Dust: An Elysian Tail – Trailer

the art is amazing, but it looks like another button breaker beat’em up, and it even features furries… this one is not on my radar

anyone who doesn’t like a game cuz it has animals in it is a freakin idiot.

Not “just” animals, but anthropomorphic animals. I’m not a huge fan either, despite having read tons of Brian Jacques books in my youth. The animation in the preview does look cool though.

YIFF IN HELL FURFAGS [/b]

With that out of the way, let’s do something completely different; let’s not even as much as mention that strange furry aspect of the game for the rest of the… Thread.

This thing still looks so bloody awesome, I’ll definitely give it a try even if it is just a button breaker beat’em up. Something this pretty, I don’t care.

The game looks brilliant, but the video editing and the logos are awful. They really should drop the bevel and emboss and Stop Capitalizing Every Single Fucking Word. I just wish it’ll come to the PC as well!

@vb I was thinking the same thing when I saw the trailer last night. It’s odd that a game with such pretty artwork has such comparatively terrible typography / logo design.

Still it looks fantastic. I’m still trying to get my head around the the fact that this is less then a years worth of work by one guy.

This looks amazing, but I can only hope that the gameplay gets deep enough to make it *play* amazing, too.

Side note: the internet needs to get over the whole furryphobia thing. This is a game. Is “Lion King” “furry” because it has walking and talking animals?

Holy cow…I didn’t think it was possible, but I think this animation might be better than Odin Sphere’s.

So he’s remaking Odin Sphere except with furries.

It is odin sphere, there is nothing different. Sidescrolling beat em up with rpg elements in a beautiful anime world. Here’s a vid of odin sphere, tell me they’re not the same thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmbEVHI5_MQ

I dunno, it just seems like the animal things here are very…furry. I mean, when I look at rachet and clank or sly cooper I don’t see furry. But here I get this strange furry vibe. I dunno.

What struck me is the beautiful, fluid animation in-game, and then the completely static character emotion portraits. It doesn’t bode well for the suggested level of detail that will be paid to the game’s story elements, if their focus and budget are on the game part alone…

I’m not a fan of the character designs (especially those character portraits with the text), but everything else looks splendid. It reminds me of Odin Sphere and Muramasa, which is a great thing. A fun (hopefully) side scrolling beat ‘em up with beautiful animation and art direction.

as a friend of many a furry, a furry enthusiast, and being a furry myself i think i will enjoy this game.

but only because i’m a furry. in fact, anyone that’s not a furry will probably hate this game because it has a furry in it.

“Dust. Anybody? No?
Dust. Anybody? No?
Dust. Anybody? No?
Dust. Anybody? No?
Dust is actually very low on fat.”
comes to mind.

That main character has a really weird walk animation. Apart from that and the furryphobia which might or might not be of the internet, it looks promising, but I’m definitely not buying an xbox just for this.

Oh, please. Sonic the Hedgehog was a great sidescroller/platformer and it featured an anthropomorphic animal. It’s a largely irrelevant style detail.

This actually looks pretty kickass. Reminds me of Odin Sphere…I just hope the combat is a little more nuanced.

Is this “furry,” not just anthropomorphic? I thought “furry” just referred to a certain group of fan(atic)s and their varying levels of oddness? It’s kinda like calling Kung Fu Panda or Donald Duck or the Looney Tunes “furry.”

The waking/running animation seems a bit awkward IMHO, but the fight animation seems pretty cool.

The artwork, animations and effects are fantastic…. but it’s got furries in it.

Seriously though, the game looks well done and looks like it could be quite fun. However, since the furry fanbase is very small, I don’t know how profitable the game will be for the company on Xbox Live.

Dear god who gives a flying toss about what the art actualy is, as long as it is not explicit and it looks cool and fliud i don’t care.

Gameplay wise i am slightly worried though, i could only really see two strings of attackings being used, and that WTF PAWNED magic attack the little flying thing does, there did not seem to be much variaty.

i really hope there is a non XBL version comming out, i would like to see it on steam 8P

Another thing no ones mentioned is that the bosses look really fun and epic to fight.

Over all i am looking forwards to this game, and the moive that this game is based on looks quite interesting too.

“However, since the furry fanbase is very small, I don’t know how profitable the game will be”

Lion King did okay.

Seriously, the guys freaking out over the game having animal characters… insecure much? Has knowledge of the internet really scarred you so deeply that you can’t even look at an animal character without going nuts?

Sad. So very sad.

And as someone said, this looks about as ‘furry’ as Kung Fu Panda. Yes, there’s animal characters. Yes, they’re beating the fuck out of each other and going on magical adventures. That is cool.

OMG the game looks amazing!! I’ll be there for the release! xD

I find it weird that the still character portraits don’t seem to match the quality of everything else.

