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September 29, 2005

The counter page for Innocent Life hit 0 today, but MMV's web 
site was not functioning correctly ^^; The counter stopped at 1 
second and attempted to forward to the next page at 8:00 am (my 
time) but the web site wasn't accepting connections. 

A few hours later MMV fixed their site and launched the official 
sites for Innocent Life and Sprite Station For Girl. The Sprite 
Station page is just a splash page for now, but HM-IL page has a 
Flash movie with the names of the producers appearing. *Then* it 
goes to a splash page ;)

It is interesting to note that the team in charge of making IL, 
Arte Piazza, is the same folks who worked on Dragon Quest 7, 
Dragon Quest 4, and Dragon Quest 3. I should finish my game of 
DQ7 one of these days... ^^;; Dragon Quest is known as Dragon 
Warrior outside of Japan, until DQ8 is released in English on 
November 22 in North America. The new game will drop "warrior" 
and keep "quest", as it should.

Anyhow, here are the URLs to the sites if you're curious:

Innocent Life:
http://www.mmv-i.net/game/psp/innocent_life/

Arte Piazza:
http://www.artepiazza.com

Sprite Station for Girl:
http://www.bokumono.com/series/corosute_girl/

Since Arte Piazza is working on Innocent Life, it doesn't look 
like Igusa Matsuyama is involved :( I'm sure our favorite HM 
designer is busy working on the Girl version of SS instead ^^ 
According to his blog site he has been working on more 
illustrations for the latest HMDS strategy guide.


Until next time!


- How long should a horse's legs be?
-- Long enough to reach the ground!