ZOE needs more tearjerker
I hate to say it... but storywise... I kinda preffered ZOE 1 and the Idolo movie.
Those two pieces of content felt so true to their franchise that both of them managed to affect me emotionally rather than the "oh yeh, I am GOD NOW!"
ZOE 2 was nice and so was Dolores i, but to be honest, ZOE 1 and Idolo had the "dark future feeling" that truly suits the ZONE OF THE ENDERS title.
ZOE 2 was wonderful, beautiful, outright the best piece of art Hideo Kojima has ever given us(seriously, his Ps3 games are just ps2 graphics with additional bump mapping and shaders).
However, as much as anime-styled ZOE 2 was, its story totally broke character.
In comparison to ZOE 1, 2nd runner was almost a "My Little Pony" paradise with infinite power, Godly control of the world around you, and no filler missions(thank God).
The first thing I saw of ZOE was this cover:
The star-lit background, the rusty-looking mech(it's missing 23% of Jehuty's detail, and has about 12% made-up detail of Jehuty).
That's what I originally wanted. It's BEAUTIFUL! I cry inside my mind every time I look at it.
Though let's be honest here: ZOE 1 practically was a failure gamewise:
*filler missions barely coherent to the plot
*repetitive fights
*weird map music in some levels[although most of the levels had good music[ (the town levels had the worst)
However, if Hideo Kojima was nice enough to perhaps make a CG animated movie of Zone Of The Enders 1 without the extra mission filler crap, I think that movie would be hella successful in Japan and maybe even in the US.
Recently with hollywood's embracing of high-detail mechs(dreamworks's Transformers) and the upcoming Neon Genesis Evangelion movie ALSO done by dreamworks, will be a boastful success.
A full CG animated movie of ZOE 1 would be as successful as Final Fantasy: Advent Children.
But umm... yes...
With the graphical power and shaders of the next-gen consoles, I'd like to see darker and somewhat realistic graphics for the mechs while maintaining ZOE 2's animated character cutscenes. At least a slightly darker story behind it, maybe.
ZOE 3 is held as a promise and these crazy Jehuty dolls are getting me hopeful.
I'm going to buy the Jehuty Revotech action figure/doll next week.
I need that model so that I can improve ZOEOA jehuty's detail a bit on my spare time.