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[sixteen-bit]

lol, so I guess "Let it Die" has a double meaning

 

[catmario]

Oops... It changes to Let it Die huh?

I have to watch LID video again. I didn't remember that game was shown at conference.

 

[mankoto]

Almost threw my phone out of anger. Had to stop myself.

 

[Frumix]

Wait what?
These two games don't even look similar!

 

[Kssio_Aug]

That Famitsu link is not opening here! Is there by any chance removed to avoid false rumours?

 

[GuardianE]

Wow. Worst news of E3.

 

[Mobile Suit Gooch]

They couldn't just change the title?

 

[Sorcerer Supreme]

This and no Last Guardian kills me.

 

[UltraGunner]

I wonder how much of a hand Gung Ho had in turning it into LiD.

 

[Lemstar]

That Famitsu link is not opening here! Is there by any chance removed to avoid false rumours?

Famitsu doesn't allow hotlinking. Go to that URL without clicking on it.

 

[Yasumi]

Aww... I loved how Lily Bergamo had the visual style of a .hack GU cutscene. One less incentive to buy a PS4, I guess.

 

[DXB-KNIGHT]

Such a shame
Nintendo halp

 

[Chamber]

Suda 51 is ..we need to face the facts about his track record.

This is why I'm not bothered at all. Lily Bergamo had a great visual style but I had zero faith in it actually being a good action game. Let It Die will be the usual jank we've come to know.

 

[NotDreamcast]

That's unfortunate. I was looking forward to seeing more of Lily Bergamo too.

 

[IcyEyes]

I don't know if lily bergamo is really canned or not.

For sure that game catch my interest after the trailer and talking about let it die, I can easily say this is the only game i deeply dislike in this e3.

 

[bobbychalkers]

Well that sucks...Lily Beragamo looked much more interesting than Let It Die.

 

[mao2]

That Famitsu link is not opening here! Is there by any chance removed to avoid false rumours?

Copy and paste the URL. And it's not a rumor, it's an interview with the producers.

 

[dreamfall]

Profound sadness if true.

I want to see more of Let it Die, but I loved the little teaser we got of Lily Bergamo!

 

[Randomizer]

I'm actually worried for Grasshopper, their quality has been getting worse and worse. They'll probably be out of business soon. They were like a B-tier Platinum Games now they are Z-tier. Trying to live off Suda's name, as if it ever meant shit to anyone but a small niche. They plaster his name on everything even though he has very little involvement with the development side any more. They certainly have the talent but unfortunately those making decisions are extremely incompetent.

 

[Love Deterrence]

Let it Die |OT| Let it Die

 

[kuroshiki]

I'm actually worried for Grasshopper, their quality has been getting worse and worse. They'll probably be out of business soon. They were like a B-tier Platinum Games now they are Z-tier. Trying to live off Suda's name, as if it ever meant shit to anyone but a small niche. They plaster his name on everything even though he has very little involvement with the development side any more. They certainly have the talent but unfortunately those making decisions are extremely incompetent.

I'm not so sure. I haven't seen any game made by them that screams 'quality'.

 

[Hoo-doo]

Shame. Lily Bergamo looked crazy interesting.

Let It Die, well, doesn't.

 

[VanillaCakeIsBurning]

That's a shame.

That trailer they showed during Sony's conference was very confusing and didn't look interesting at all to me.

 

[Steroyd]

Fuck this shit, the Lily Bergamo teaser looked way better.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

Famitsu doesn't allow hotlinking. Go to that URL without clicking on it.

Yeah, youre right! Sad! =(
And seems that those are "Let it Die" screenshots! Well... not hyped at all.

 

[Pepsiman]

It's not a full translation, but I just read the entirety of that interview and posted a summary of all of the salient points on Gematsu here. As other people have pointed out, the relationship between Lily Bergamo and Let It Die is a bit more complicated that just having the former canceled. Personally, from what I've read, I definitely remain curious about the game from a gameplay perspective, although I'll miss that art style for sure. Eh, I'll take a transition like this over an outright cancellation if it means Suda's core creative intentions from a design perspective are still intact, but I digress.

Choice quote from the article since it looks like this comment could get lost easily:

The interview begins with a brief discussion about the genesis of Let It Die and how it arrived at its current form. As it turns out, Let It Die is essentially the same game as the previously revealed Lily Bergamo that was shown off last fall, retaining the original idea of what the team is calling an “extreme action game” coupled with asynchronous online gameplay while expanding on them with survival aspects.

While it remains uncertain as to whether character designer Yusuke Kozaki will continue to contribute work to the game in this new form, it was confirmed that protagonist Tae Ioroi is no more, as players are now set to just play the game using their own avatars. The transition to the game in its current form commenced around the end of last year as a result of the previously mentioned creative soul searching that Suda and company underwent.

 

[Baust]

This is sad news.

Lily Bergamo was probably the first PS4 game I was interested in.

 

[Mr. Smiley]

No thank you, Grasshopper.

 

[Dragonborn]

Nooo! Ugh, Let it Die did not make a good first impression.

 

[TnK]

Wow, I am actually bummed out it got cancled. Lily looked really cool from what they showed, plus I like the artist's designs.

RIP in pieces lily.

 

[Spongebob]

Lily Bergamo looked far more interesting.

 

[PBY]

Kind of weird how Sony wheeled this out on stage as if it were a new game announcement.

Wonder what happened.

 

[sphagnum]

If people can't figure out how a game that looked like Lily Bergamo morphed into Let It Die, remember that Killer Rabbids morphed into Zombi U.

Whatever happened to the concept art of the girl from No More Heroes?

 

[Agent Matt]

 

[PensOwl]

Incredibly disappointing. Hopefully there will be other games of a similar art style, the cell shaded/super stylized visuals work really well with the increased IQ that current gen can provide.

 

[Astarte]

FUCK my gaming life. SUDA PLEASE.

 

[Hollow]

 

[Kssio_Aug]

Kind of weird how Sony wheeled this out on stage as if it were a new game announcement.

Wonder what happened.

They probably knew it would be bad for their conference to announce that one as a Lily Bergamo replacer, and chosed to use it at the opposite way.

 

[kahboomkin]

I was really looking forward to that game....

 

[Night_Trekker]

I think I'd rather have had Kurayami than Shadows of the Damned, too.

This is the new Grasshopper: announce a cool idea, then make it more standard and boring to really energize the audience!

Fucking Suda REALLY needs to write and direct a game again.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

TURNED INTO Let It Die????????

such a fitting name

 

[Shun]

It looks NOTHING like Let it Die and vice versa.

I refuse to believe that Lily Bergamo turned into Let It Die. They looked like two completely different games.

Lily Bergamo being cancelled is horrible news.

 

[zeopower6]

Uh... what?

 

[Loomer]

Now let Let it Die die.

 

[The Grim Heaper]

This is so fucking dumb. I guess all this good news needs to be balanced out with shit news like this.

 

[KnightHart]

God damn it I was really worried about this happening

I'm more behind whatever miniscule details we got about Lily Bergano than what we've gotten of Let It Die or whatever.

 

[Vazra]

Let it Die die and bring back Lily!

 

[PirateKing]

I can't anymore

 

[Apathy]

It went from a game I would have bought on day one to a game I won't even bother downloading to my PS4.

 

[Paracelsus]

So we went from one game to minus one game (f2p counts as minus one)? That's terrible, simply awful.