Half-Minute Hero no longer out today

By Robert Purchese Published 12 February, 2010

Unique PSP game pulled at last minute.

Inventive PSP RPG Half-Minute Hero has slipped to next Friday.

Rising Star was supposed to deliver the game today, and apologised on Twitter for the "302400 half-minute" delay.

Half-Minute Hero has a familiar role-playing tale broken into 30-second gameplay chunks. The result is frantic and impossible to put down.

Our Half-Minute Hero review tells the whole story.

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Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (28) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • charliemouse #1 2 years ago

    Damnittohell. That ws suposed to be my poorly not getting out of bed game tomorrow.

    Looks like I'll finally get around to finishing 385/2 days.

  • tomjoadsghost #2 2 years ago

    Surprised the news has taken this long to be confirmed, I've certainly had a flurry of emails from amazon changing the date forward and back and forward again.

    Its still £12.99 there if anyones sitting on the fence btw.

  • myiagros #3 2 years ago

    £12.99!!! SOLD!!!

    I have been interested in tis since i saw the first video, for £13 it's definately worth a punt. cheers tomjoadsghost.

  • jonsaan #4 2 years ago

    EG. Can you find out when the PSN release is please. Pleasey?!

  • Bealsy #5 2 years ago

    I'd have thought it would have been pulled at the last half a minute. That would have been funny.

  • patch #6 2 years ago

    So 302400 half minutes is one week? My maths must suck as I get 105 days :S

  • linksdad #7 2 years ago

    It was released shortly for 30 seconds. That was your window of opportunity, as the title suggests. If you missed it tough...

  • ignatiusjreilly #8 2 years ago

    There's a joke about half-minute heroes and premature releases in here somewhere, but I can't seem to find it.

  • jellyhead #9 2 years ago

    Who's distributing it?

  • rprince #10 2 years ago

    @patch: I guess there must have been a bug in their math library, hence the delay :D

  • InternetRed #11 2 years ago

    Gonna say, I had it pre-ordered yesterday after finishing the demos for the nth time, and it was 19th of feb then.

  • toythatkills #12 2 years ago

    302400=wrong. Lolz.

  • Toothball #13 2 years ago

    @jonsaan

    I also need to know if there's going to be a PSN release. I'd really like to buy this but I need it downloadable.

  • VicViper #14 2 years ago

    this reminded me that this was coming out, nearly forgot. Pre-order made.

  • kosigan #15 2 years ago

    @toythatkills - It's all very well saying they're wrong, but without backing it up with a right answer, what's the point? The correct answer is 20160 (7 days x 24 hours x 60 minutes x 2 half-minutes). What he seems to have done is (7 days x 24 hours x 60 minutes x 60 seconds) / 2, giving the number of 2-second intervals in 7 days.

  • Kay #16 2 years ago

    @Toothball - it's definitely coming out on PSN (it was out in the US store at the same time as the UMD release), just a question of when.

  • HiddenAway #17 2 years ago

    *sigh*

    302400 half minutes (30 seconds)

    So, 302400 x 2 = 604800 minutes (60 seconds)

    604800 divided by 60 = 10080 minutes

    10080 divided by 60 = 168 hours

    168 divided by 24 = 7 days = 1 week = maths fails (obviously).
    Edited by HiddenAway at 12/02/10 @ 19:19

  • kosigan #18 2 years ago

    "So, 302400 x 2 = 604800 minutes (60 seconds)
    604800 divided by 60 = 10080 minutes"

    @HiddenAway - go to the bottom of the class. How can 604800 minutes divided by 60 be 10080 minutes?
    There are 7 days in a week, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute. This makes for 604,800 seconds in a week. Divide this by 30 to get the number of 30-second intervals in week and you get... 20160!

  • HiddenAway #19 2 years ago

    Ugh, you're right. It's Friday and I'm obviously stupid :p

    /puts dunce cap on

  • Toothball #20 2 years ago

    @Kay

    That's a nice thought, but sadly the presence of a game on the US PSN isn't a great way to tell if it's coming to Europe. I've been waiting over two years for them to add Wild Arms to the Euro store but nothing has come from that. The Euro store is a bit useless really.

  • RandomTerrain #21 2 years ago

    Will have to pick this up at some point, the demo on PSN was really good fun.

  • BBIAJ #22 2 years ago

    It's also available from HMV.com for £12.99 as well, minus the £1.99 P+P that Amazon usually adds to everything.

  • InternetRed #23 2 years ago

    Amazon add P&P? I thought orders now over £5 got free postage? When I pre-ordered mine from Amazon, I got free postage.

  • Caspar_Esq. #24 2 years ago

    This is the only game I have ever wanted to play on the PSP. Would pray for a port but I doubt its going to happen.

  • rprince #25 2 years ago

    @BBIAJ: Amazon have had free delivery on orders over £5 for years now. You just have to choose it. It auto selects 1st class postage, but you need to select "Free Super Saver Delivery" before you click "Complete Order"...

  • My1stLoveJak #26 2 years ago

    I already have this game in Canada! It was a first day purchase...I'm such a sucker for anything that I consider to be "retro", like Megaman 9, Retro Game Challenge, Little Big Planet, New Super Mario Bros...and this game!

    Actually, the demos sold me on this game, I had a lot of fun playing the demo levels

  • BBIAJ #27 2 years ago

    @rprince: I know about Amazon's Super Saver Free Delivery, that's why I don't use it!

    Why would I want to wait 3 to 5 business days for something to get to me, when GAME can get a game to me overnight for free? HMV and Zavvi can do two days free P P, and even Gameplay's 1st Class is only 99p.

    That's why I only ever go with Amazon if they're doing something exclusive, or it's a hard to get item from Marketplace.

    Maybe it's just me, but I actually like to have my game either on or before the release date, not up to a week later, otherwise I may as well just go to the shop on day of release.

    Royal Fail are bad enough at the best of times, without letting extended delivery times add to my woes.

  • jonsaan #28 2 years ago

    Toothball/ wild Arms XF has been on the EU store for a long time.