Hi, this is Kyle, I’m a producer here at SCEA’s Santa Monica Studios. One of the titles I am working on, and quite frankly playing most often, is Heavenly Sword. I’ve read a lot of your comments on this blog about this title and I’m happy to confirm the reports that we’ll have a downloadable demo coming this week to the PLAYSTATION Store.
The complete game is still set for September, but I think you’ll find this demo is a great sample of what’s in store and it’ll certainly give you a good idea of the look and feel of the game. To set the stage here, at the beginning of this demo, our heroine, Nariko, gains consciousness after a violent encounter with the evil King Bohan and his army. Nariko learns that Bohan is holding her father, Shen, prisoner inside a massive temple complex so she sets out to fulfill her destiny and embarks on a quest for vengeance against the invading King and his army.
Keep a lookout for the demo on the PLAYSTATION Store this week, I’m anxious to read what you guys think of it.
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I’M DOWNLOADING THE RISE FROM LAIR DEMO FROM THE JAPANSES STORE
@Kyle
will we here in North America get the Darkness demo anytime soon? Although I do prefer Heavenly Sword’s demo first to the Darkness demo.
EDIT : JPANESE STORE
EDIT : JAPANESE STORE
SORRY ABOUT THAT
IT’S JUST THAT I’M SOOO TIRED
SURFIN DA NET FOR THE LAST 18 HOURS
awesome to know the rumor is true, can’t wait to get my hands on the demo
@assassin
not to disappoint you but thats NOT a demo its a video!!
cant wait for this.
Hate to be the greedy bastard but can we get more demos plz.
How bout lair and the darkness and other games that have already been released.plz
pretty plz.
Sony please respond to this by means of demos.
sry, jus being greedy.
@LOUCIFER
DUH
LIKE I DIDNT KNOW IT’S A VIDEO
I’M JUST MISSING AROUND THAT’S ALL
BTW I’M STRAIGHT GANGSTA
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OFF TOPIC
But if you want a demo from Japan i’d highly recommend the Folklore demo under the Folk Soul title in Japan…you have to guess whats going on though which really isnt that hard unless you already know Japanese.
well im going to sleep…have fun just kidding around by narrating your annoying life and wasting space
@Assassin
dude u got a lot of free time.
YEAH
I PLAY PS3 18 HOURS A DAY
AND SURF DA NET 15 HOURS
OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT
WAIT….
IT’S 16 HOURS ON THE NET
@Assassin
33hrs wit no sleep.lucky u
@sony
im really thankful for HS demo but is there any word on an uncharted demo from naughtydog?
im really lookin forward to this game and a demo will be great.
thx
@fiaz
so that’s why i can’t see a thing
i’m going to sleeeeeeeeeeep
BUT
I’LL BE BACK !!!
yay i got rid of him
LOL!
LOL
YOU DID NOT
HA HA HA
The RUMOR of this demo was partially the reason I got my PS3 early.
I’m happy to hear that I was right in my decision! :D
@AssassinXIII
Go to sleep now so you can play the demo without any fatigue or drowsiness. And stop drinking all that coffee.
I’m happy to see a demo coming out but with or without it, i would’ve picked up Heavenly Sword. I was decided after i saw the gameplay shot on Heroes… nice way to get images out to a massive audience.
I’m hoping the story lasts a bit longer than some of the other titles that i’ve played. It seems like companies bust their asses getting an impressive piece of work out and then seem satisfied with a game that can be finished in a few sessions. Gears of War was fun but i blinked and it was over… all that was left was 2-8 multiplayer which.. was kindof weak after Resistances support of up to 40.
@ Kyle Shubel : Which is part of the reason i’m looking forward to the versatility of LBP. Any info on how big the beta is going to be? I was happy to hear about it but they always seem to pass me by.
@AssassinXIII
LOLZ I Love you again. Plus I hate you more. Celery!
This is going to be a huge week for us Ps3 owners. I cannot wait for this game. I wish Even Wells would drop us an Uncharted demo to pass the long wait until it hits. That’s my most anticipated game, other than Heavenly Sword and & Ratchet & Clank… Oh, and Warhawk… and Lair and Little Big planet and Eightdays… and Well, any and everything in sony’s exclusive camp.
YeAAAAAA baby heavenly sword is the reason that i didn’t buy ninja gaiden sigma for ;D
Thanks for keeping us up to date and we’ll return the favor by giving you our feedback. Really looking forward to the game (it’ll be my next purchase for my PS3).
Awsome, now give us the MGS4 demo and you can only update the PSN with trailers for 9 months. :D
@kyle
@travis
do you two have some pull with sony to have them add Flash 8 or 9 so I can watch trailers and videos online via my PS3.
Please.
Thankyou.
Yes finally its here I thought i was gonna DIE before playing this GAME and NOW i could say welL not I CANT say i can die now because its just a DEMO! o btw IM EVILEMPIRE i will pwnd evreybody in this game AND in any game!
Awesome!
