You guys are the best! Thanks for posting these blogs! Will there be awesome artbooks for Vanquish like there was for Bayonetta? I just got my Eyes Of Bayonetta book in the mail last week! Amazing!

I really like stuff that transforms. I'm almost sad that there is no robot dog or fem-bot partner now.

It's really disappointing to see the Dog and the Android canned.

They're both awesome ideas, it would have made the game a lot more innovative.

As for the DLC suggestions, It wouldn't work. Because you need to re-design the gameplay and level design to fit with the addition of the dog or android.

I think the Female Android is inspired from Space Pirate Cobra.

Awesome. A Shadow Dancer gameplay in Vanquish would be epic. It is sad to see the dog go … hopefully it will be considered for the future.

I like the idea but I think if you made it look like a Cerberus, it will hold a greater impression

the dog is a reference con Friender, Casshern's robot dog. what a pity that it was cut from the game, because a love casshern.

It is almost always interesting to get a look into the development process and see how things unfold. At this juncture I have a couple of questions:

*in an earlier entry, it was mentioned that a black version of Sam's suit had been considered, but eventually dropped. Would it be possible for this to return as an unlockable 'item'? The current design, done in black with dark-blue accents and blood-red visor, would look hella cool.

*it is pleasing to see that the English site is finally blossoming… but it concerns me that it lags in terms of content with respect to its Japanese mirror. This is not the only game project where this happens, and I am curious as to why it is so.

Hmm i'm glad they ditched the female android concept since it's seems to be an overly common theme in at least 3 games i can think of off hand, konami's quantum (forgot the second part of the name), namco's enslaved and namco's knights contract all feature female partners, konami's game you can throw the partner similar to the description of the boomerang android but not as cool lol… and i'm not sure how much game it would add but it would be a lot of extra work for mostly visual impact only.

I am tickled by the FRIENDSTER reference but also seems to be more visual gain and not much gameplay gain, all of the functionality (or at least most of it) could be done with regular weapons…

So those tough decisions to cut things were smart decisions especially if you have a limited budget…

I would like know how you guys come up with the names of armor and bosses and things?

But anyway, nice ARSS!

pretty intriguing. I hope the game ends up being good, but with PG it seems you can't go wrong.

the design is awesome

hope the dog robot could be there somehow

It's a shame to have canned the dog so early. I kinda like the idea.

A bit tired of the 'Army of One' concept.

Oh well, who knows, maybe they'll work something out.

Wow. I'm really upset that the dog isn't in the game now =[. The robot dog should definitely be DLC. I would ABSOLUTELY buy it.