Forum - View topicINTEREST: Fan-Made Touhou Super Smash Battles Game Reaches Crowdfunding Goal
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EnigmaticSky
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Super Copyright Infringement Brothers.
Also if you mod your Wii you can already put custom characters and whatnot into brawl, so it seems unnecessary (you may be familiar with Project M, but there are far more individual characters, stages, etc fans have made over the years). Regardless good luck to them. It looks fun and the guys seem cool. |
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Mr. Oshawott
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Congratulations for this Touhou project reaching its goal.
I hope the development goes smoothly- Touhou Super Smash Battles seems quite an exciting title to watch. |
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Tomibiki
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I don't think I can vomit any harder.
Seriously, I get Touhou let's fans do whatever they want with the I.P. (or at least used to?) but did this really need crowdfunding? On top of that they're boasting that this game will be so balanced that every character is tournament viable...that's just asking for trouble lol. |
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JTMaster
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Well if they want to finish the game within a year instead of several years, get better hardware and software to develop and improve it, and be able to hire animators to help and also hire voice actors, then yes this needed crowdfunding. Also what is wrong with trying to balance characters? And just a heads up to those that think this, no the Smash Bros game style is not trademarked. There are several things made by Nintendo that the game styles are not trade marked. Only if they do certain things could they violate the copyright. I for one think its great that they want to combine two of their favorite things into one. And also its amazing to see a Western made Touhou Indie game. |
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JTMaster
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It's not copyright actually. Nobody owns the rights to the Smash Bros. style game. Also, you can only mod so much. They are putting completely different abilities and move sets into this, some of which even Smash Bros. could kind of use. They are also making a story mode and many other things centered around it as well as trying to include voices for all the characters in both battle and story. I seriously doubt mods could allow you to do that in Project M. The Japanese people seem to be responding to this project very positively. I don't know why everyone else seems so dang skeptical about everything or complain about the animation, etc. epecially when it is a game in early development. I mean seriously this project got started up in August 2014 and with only 3 guys working on this, 2 of which who are animators, I think they have done a dang good job thus far. |
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Primus
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If this game runs into legal hotwater, I imagine it'll be from the Touhou people rather than Nintendo. At worst, I suspect Nintendo would ask for a name change. The Touhou people could just shut this game down.
Touhou isn't public domain and the developers of this game didn't create or license it. Yes, there are tonnes of officially sanctioned Touhou fan games, but they must follow specific stipulations. The developers behind this game have launched a crowdfunding campaign and discussed console ambitions without consulting the people that own the IP. There are no Touhou games on consoles right now. Even cameos are few and far between, with the limited inclusions being treated as an event. Touhou fan games are coming to consoles in the future, the issue is that those got approval from ZUN and are for PS Vita and PS4. Wii U isn't a PlayStation platform. Given Sony felt that Touhou was important enough to announce during their TGS presentation, I'm going to assume they wouldn't be pleased with a Wii U game slipping through the cracks. |
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enurtsol
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On that page, it says:
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Primus
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Some of those stipulations disagree with that:
animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-02-14/tohou-project-creator-restricts-commercial-works-anime ZUN's been against overseas downloads and content on console marketplaces in the past. This game is developed in the west and the Indiegogo only mentions digital downloads ... That's not to say he couldn't change his mind, as he clearly has in some regard, or else the Sony titles wouldn't exist. But the devs of this project launched the Indiegogo campaign and talked about Wii U before getting a response from ZUN. |
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Suzy J Webber
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If that's true then that's real scummy behavior on their part |
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JTMaster
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They haven't discussed it yet. They only mentioned they would like to if they get the ok from ZUN to do so. Also they sent him another email just the other day with the link to the trailer included to see if they can finally get a response from him. This project's secondary purpose is to show ZUN just how much people would like a Touhou game in the West and that they are willing to support this. They can do nothing until he gives the ok really, but if the project gets cancelled then everybody gets their money back anyways. |
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Primus
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They got a response back from ZUN: the crowdfunding campaign has been cancelled and he's requesting no digital releases on storefronts like the Wii U eShop and Steam but the game will still come out.
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