A QUICK LOOK AT MARVELOUS’S EVEN QUICKER HERO FOR 30SEC

2009 doesn’t seem to have too much in store for Sony’s PSP at the moment (though I’m currently quite amped to try the just-released demo of Irem’s portable Disaster Report/Raw Danger sequel, the PS2 games being amongst my top 10 for the console), but one game destined to become an Offworld favorite is Marvelous’ Hero for 30Sec.

Thanks to this just-released trailer uploaded by Tiny Cartridge, we can get somewhat of a closer look, though the actual gameplay remains cloudy. What we know is this: the game follows four different characters in a traditional (and retro-pixel) RPG quest, but only allows each character 30 seconds at a time to do their deeds via quick-burst minigames.

The ‘hero’ plays a sidescrolling level-up quest, the ‘princess’s game is a top-down shooter, the ‘knight’s quest is a bird’s-eye action game, and the ‘demon lord’s game plays as a real time strategy to defeat knights trying to attack it.

The game has been announced for Western release (but not yet an American one), and is one I’m anxiously awaiting more details on: check Famitsu for more screens of the game’s gloriously 16-bit look and feel.

Hero for 30Sec [Marvelous, via Tiny Cartridge]