My God, I thought that nothing could surpass the sheer beauty of Odin Sphere or Muramasa…

(Also, freaking about furries in a nonsexual and noncreepy context is a sign of deep, deep insecurity)

starfox is the only cool furry

The dude behind this game was an animator for Jazz Jackrabbit 2 just FYI.

this thing’s gorgeous but boy, that Prop Shredder move looks like it’s going to solve everything in this game

Looking great, but I agree with LordRolo about the moveset. I hope there is more to it than what it showed off.

And PC release, please?! OH GOD, PLEASE!

Got a huge Odin Sphere vibe at first (and a hard-on appropriate to that (not a furry I swear to god)) then the fighting started and. Well I am just really looking forward to this so much.

If it plays even half as good as it looks and sounds, I’m gonna love this.

if(animal.isGirl && animal.hasBoobs)
then return FURRY_NOTHANKS;
else
return ANTHROPOMORPHIC_OK;

It looks really pretty though… maybe I can make an exception.

..BOOOOOBS

to further derail the thread, i don’t see how The Lion King is furry at all

Anthropomorphic is defined as applying human qualities to anything.

In the Lion King’s case, it’s not physical, but mental qualities that are ascribed to animals.

I love the art style in this, but for the love of god, please fix that ridiculous running animation. Animal or not, bipeds should extend their leading foot forward to stride, not just raise their knee while keeping their foot behind them.

Walt Disney was a known furry

Now I hope you guys remember this – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYPl-kduey8 , a game called Claw and made by Monolith in 1997? Back then nobody complained and screamed furry all over the place because Claw and now Elysian Tail are just games not some badly drawn explicit images of ‘furries’ having intercourse. I don’t think it’s fair to associate the game with the term furry just because those images exist. And btw, notice how similar the character is in both games?

Everyone who’s posted in a positive manner towards this game has been listed as a furry sympathizer, and you know what we do to sympathizers…

For starters, we put them on lists.

I’m really suprised how far he’s gone with the visual effects. Anyone else notice the rippling effect with that weird wind cyclone?

If the only reason who won’t play this game is because of furries, you really need to evaluate yourself.

I I hope this won’t be generic as far as beat ‘em ups go.

Oh wow, I didn’t notice that running animation at first. It looks like the character is just trying to hop on one leg.

It’s a shame that it’s furry.

Also, I predict cliched, cheesy, and otherwise crappy dialog. Don’t know why.

(Gah, keeps cutting off my comments.)

Looking at it a bit closer, gameplay looks a little generic, but who can say for certain. I also doubt the story will be any good (who knows about the music, although, I’d imagine it’d be really hard to screw something like that up). And the film looks UGHHHHHHHHHHH no thanks.

On a side note, Jazz Jackrabbit was a pretty cool game.
Meh, I’ll just stick with Vanillaware’s stuff.

This game was posted already.

Why is it being posted again? I’d understand if the game were updated or released, but it seems like you forgot that you posted about this game already and posted about it again.

Note to self: insert anthromorphic animals in game to generate free self-feeding publicity

The running animation has got to be one of the worst, if not THE worst, I’ve ever seen in a game.

It’s like he’s floating over the ground at an angle, just thrusting out his legs every few seconds (which, the way it is drawn, could be the same leg really).

One-legged-diagonal-floating-sprint…

the game looks incredible, the run animation is a little weird, yes.. it looks like he’s skipping along

i’m not sure about the combat, like others have mentioned all I saw was 2 sword hits and then straight to that spinning move.

Run animation needs to be fixed.

Doesn’t seem to show much combat outside of the two moves he actually does. And it’s not like they’re used in specific contexts, either. Just smack, smack, twirl, fireball things–rinse, repeat. There seems to be a lack of “token gameplay element” ie. the one, gameplay-centric feature that recurs everywhere. Poyo’s teleport dashing comes to mind.

I don’t know why everyone is bitching about the “furry” aspect. Rofl. Just seems like bandwagon effectx10. It’s a popular thing to rag on furries, apparently with complete disregard to the quality of the work in which they’re featured.

@geist: We had only posted ‘Pre-Alpha’ footage before. Since this is video of the build being submitted to the XNA Dream Build Play Comp it seemed worth having its own post.

Lame boots.

Maybe it’s because I don’t frequent Somethingawful and similar corners of the internet but this whole ‘furry’ problem is really a mystery me. Artist have depicted animals with anthropomorphic qualities since the dawn of time and this has rarely if ever had anything to do with strange fetishism.

I think those who automatically associate animals with sexuality should perhaps be less concerned about the leanings of the artist than their own.

The running animation is indeed a bit strange… strikes me as very anime (the sort of thing you’d get against a flashy strobing background). Otherwise looks really nice.

Does Overgrowth have furry haters/lover issues as well ? It did not occure to me till seeing this fur-bate,. . and do I care?

