Sudeki

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Description

Set in a world where realms of dark and light co-exist on top of each other, Queen Luscia of Haskillia is troubled by invasions of the Aklorians. Four heroes with unique abilities: the swordsman Tal, sorceress Ailish, the shape-shifting huntress Buki and the powerful Elco, combine their forces to aid the queen while they make their way through the struggle between dark and light.

You control the four characters as a team in a full 3D world with a third person view. Sudeki innovates through the use of realtime fighting scenes with combos, ranged attacks, evasion, the use of shields and Matrix-style effects including bullet-time. The characters are able to combine their forces to produce super-strike attacks. As usual, you can gain skills, spells and weapons to upgrade and add to as you go along and the plot is full of surprising interventions, betrayal and dangerous foes.

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Alternate Titles

• "魔幻战士" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "Symphony of Light" -- Working title

Part of the Following Groups

• Console Generation Exclusives: Xbox
• Software Pyramide releases

User Reviews

A waste of time. Shows potential in so many areas, but little good ever comes of it.

Xbox

kbmb (435)

Critic Reviews

PC Powerplay	Windows	Apr, 2005	85 out of 100	85
Gamesmania.de	Xbox	Sep 01, 2004	85 out of 100	85
IGN	Xbox	Jul 20, 2004	7.8 out of 10	78
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Xbox	Oct, 2004	73 out of 100	73
GameStar (Germany)	Windows	Apr, 2005	71 out of 100	71
GameSpot	Xbox	Jul 26, 2004	6.5 out of 10	65
PC Zone	Windows	Apr 18, 2005	6.2 out of 10	62
Jeuxvideo.com	Windows	May 13, 2005	11 out of 20	55
Gamezine	Xbox	Aug 08, 2004	10 out of 20	50
Factornews	Xbox	Sep 28, 2004	5 out of 10	50

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Trivia

Development

The game was first titled Symphony of Light and it was in development for the Dreamcast. Around 1999, Climax announced they changed course for a release on the upcoming Playstation 2. It would allow for four players to participate simultaneously. As the title clashed with an existing game series, ‘Suteki’ was suggested, being the Japanese for 'beautiful, cool, gorgeous'. In the end, it became Sudeki.

It's also funny to know that if you would translate the English word 'steak' into a Japanese katakana word through the linguistic rules, you end up with 'suteki' as well.

Inaccuracies

In Transentia, in the Research Center Dungeon, The party splits up. When Ailish leaves she is wearing her level 3 armor. Yet if you look at her after she leaves, you will notice she is wearing her level 1 armor. And since it is impossible not to have her third level armor and you cannot not re-equip lower level stuff this is clearly a mistake.

Intro

Tom Baker does the voice-acting for the opening FMV sequence (for which he is uncredited in the game).

Awards

• GameSpy
  • 2004 – The Mushmouth Award for Most Mispronounced Title of the Year (Xbox)

Information also contributed by Link Ramza and MasterMegid

Related Web Sites

• Sudeki (Official website (Windows version))
• Xbox - Sudeki (Xbox information page about the game.)