Bloodlines was not a diet port. It was an original. Given what we had to do and the timeframe we had (9 months) we had to go from zero to finished game and it was a terrific challenge. We had no original source code so everything you see, including the mobile version of parkour, all the game systems, complete pipeline from Maya had to be designed and built as well as getting a game finished. I truly believe the project was a AAA endeavour but with a AA budget and timeframe. Assassin's Creed, the original game has a much larger scope but also a much larger team and a four year development time. Bloodlines if only given an additional months to a year could have been outstanding. I'm still very proud of the accomplishment of our team given our constraints.
As someone involved in the game production, you saw all the hard work and miracles that happened. It's your child and you love it even if it's imperfect. As audience, I compare this game to a different one, without any regard to the constrains you had. Heck, I'll give your game a bad score simply because I don't like the genre, in which case there's absolutely nothing you could've done to improve my experience.
I just grabbed my PSP and took a look at the save file of Bloodlines. It says "Percentage completed: 0", which is super strange, because I distinctly remember playing the game as a kid when visiting my aunt. Maybe I actually enjoyed the game, but the savefile got fucked, I got angry, and never played it again? My memories are hazy, but now that I focus, I do remember enjoying it, but not much beyond that.
BTW when looking at the save files, what strikes me is how few games I actually played. To me it seems like there were lots of them, but actually no, I just spent lots of time playing same games.
I'm impressed! Bloodlines was the only AC I've ever finished completely, and even though the story was odd at some points, I found the gameplay and the graphics to be spot on for the platform. Very enjoyable for teenager me back then, and still holds up quite well. Doing this in 9 months... Just wow.
been long time but I recall playing it on PSP, ( before playing the AC game before though ) I have pretty good memories, and it was one of the best games I played on PSP for sure.
I think maybe Sony created too high expectations with PSP.
