For those still reeling (or laughing hysterically) over the unfortunate news surrounding the
Valis series and its clearly unsafe-for-work
descent into porn, here's some shred of comfort: last year, Telenet made a
Valis title for mobile phones. It's a side-scroller very much in the style of the 16-bit
Valis games, with a gallery of all the outfits Yuko wore during the franchise's more pleasant days. It probably wasn't much of a hit, otherwise Telenet would've made another one instead of pimping out the
Valis name to a porn developer.
Cute and innocuous, the portable
Valis: The Phantasm Soldier's
homepage shows no signs of tentacles, violently coercive lesbian trysts, or horribly misplaced swords. Taking the current advancements of Japanese cell phones into account, I do think this could be a decent game.
But I also think that we should never, ever trust Telenet again.