Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This?

Gar king

What The Hell is this


Basically from what I gather this is an action-puzzle game where, you play the god of destruction who's job is to build dungeons. It looks interesting and I though it deserved a thread

Their is next to no information about this other than it's developed by NIS America and comes out this july

Teslan26

Makes me think of dwarf fortress to an extent.

It is a pretty awesome name, if nothing else.

abotkin

This looks... interesting. Without any info though, hard to say whether it's worth looking into more. I do like making dungeons though, so if this involves that concept, it's worth at least Gameflying.

Igort

There's lots of info about this game over at the Playstation Blog.

AggroChan

Satirical RPG?

abotkin

AggroChan wrote: »

Satirical RPG?

Bwuh?

PlayStation.Blog wrote:

“Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman!” is a strategy game with an RPG feel to it.

Definitely sounds interesting after reading that short blurb about it.

Zombiemambo

Fuck yes, this is coming to the US!? I've always wanted to play this.

Al Baron

Hardcore Gaming 101 just put up a writeup about this game and its sequel a few weeks ago.

Here's a bit about the 'Satirical RPG' thing:

An important point to focus on besides the gameplay is that Namaikida is a spoof. It’s a comedy meta-game filled with gags based on the staples of the RPG genre. The names of monsters and heroes, challenges, descriptions, bits of dialogue spoken by heroes while exploring (only in the sequel) - all of it in some way mocks genre conventions and titles like Dragon Quest, Dungeon Master, et al. An RPG barman enters the dungeon at one point, and sometimes when a hero dies he’ll cry out "Why didn’t I save?!" Some challenges have names like The Dragon Question, Dragon Buster-buster, while another is called Yobidase Daisakusen, which is almost guaranteed to be a reference to Tobidase Daisakusen, the Square game that became known as Worldrunner 3D. One of the levels is also called Final Fantastic XIII. Even the demonlord’s personality raises a smile, since he’s not as evil as you’d suspect, whimpering and crying like a child when things don’t go his way, while throughout the game uses a lot of internet slang. Unfortunately most of the humour is confined to written text, and with well over 200 character profiles available to read, that’s a lot of humour non-Japanese speakers will miss out on.

Going off the screenshots of this so far, NIS understands this. It remains to be seen how well they'll convert the parody crap into western terms, though.

DeathPrawn

Al Baron wrote: »

Going off the screenshots of this so far, NIS understands this. It remains to be seen how well they'll convert the parody crap into western terms, though.

Given the awesome translation of the Prinny game, I'm fairly optimistic NIS can pull it off.

Axen

This has reminded me that I would love to see Mel Brooks create/write a game.

psycojester

So basically this is japanese dungeon keeper. I'd probably feel slightly annoyed by that the franchise wasn't dead/dormant.

Aroduc

Thread lacks references to Houk's secretions.

Fatal3RR0R

This is so bought.

EvilBadman

My lawyers have advised me not to comment as to my involvement with the aforementioned activities.

Zombiemambo

psycojester wrote: »

So basically this is japanese dungeon keeper. I'd probably feel slightly annoyed by that if the franchise wasn't dead/dormant.

more Dungeon Keeper is always a good thing, Bullfrog or not.

RoyceSraphim

"What'cha playing mister?"

Clive Owen: "Making a dungeon to torment do-gooders, what about you kid?"

"Imma killin HOES WIT AN UZI!"

Good times

greeble

I would buy this game at the $20 price point on the name alone. If it comes out at $30 I will have to see more information/reviews. In anycase it looks/sounds different.

Mr.Brick

The art is this game looks fantastic.

chamberlain

I came in here expecting another bitchy DRM thread, and am pleasently surprised.

PSN release, please?

Lunker

FYI, there's a "demo" of this now available on the Playstation Store (viewable through your PSP, since only about five people in the world know about this feature). It's a whopping 9 MB, so either it's a tiny-ass demo, a long trailer, or the game just has a super-small footprint in general. Who knows?

greeble

Judging by the art I'm guessing this game has a very small foot print.

RoyceSraphim

Shota? Raise your hands if you get the joke *raises hand*

MrTowel

I think I remember reading about this in an EGM column a long-ass time ago.

Lunker

...and I downloaded it and I have no idea what I'm doing. It's pretty complex. It's not like Dungeon Master, where you can pick up and move your monsters. Instead, you're digging paths to uncover tiny little slime monsters, and from there the slimes wander around, eventually decay and turn into flowers that then leak power into other soil blocks, and from there you dig out those soil blocks to unearth slightly more powerful monsters, etc. etc. So "ecological management" is the name of the game—kind of reminded me of Sim Ant in a strange way. You have to make sure you have enough weak monsters that die and help create stronger monsters, but since the stronger monsters feed on the weaker ones you can't kill all of them off.

A demo is a good idea because it's as confusing as hell at first.

Sheep

MrTowel wrote: »

I think I remember reading about this in an EGM column a long-ass time ago.

I saw a bunch of YouTube vids a while back and was instantly interested. Glad this thread popped up.

Just gotta find my PSP.

EDIT

...and I downloaded it and I have no idea what I'm doing. It's pretty complex. It's not like Dungeon Master, where you can pick up and move your monsters. Instead, you're digging paths to uncover tiny little slime monsters, and from there the slimes wander around, eventually decay and turn into flowers that then leak power into other soil blocks, and from there you dig out those soil blocks to unearth slightly more powerful monsters, etc. etc. So "ecological management" is the name of the game—kind of reminded me of Sim Ant in a strange way. You have to make sure you have enough weak monsters that die and help create stronger monsters, but since the stronger monsters feed on the weaker ones you can't kill all of them off.

A demo is a good idea because it's as confusing as hell at first.

Lunk, this is a downloadable title?

Lunker

Sheep wrote: »

MrTowel wrote: »

I think I remember reading about this in an EGM column a long-ass time ago.

I saw a bunch of YouTube vids a while back and was instantly interested. Glad this thread popped up.

Just gotta find my PSP.

EDIT

...and I downloaded it and I have no idea what I'm doing. It's pretty complex. It's not like Dungeon Master, where you can pick up and move your monsters. Instead, you're digging paths to uncover tiny little slime monsters, and from there the slimes wander around, eventually decay and turn into flowers that then leak power into other soil blocks, and from there you dig out those soil blocks to unearth slightly more powerful monsters, etc. etc. So "ecological management" is the name of the game—kind of reminded me of Sim Ant in a strange way. You have to make sure you have enough weak monsters that die and help create stronger monsters, but since the stronger monsters feed on the weaker ones you can't kill all of them off.

A demo is a good idea because it's as confusing as hell at first.

Lunk, this is a downloadable title?

The demo is.

Sheep

Ah.

See, I probably can't get an iPhone until next year, and the idea of a PSP where I don't have to lug around a bunch of games is a pleasant idea. I was trying to put two and two together...

DeathPrawn

Sheep wrote: »

MrTowel wrote: »

I think I remember reading about this in an EGM column a long-ass time ago.

I saw a bunch of YouTube vids a while back and was instantly interested. Glad this thread popped up.

Just gotta find my PSP.

EDIT

...and I downloaded it and I have no idea what I'm doing. It's pretty complex. It's not like Dungeon Master, where you can pick up and move your monsters. Instead, you're digging paths to uncover tiny little slime monsters, and from there the slimes wander around, eventually decay and turn into flowers that then leak power into other soil blocks, and from there you dig out those soil blocks to unearth slightly more powerful monsters, etc. etc. So "ecological management" is the name of the game—kind of reminded me of Sim Ant in a strange way. You have to make sure you have enough weak monsters that die and help create stronger monsters, but since the stronger monsters feed on the weaker ones you can't kill all of them off.

A demo is a good idea because it's as confusing as hell at first.

Lunk, this is a downloadable title?

No (AFAIK), but the demo's out on PSN.

[edit] Beaten like a red-headed stepchild.

Lunker

This would actually be a title that might benefit from digital distro. It's so aimed at the hard-core niche that it might not affect sales all that much (if it does come out on retail, how many copies of this do you think a GameStop is really going to carry), and because of the game's lo-fi style, I think it'll end up being pretty small (again, the demo is 9MB).

Bloodsheed

Well I thought I had the hang of it. First Hero almost made it halfway, second died in the entrance and then the third attempt utterly stomped everything I threw at them.

Damn you Sukisuki!

Oh, and make sure you read the Almanac after you finish. Some of it is hilarious (such as Sukisuki).

XiaNaphryz

So I'm having trouble once I hit level 5. Is there a general strategy guide anywhere to go over dungeon building fundamentals and the right number and ratio of servants?

JJ

Damn, I ignored this thread the whole time because I wasn't used to the game not being called by its Japanese title. I didn't even know it was being localized.

KKprofit

Just started playing this. There is also a purportedly better sequel yet to be translated. I command this thread to flourish so that I may discuss my many future failures!

Dis

Stupid Slimes and Spirits.
I hate the way they moves and random give nutrients or eat them.

Obanye

Bloodsheed wrote: »

Well I thought I had the hang of it. First Hero almost made it halfway, second died in the entrance and then the third attempt utterly stomped everything I threw at them.

Damn you Sukisuki!

Oh, and make sure you read the Almanac after you finish. Some of it is hilarious (such as Sukisuki).

You usually got to split them up who they will stomp through your whole level. Plus putting some souls in a dead guys skeleton and reactivating it usually works pretty well.


I can't get past stage 5 where there's 3 guys one is a witch. Those guys just tear though whatever I have out there. This game is sooo hard. I must be missing a lot of basic stuff like level design because it feels like impossible at that point.

KKprofit

Holy crap this game is hard...

Drake

chamberlain wrote: »

I came in here expecting another bitchy DRM thread, and am pleasently surprised.

DS release, please?

blaklaw

i have the vague sense that this game would be really, really fun if i was any good at it.

KKprofit

Holy crap this guy makes me feel bad. Dragon rape video if anyone hasn't seen it.


SPOILERS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk8FfyGp_So

Satsumomo

Title needs to be changed, I skipped this thread for months thinking it was DRM related.

Ah_Pook

but thats the title of the game...