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Elansar & Philia by Hucast & Orion

Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 1:50 am
by Impulse
Hucast is publishing Orion's Elansar & Philia - a new point and click adventure game coming to Dreamcast August 2015.

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Elansar and is now available to purchase from Hucast: Order Elansar & Philia
Check out a mini review of the game by mazeonmayu: Elansar & Philia Review

Press Kit: http://dreamcast-talk.com/press/elansar/

Quoted from the developer:

Elansar is a point & click adventure game.
The premise of the game is to explore an island and solve puzzles.

Will you uncover the Island’s mystery ?

Elina’s husband is now in danger !
Will you help her to rescue him through Elina’s subconscious mysteries ?

Philia is an adventure game, the sequel to Elansar.
Explore three worlds and solve over 15 puzzles by trying to understand how they work.

***REGION FREE***This game runs on all PAL and NTSC units.

The features
640x480 Highres ResolutionIngame full motion video
360° Panorama (for Philia)
Mouse support

...more than 15 enigmas and puzzle to solve!


Release date: 10th August 2015

TV signal: 480p, RGB cable, S-video, VGA

Re: Elansar & Philia by Hucast & Orion

Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 7:46 am
by Wombat
Nice addition to the Dreamcast library, a genre you hardly see! Will definitely pre-order this game(s) once available! :D

Re: Elansar & Philia by Hucast & Orion

Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 11:16 pm
by Anthony817
Just awesome! Now we need to see Myst ported. I tried to get it done years ago but the guy porting it wasn't ready yet.

WOW 2010! Man it has been a long time!

viewtopic.php?t=2637

http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php ... 07bb593878

http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php ... c&start=30

Last post here on his blog was August of 2014, so don't know if he ever finished porting it. Honestly there are years of posts to go through at this point. 5 whole years.

If anybody can see if he finished it please post here to let me know. I would be willing to make a CDI of it for Dreamcast.

http://clone2727.blogspot.com/

Re: Elansar & Philia by Hucast & Orion

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 3:12 am
by Impulse
This make me think of Myst for sure. Ah Myst... It's been a long while since I've been into point and click games (The Journeyman Project series also comes to mind) but this will be a fresh addition!

Re: Elansar & Philia by Hucast & Orion

Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 3:32 pm
by mazonemayu
pre-orders are now open (at a fair price I must say :p )

http://elansar.hucast.com/

there's also a presskit with artwork & screenshots which can be downloaded here

Re: Elansar & Philia by Hucast & Orion

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 3:44 pm
by Impulse
Awesome thanks mazonemayu. I see they have a video posted too. Appears to be an older video from different platform though.


Re: Elansar & Philia by Hucast & Orion

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:45 pm
by mazonemayu
Yes, I believe it was initially written for the Jaguar, but he decided to release it on the DC instead, so I assume it'll be a port of sorts.

Still, I think this is quite impressive, it was made by a single person after all

Re: Elansar & Philia by Hucast & Orion

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:15 pm
by dark
Both games are actually for sale for the Atari Jaguar (CD), so this should be a port of those, unless there might be enhancements for the DC. Not a bad thing at all, the more games the merrier :)

Re: Elansar & Philia by Hucast & Orion

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:28 am
by hombreimaginario
dark wrote:Both games are actually for sale for the Atari Jaguar (CD), so this should be a port of those, unless there might be enhancements for the DC. Not a bad thing at all, the more games the merrier :)

There were no enhancements for Alice so I guess these will be straight ports too.

While I'm not exactly a fan of Hucast's customer service and, well... their way of doing things, I am happy for Orion.

Re: Elansar & Philia by Hucast & Orion

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 4:29 pm
by jun misugi
Only the resolution is higher ;)