That idle animation looks awfully familiar… Maybe a Street Fighter or Streets of Rage? Or maybe something from NeoGeo?… can’t remember.

RayRayTea: I’m fairly sure it’s Paws Of Fury 2: Paws of Furry

I’m almost crying right now guys. i’m so proud. I wanted to be the first to shit on that run cycle and several people beat me to it. The internet hasn’t lost all hope after all.

And why are the character portraits drawn like some terrible webcomic? Did the original artist quit at some point? Did their budget run out? Complete stylistic discordance.

So is this a running joke around here or something?

Furries are bad, and always have been bad, WHEN THEY ARE SEXUALIZED. The whole furry backlash started when people started pretending to do dirty, dirty stuff with antropomorphic characters.

They aren’t bad in themselves, and they aren’t bad when put in a quality offering like this one.

But why do I explain this, as it has to be a running joke. TIGSource dwellers aren’t as ridiculous as that, aren’t they?

//I had to look up “sexualized” to make sure that it was a real word, and GIS confirmed it with this : http://contexts.org/socimages/files/blogger2wp/Gender-SexualizedFoodchicken.jpg

Yeah, I get the feeling maybe the character portraits are placeholders. At least I hope so, they don’t match the quality of the rest of the art by far.

I also hope someone convinces him to change the walking animation, I hadn’t really noticed it but it’s kind of weird way to move around.

looks nice. i’m not sure i agree about it looking better than odin sphere, but it’s certainly up there in the nicest-looking 2d games category

All of the animation is really nice, except the run animation which looks completely out of place. All of the other characters moves have weight and feeling to them, and his run animation looks like his just swinging his front leg back and forth and somehow gliding forwards.

I’d just like to contribute that here be furries.

NO!!!!!!!

Pretty, but ultra cheesy-synth BGM.

this is ironic and true:

fucking furries

Nice hand-drawn characters and backgrounds, cool graphics, smooth animations.. I’d rate it higher if only that orange pixie thing wasn’t hypersexualized.

Has a lot of potential and already has a lot right but the bug-eyed (Pokemon) anime kills it for me. Just a personal beef though. Not my style.

Tremendously fun game. The animation definitely looks on par with Odin Sphere’s when you see it in action at 720P – I don’t know if I’d say it’s *better*, since it lacks a certain… something. But it’s really well executed and it doesn’t hurt that the game itself is actually pretty fun too.

Looks fucking fantastic. Odin Sphere was an amazing game, and so was the Jazz Jackrabbit series. I hope it doesn’t become an xbla title and stays on xna…. 15-20 is too expensive

Tough crowd – looks stylistically brilliant to me. I agree with some of the others, it’ll come down to making the sidescolling combat interesting and not just flashy. Even if it does that just OKAY, still worth a look on production value alone.

http://www.elysiantail.com/image/screens/2004jan25.jpg

lol

firesword: the worlds first cartoon made in GIMP???

everything looks pretty coool…..save for that running animation, that’s all sorts of terrible.

excellent animation, though my only gripe with it is his run cycle; looks odd, but still pretty good. the whole furry thing is a slight turn off for me as well, tho all i need to do is be reminded of Star Fox and i’m good to go.

man, i love seeing games created by 1 man armies.

also impressive is that this guy apparently only learned programming 7 months ago, and this is his first game, and he’s doing everything for it except the music (art, programming, sounds, writing, etc.)

paul: I don’t know if that impresses me or worries me. I hope it’s not littered with bugs and glitches. ALTHOUGH I will say that XBLA generally does a pretty good job of making sure games won’t destroy your xbox before sending them out. So I guess that means I’m impressed!

This seems so much in the spirit of Jazz Jackrabbit to me that I think I’ll enjoy it.

Looks cool, except for, yeah, that weird running animation.

I couldn’t care less about people’s furryphobia; yeah the character designs aren’t to my personal taste but not so much as to be a deal-breaker.

But I must have missed the memo about Odin Sphere having impressive animation – it’s mostly just segmental rotation isn’t it? That’s like saying Earnest Evans had awesome animation.

Earnest Evans had awesome animation

Paul: I’m pretty sure that the guy said that he already had programming skills, but just hadn’t done any for a long time.

zork nemesis: eh?

lol

Oh, by the way guys, Cave Story had furries too, you know.

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW

I’m pretty impressed at the scope of this, considering it’s a single developer effort. Someone’s got a great work ethic.

I could nitpick, but honestly it would just be my jealousy doing the talking (but damn- fix that run animation!). Okay, I’ll stop now.

Best wishes in the competition!

“Earnest Evans had awesome animation”

Guys, it really, really didn’t.

“However, since the furry fanbase is very small, I don’t know how profitable the game will be”

Fortunately it turns out that it’s just Internet People who actually pay attention to the OMG FURRIES wanking and wailing. The huge majority of gamers just, y’know, like to play games that are fun.