Here's an interesting one, depending on your level of industry geekery. Fantavision was originally a launch title on PS2, a quirky puzzle game all about fireworks. Developed by Japan Studio, it would test your colour-matching and symbol-recognition skills, launching in 2000 to a respectable 72 on Metacritic.
Japan Studio (now defunct), being first-party, meant that Sony Interactive Entertainment still held the IP rights to Fantasvision. Decades pass, and Sony licences it to Japanese developer Cosmo Machia, who promptly developed and recently released Fantavision 202X for PS5 and PSVR2 on 21st February ( gameplay above).
This remade reminder of a bygone age is coming to PC on 27th April, published by Cosmo Machia. It's quite a journey for a humble PS2 launch game, but perhaps not so surprising when we live in a world where Sony itself publishes games on PC. Do you remember the original PS2 release? Did you check out the remake? Light up the comments section below.
[source gematsu.com]
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R.I.P. Japan Studio.
It’s been more than 20 years and I still don’t think I really have the hang of Fantavision. It’s fun, for sure, but half the time I think I’m scoring in spite of myself.
Is the remake worth grabbing for playing without psvr2 or is it best just grabbing the ps2 version on plus ?
Man I really love Fantavision and I'm glad Sony got to licence it out like Sega has been doing for some of its old IP's. I hope Sony does more of this because I think it could really help to improve the output of their first-party line-up on PS5 since it has a big problem with many games being built from a similar mold and coming out in such large intervals between each other
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