Anyone can see this game is going to rock, with or without the demo. Thank you guys non-the-less. Can’t wait!
Whoohoo this game looks awsome i just cant wait to get the retail copy in my hands man those developers must of been working hard it looks so amazing well done guys.
Looking forward to this demo, the videos of the game seem really nice.
Interested in how the different stances work out.
Ps store is finally starting to look good =D.
Heavenly sword is one of the anticipated games on the ps3 and we all can see why, killer graphics and awesome fighting system ^^
What demos are you guys maybe releasing next? ;D
I am sure excited about actually getting my hands on Heavenly Sword. Only thing I need from Sony is a launch date for Bravia W3000 here in Europe. I can’t stand the thought of playing HS on a CRT.
Finally the wait of more than two years is coming to an end. Tomorrow I can finally have a snippet of HS here in Holland.
Yesterday I told my wife I waited two years for this game. She asked what is so special about it, did you play it. I answered No I didn’t play it… What I know is when I first saw HS at E3 2005 I immediatley fell in love with the game and followed it since. She smiled at me and understood she will never understand my gameritis.
Kyle we will be sure to tell you how we liked the demo. Im expecting this game to be fantastic. Just one more day you guys, One more day…
Nice… keep the releases simultaneous in all regions, thats why you made the PS3 region FREE right?
Keep the demo’s rolling and if possible, give us info on Rumble-AXIS
@AssassinXIII
“I KNOW JAPANESE”
Loved your post, quite funny. Just a little Japanese tip – It’s not DISS, it’s DESU (pronounced DESS). Anyway, not bad from learning it just from Anime. Nihongo ganbatte.
As for the English, the word is Gangster (ok, just j/k with you now).
^_^
yeah boyyy!
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This is SICK news, and it’s good to see internal Sony peeps responding here in a down-to-earth manner.
I am loving what you guys are doing with the PS3 so far, and cannot wait to see what the next firmware update brings. It’s good to know that you guys really are listening to our top wants. :)
Lets see…this demo will come out and the day after I’m sure someone will bitch that we need more demos. Just cuz thats the usual manner I’ve noticed on this blog. They give us something…not good enough…so an additional 500 comments about how crappy they are doing everything. They reply…tell you they got more good stuff coming…then you guys want it NOW…waiting is unacceptable….blah blah blah.
@thereapersson
Me too I like every firmware/store update because it only improves our system/store.
WOOOO i can’t wait! You da man kyle! YOU DA MAN!!!
While this is great and I don’t mean to discredit this great demo release, any news on a Lair demo? Two are better then one, and since Lair releases in a relativly short time I figured it should be on its way (I guess the June release fell through for some reason, if there was ever sapposed to be a June release in the first place).
Apologies, this is a bit of off topic. Apparently if you log in and try to access the previous 1.90 firmware topic, all you get is a blank page. Could somebody fix it.
I was going to leave some feedback on a potential bug I found on the latest firmware…
Okay, i found the feedback form… sorry again :)
Sweet Box… I can heard its screaming. Did u want to be part of my collection…? huh?
Only 2 words 4 u:
HEAVEN YEAH!
I can’t wait to be able to play this game on Thursday. I’ve never had the chance to get my hands on God of War, so this will be very new to me. (It would probably still be even if I haven’t play GOW since they are two different games). But I’m looking forward in enjoying this game.
*Off Topic*
Also, the MGS4 gameplay demo Kojima showed off yesterday was incredible. I could see so many improvements from looking back as little as MGS3. In showing that demo, I just can’t stand that I have to wait more months to get my hands on it.
@Kyle
Are you a Metal Gear fan bro?
Its finally coming, i hope that this will be a sign of things to come, an end to the ‘dry spot’ that we are having qua demos. Gr8 work, keep it up.
Also my compliments to the Artists for the box shot design, it is looking utterly amazing. One of the best i have seen in a long time.
Man, I was going to comment on the firmware update but I guess they don’t want anymore comments on that thread so I going to say what I want right here then get to the subject on Heavenly Sword.
I like the wall paper update but the PS3 really need the DivX support and ingame xmb. These two kind of go hand and hand because you should be able to listen to music on your PC in a videogame, at its basic level. I know that Sony’s tired of hearing that demand but these 2 in particular are the most frustrating and disappointing things about the system.
That being said, I think that you all know that and you all are working on it. However, you got to know that it is very sad when you have video you want to see on your PS3 and you have paid 600 for this machine but have to go back to your PC to view the content. To me not being able to use DLNA feature to its full potential is very disappointing. I learned last night PS3 owners can’t even play mpeg4 video. I mean what gives?
Back to Heavenly Sword. Software is what Sony is doing right, and bringing out the demo shows that Sony is listening. This demo will be played to death until the full game is released, then it will become a must buy at all cost.
::OFF TOPIC::
Did anyone get Castlevania SotN from the PS Store? Cuz I’m having problems saving on my PS3. It doesn’t recognize my internal memory cards for some reason. Any ideas? Thanks