012

Let me uncrush your dreams then:

Despite the absence of a pomeranian guest appearance at Sony's E3 2012 press conference, the company's delightfully bizarre-looking Tokyo Jungle is indeed headed to PlayStation Network in North America and Europe. A press release this week confirmed the EU release, and Sony VP of product development and worldwide studios Scott Rohde told us in an interview this week that the "wacky" internally developed PSN game will indeed arrive in North America as well.

"It'll ship here, it'll ship everywhere," Rohde said. To him, Tokyo Jungle's worldwide release is emblematic of Sony's "crazy innovative" approach. "That game is just wacky, but in a good way, because we like to show that there's still an art form, and you can still experiment," he said. "Is everyone gonna love a game like Tokyo Jungle? Absolutely not, but there's a whole bunch of people it's gonna make really happy. Specifically for the fact that it's so different, and so unexpected. That's a key part of the culture of Worldwide Studios and how our games are developed."

Though he couldn't name one specific person internally who championed the previously Japan-only game, Rohde extolled the internal culture that allows games like that to be created. "Someone has a key vision in our [Japan Studios] about Tokyo Jungle, they wanted to build this game. And so we're gonna embrace that. And of course we discuss it, and if it doesn't make sense, we can walk away. We walk away from dozens and dozens of titles every year. But the difference is, we actually build them out to a certain extent. And when they hit a point where we think, 'You know what? This is pretty interesting and it's gonna make some people happy,' we're gonna build it."

Frankly, we're pretty darn happy this one made it through the wringer. Tokyo Jungle doesn't have a release date or price just yet.

So despite SCEA not bothering to even announce or promote it, it will be getting a NA release. Maybe there's hope you guys will eventually get Malicious as well (probably not).

cloudeagle · June 2012

Yeah, definitely going to have to take this for a whirl.

RainbowDespair · June 2012

Awesome! This will either be the greatest game of all time or the worst. Either way, I want it.

LoveIsUnity · June 2012

I'm seriously excited about this. I can't think of any other game that I'm looking forward to this year.

cj iwakura · June 2012

Well, I feel better!

Bring the rain.

EVOL · June 2012

This already came out here in Korea fully translated. Woo.

Too bad I just bought Dragon's Dogma and Virtua Fighter

cj iwakura · June 2012

Hail to the king!

The Pomeranian rules with an iron...er, paw.

Media Create sales for this week:

01./00. [PS3] Tokyo Jungle (SCEI) - 110,309 / NEW
02./01. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry no Wonderland 3D (Square Enix) - 83,329 / 596,512 (-84%)
03./00. [PSV] Kidou Senshi Gundam Seed: Battle Destiny (Namco Bandai) - 40,297 / NEW
04./02. [PS3] Dragon's Dogma (Capcom) - 34,184 / 419,208 (-59%)
05./03. [3DS] Mario Tennis Open (Nintendo) - 24,030 / 167,154 (-42%)
06./04. [WII] Mario Party 9 (Nintendo) - 17,253 / 417,643 (-12%)

Tcheldor · June 2012

Do we have a date?

Brainiac 8 · June 2012

Yea, whether it's bad or not, I'll be owning this game.

SkyTurnsRed · June 2012

Brainiac 8 wrote: »

Yea, whether it's bad or not, I'll be owning this game.

Same here. The concept is just so insanely bizarre that I have to give it a look. There's so much charm coming out of this game.

CowShark · June 2012

This is the first game I ever imported. It's kind of wacky in that you have to play the survival mode to unlock the story mode levels, and for the first several story missions, the stuff you've been doing in survival has probably been way harder than the stuff you do in story mode.

Also, unlocking animals is very grindy. You play one animal in survival and can unlock one or two more animals with it. I'm up to:
Pomeranians->Cats->Beagles->Golden Retrievers->Tosas ->Wolves->Jackals->Lycaons (another wild dog)

and

Deer->Deer with horns (? should probably try to figure out its name)
->Chickens->Rabbits->Porcupines

It's pretty repetitive, in that the brunt of the game is just finding food, mating, and dodging dangerous animals--but it's also pretty compelling ! I've read comparisons to Cubivore; for some reason, it makes me think of Tail of the Sun. As you play through generations of animals, they slowly grow in power. That generational power carries over to subsequent survival mode runs.

cj iwakura · August 2012

First English trailer!

Zombiemambo · August 2012

CowShark wrote: »

Deer with horns (? should probably try to figure out its name)

A...antelope?

El Fantastico · August 2012

Man, what? That trailer needs a date for the NA/EU release.

Unco-ordinated · August 2012

SCEE date is late September, I posted the exact date in the PS Store thread. NA will probably be sometime after it (hopefully not as long as 6 months they took with Malicious).

cj iwakura · September 2012

Release date confirmed for 9/24-25.

Have some reviews!

Kotaku - Recommended

Venture Beat- 85/100

CVG - 8.2/10

PSN Stores - 4/5

TheSixthAxis - 8/10

IGN- 8/10

Destructoid - 7.5/10

Gamesradar - 2.5/5

Playstation Lifestyle - 3/10

Renzo · September 2012

Very excited for this. $15 is not too bad.

El Fantastico · September 2012

Pretty good scores all around, but I've never heard of Gamesradar or Playstation Lifestyle.

NailbunnyPD · September 2012

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-tokyo-jungle/17-6591/

PikaPuff · September 2012

goty

greeble · September 2012

Wow, Weirdest game concept ever. I'm not too sure how much actual fun it will be, but for $15 I don't think I can pass this up.

Adda · September 2012

Massively excited for this and it's out this week yesss!

Chorazin · September 2012

PS Blog just announced Plus members will get this for $11.99, 20% off! I'm so stoked!

PikaPuff · September 2012

it comes out tomorrow, 9/24 was a lie

Magic Pink · September 2012

IMA BUY DIS GAME

Do we know what all critters you can be in it at the start? Not unlockables or anything; I wanna be surprised by those.

PikaPuff · September 2012

The starters:

Story: 1 Pomeranian chapter (pretty much a basic tutorial).
Survival: Polmeranian, Deer.

The jist of how to unlock (as guessed by giant bomb quicklook)

Spoiler:

seabass · September 2012

I tried to pick this up before going to work, but it was not yet available. Hopefully it will drop before the missus goes to work so that I don't have to wait on a download. I am stoked.

RainbowDespair · September 2012

Picked up a $20 PSN card a few days ago. I'm ready.

CowShark · September 2012

Can't wait to play this in English!

I really want to know what's going on in the story missions, and I can't wait to breed my Pomeranians into tiny monsters (animals they can get stronger every generation in survival). Only thing I'm not looking forward to are the finicky stealth missions.

Dr_Keenbean · September 2012

I'm a little confused. Is this not coming out in the US? I'm getting conflicting answers.

RainbowDespair · September 2012

Dr_Keenbean wrote: »

I'm a little confused. Is this not coming out in the US? I'm getting conflicting answers.

It comes out in the US sometime this afternoon (whenever the PSN updates). $15.

seabass · September 2012

RainbowDespair wrote: »

Dr_Keenbean wrote: »

I'm a little confused. Is this not coming out in the US? I'm getting conflicting answers.

It comes out in the US sometime this afternoon (whenever the PSN updates). $15.

I thought that the most recent playstation tweet was the store updating, but it was not.

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