One of the most exciting games at this year’s Tokyo Game Show has been Project Draco, an on-rails Kinect shooter that looks a lot like Panzer Dragoon, but with more colorful visuals and light RPG/dragon breeding aspects. That’s no coincidence, since director Yukio Futatsugi (pictured, above left) and many of the other members of the development team Grounding Inc. used to work on the Panzer Dragoon series.
But I started to get a bit concerned when I heard the game would only work via Kinect controls, and not offer support for a regular 360 control pad. Another recent on-rails shooter, Child of Eden, managed to do both, so I figured I’d get Futatsugi’s take. I mentioned to him that it didn’t seem like there were things in the game that couldn’t be done with a controller, to which he replied:
