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The X Button - Import Roundup with Shin Megami Tensei

I thought that Shantae game was supposed to come to the PS4 as well, but I cannot find any real indication that it is.

Uchikoshi said that this was to give impression that the series have evolved and uses more 3d cinematics, and so that it's more likely to be well-received on the west

Ugh, this line of thinking again. When will Japanese devs realize that pandering to Western aesthetics does not equal to mass appeal and success?

*Claps* Finally a great opinion and not anticipating to how bad it is, sometimes Nintendo fans themselves make me cringe.

Ugh, this line of thinking again. When will Japanese devs realize that pandering to Western aesthetics does not equal to mass appeal and success? .

FalconPunch wrote:

*Claps* Finally a great opinion and not anticipating to how bad it is, sometimes Nintendo fans themselves make me cringe.

Thank you good sir.

If there's one thing I find worse than complainers, it's the people that go out of their way attempting to sweepingly malign them, particularly when their grievances are legitimate. There are reasons most people express their frustration towards Sticker Star and [recently] Color Splash and they go beyond them "just not being like that of Paper Mario 64 and The Thousand Year Door."

Paiprince wrote:

Ugh, this line of thinking again. When will Japanese devs realize that pandering to Western aesthetics does not equal to mass appeal and success? .

You could say the same thing about pandering to the "typical" Japanese VN market. It's well known that the first two ZE games sold poorly in Japan, and it's probably because the ZE games have a mostly adult cast and don't take place in a high school among other things. The irony is that this third game is getting made partly because the first two games were a success outside of Japan.

See, it's so easy to just assume those shallow criteria alone are enough to be considered anathema to Japanese audiences when other games like Biohazard, Gyakuten Saiben and many others are as much of a hit in Japan as it is overseas.

And when top VN's like Baldr Sky, Muramasa and White Album 2 Closing Chapter are in most Japanese fans favorites, then it kinda puts your argument into question as well.

irfanf wrote:

Uchikoshi said that this was to give impression that the series have evolved and uses more 3d cinematics, and so that it's more likely to be well-received on the west

Ugh, this line of thinking again. When will Japanese devs realize that pandering to Western aesthetics does not equal to mass appeal and success? For what it's worth, Uchikoshi's art is more distinctive compared to Tomono's. It just look like Tomono aped Steins;Gate's look and somehow made it bland looking. Blaming it on technical issues sounds like a complete cop out to me.

You're not an economist. Thank God you're not.

Lynx Amali wrote:

The main games actually tell fairly dark and decent coming of age stories, especially Burst/the original. I guess that would require one to look past the gratuitous fanservice the game's have though. I didn't enjoy SV because character arcs weren't balanced. Hopefully, Estival's different in that regard because I really dig the character arcs that the main games have.

"I'd rather masturbate to actual hentai."
~ Jim f*cking Sterling son

NearEasternerJ1 wrote:

You're not an economist. Thank God you're not.

And I suppose you are? Paiprince didn't claim to be an economist. Not sure what your angle is. What's the relevancy?