Love De Lic

[Discoalucard]

www.hardcoregaming101.net/lovedelic/lovedelic.htm

This is a really cool article about the obscure developer Love De Lic, which later morphed into Skip, the company behind Giftpia and Chibi Robo for the Gamecube. They only published three games, but they certainly sound really cool.

[Smithee]

Wicked article it is. But that is seriously obscure! Shame none of it ever America'd

[Vendaval Este]

hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/lovedelic/lol1.jpg

I think I did a little.

[Sturat]

I've had a feeling that the similarities between Lack of Love and Spore along with the announcements of Captain Rainbow and Little King's Story would draw attention to Love de Lic and its progeny some time soon, I was just hoping it wouldn't happen until after I was able to find Lack of Love at a reasonable price!

Here's a good site:
lovedelicgames.wordpress.com/

I especially like the company profiles.

[kyouki]

I've only played Moon a little bit, but it's a great game. The soundtrack is excellent, indeed.

[crithit5000]

Understatement, perhaps?

Videogames have become one of Japan’s most desired commodities, one they export by the hundreds every year,

[wyrdwad]

Holy crap! Somebody did a Love-de-Lic article! That is AWESOME!! (:

I, too, am a huge Love-de-Lic fan, as evidenced by these:

www.rpgfan.com/news/2006/1275.html

Moon is still one of the greatest games I've ever played. As is Coloball 2002 (made by Vanpool, one of the three companies that Love-de-Lic dissolved into), and Chibi-Robo (which I also reviewed for RPGFan, along with its soundtrack, but both reviews have mysteriously vanished from their site, and they haven't ever responded to my emails to tell me why!).

Oh, and just to FURTHER prove how big of a Love-de-Lic fanatic I am:

www.geocities.com/moon_remix/

(:

With the author's permission, I may endeavor to update this article with further info on some of the Love-de-Lic spinoff companies' games, like Chulip, Chibi-Robo, Coloball 2002, Endonesia, Rule of Rose, etc. That won't happen for a while, though, as I'm LAAAAAZY.

-Tom

[dieubussy]

I hope you liked the article. I deliberatly avoided spoilers both on the text and in the pictures because, as you know, these games are still available out there for you to find them and play.

Some of the information contained in this article is unique, which I got from my comunications with the author and founder of the Love-De-Lic studio, Kenichi Nishi. Like for instance the origin for the name "love-de-lic", which is quite interesting.

I'm currently working with Kenji Eno on an interview, so I might offer to do an article about the WARP company profile for HG101 some day if I have the time.

Meanwhile there's another blog filled with great information concerning these games

love-de-licious.livejournal.com/


Thanks for reading,

Bruno Figueiredo

[Allie]

Kenji Eno? Yikes. There's no man in the games industry I want to stab in the face with a rusty meat fork more than Kenji Eno.

[dieubussy]

I wonder why?

[Atma]

Moon RPG Remix Adventure sounds incredible. A shame we never got it.

[Jave]

Thanks for the info an Akira Ueda. I'd written this rather long essay about Contact under the false belief that Suda51 was the mastermind behind it, then I found out that it was actually directed by Ueda and promptly tried and failed to find any info on the guy.

[dieubussy]

Aug 15, 2008 13:21:30 GMT -5 Jave said:

Thanks for the info an Akira Ueda. I'd written this rather long essay about Contact under the false belief that Suda51 was the mastermind behind it, then I found out that it was actually directed by Ueda and promptly tried and failed to find any info on the guy.

Ueda, like many of the other ex-Love-De-Lic, was a former Squaresoft worker who had participated on games like Secret of Mana - if you play Contact you see some similarities here and there with this title.

Maybe I'll try to find more about who was really the dominant creator in this DS project, if so, I'll post it here too.

Thanks for taking interest.

[Jave]

Aug 15, 2008 16:08:16 GMT -5 dieubussy said:

Ueda, like many of the other ex-Love-De-Lic, was a former Squaresoft worker who had participated on games like Secret of Mana - if you play Contact you see some similarities here and there with this title.

Maybe I'll try to find more about who was really the dominant creator in this DS project, if so, I'll post it here too.

Thanks for taking interest.

Cheers! I didn't really see a lot of similarity, though there are some themes from Moon that seem similar, especially where your interaction with townspeople is concerned.

Anyway, this is what I'd written.*spoilers* It gives most of the credit to Suda, with Ueda's name squeezed in, but still contains some interesting brain candy - I'd like to think so anyway.

[Neo Rasa]

Contact definitely takes a lot of influence from Shining Soul, and I guess by default the Mana game's general layout. Though I'd call it Shining Soul 3 before I call it Secret of Mana 4.