I think I am a few days late with this news, but well, better late than never. Over at Tokyo Game Show 2011, NHN Japan, publisher for Dragon Nest Japan, revealed its new cloud system for the game, titled “G Cloud”. In a nutshell, a cloud system basically means that the game will run through the game servers and streamed to devices, without the devices needing the required hardware specs (high end graphics card, high RAM etc).

The mantra and slogan behind this system is “No Install’, “No Spec” and “No Waste”, which you can see below from a signboard shown at the press conference.

With this presentation, we can see that Dragon Nest is running on Android tablets and even netbooks with no discrete graphic cards. What’s more, no installation of the game client is needed on these devices! Perhaps the only concern will be a stable connection. But still, with cloud gaming the talk of the town even in the West, this service looks very promising!

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He might not look it at a glance, but Namco Sound Team member Go Shiina — best known for his work on Mr. Driller, Tales of Legendia, and Ace Combat — is obsessed with food. A slim man whose Cloud Strife-like mop of bleached hair adds several inches to his lanky height, Shiina says he looks to food to inspire his compositions.

As an example, he told me about his approach to writing the music for Gods Eater’s snow temple areas. For those dungeons, he spent time “researching” Taiwanese shaved ice desserts.

“Taiwanese shaved ice is different than Japanese shaved ice,” he says. “The Japanese version uses normal ice, so it has a sharp, stinging quality to it. In Taiwan, they use frozen condensed milk, so it feels softer and sweeter. And they add fruit to it, so it has a fuller texture and flavor.

“The snow areas in Gods Eater are full of Japanese-style temples, so I didn’t want to use Japanese shaved ice for inspiration. That would have been predictable and cheesy. Instead, I used a combination. When you’re in battle, the feel should be like Japanese ice — sharp and harsh. But outside of battle, when you’re just exploring, I wanted it to feel like Taiwanese ice: softer and less intense.”

Shiina most recently contributed the score for the Ace Combat trailer Namco played at Nintendo’s recent 3DS press conference. For that bombastic, film-like orchestral track, Shiina jokes that he used fast food as inspiration for that particular piece.

“I had to put it together in a hurry,” explains.

Stay tuned for our full profile on this prolific composer, which will explore further insights into the creative impact of food, spreadsheets, and Christina Ricci.

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So, Tokyo Game Show 2011 is in full gear over the past few days, but there was only a handful of MMORPGs in the show. TERA Japan, which went into the commercial phase recently, was no doubt present to push for more players after its initial success. 2 different packages were available and given to visitors of the game’s booth, but I think there were some requirements before they can be gotten.

Both packages are basically the same, except that one of it has a 300-piece puzzle while the other has a Steelseries mouse with TERA’s game logo simply printed on it. Each package also has a code for a 3-day free trail period without the need to register for an actual account.

According to some bloggers, there is actually more merchandise given out! There is a series of badges, some picture cards with profiles of each race at the back, a mousepad and the already mentioned retail game packages. The badges and stuff were actually given out before at the official release press conference back in July, it seems there were spares! Awesome stuff!

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One of the most exciting games at this year’s Tokyo Game Show has been Project Draco, an on-rails Kinect shooter that looks a lot like Panzer Dragoon, but with more colorful visuals and light RPG/dragon breeding aspects. That’s no coincidence, since director Yukio Futatsugi (pictured, above left) and many of the other members of the development team Grounding Inc. used to work on the Panzer Dragoon series.

But I started to get a bit concerned when I heard the game would only work via Kinect controls, and not offer support for a regular 360 control pad. Another recent on-rails shooter, Child of Eden, managed to do both, so I figured I’d get Futatsugi’s take. I mentioned to him that it didn’t seem like there were things in the game that couldn’t be done with a controller, to which he replied:

“You’re right — it probably could be done physically on a controller if you tried. But that would totally throw off the game balance, difficulty… all that stuff. And it’s not just difficulty and game balance in that sense, but it’s also because all of the game decisions and level designs have been made from the ground up to be able to be enjoyed on Kinect. We have no idea if would be fun if you played on a controller — we couldn’t make any guarantees there. I’m sure really dedicated Panzer fans want to play on a controller, so I understand that feeling, but if I were to make a controller game it probably wouldn’t be this game.”

Taking that a step further, he explained that certain features like the camera work in the game, have been designed for Kinect in a way that would make less sense if you played on a controller. “Like for example, in the Panzer Dragoon series if you pressed the left or right trigger buttons, you could face anywhere you wanted,” he said. “We cut that feature specifically because it doesn’t work on Kinect.”

“Also, because of the control scheme paradigm shift, it’s obvious that how we handle the twitch skills of a shooter, and the difficulty that comes from that, is different because the controls are completely different,” he continued. “So in order to mitigate that, we decided to add in an RPG/dragon raising layer to make the game scalable in difficulty without having to rely on controller twitch.”

To be fair, comparing Project Draco to Child of Eden is complicated, because Draco will be a moderately-priced Xbox Live Arcade game whereas Child of Eden was a full-priced retail release, so Grounding — which currently consists of around 15 people — doesn’t necessarily have the same budget and resources that Q Entertainment did.

To finish our conversation on the topic, I asked Futatsugi if he could, it he would want to make Draco using the Panzer Dragoon license (which Sega still owns). “Not really,” he replied, “I guess because all the things that I wanted to do with Panzer I did already. So I’m not really fixated on that game so much anymore. If for example, I was tasked with a different job of making a Panzer Dragoon sequel, then I probably wouldn’t even do it on Kinect. So that I would enjoy doing on its own, but it’s a different thing.”

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