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LinkTSwordmaster
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This is also the second time Crimson Butterfly has been remade. They released a version of it on the Wii that was absolute horror perfection of the highest caliber. I'd dare say the Wii Crimson Butterfly is the most scariest, hands-down master-crafted horror game ever made.
A lot of the extra lenses come from the Wii outings. It's my hope that they haven't cut any of the extra content the Wii version got, as it was a fairly meaty game too. Silent Hill 2's remake landed pretty well but it definitely has some gameplay/combat balance problems. I'm itching to day-1 100% this new release of Crimson Butterfly, but if at any point it feels lesser than a Wii game of all things, I don't think I'm going to ever find my faith in humanity again - they could have just ported it like they did with Mask and Maiden and that's all I'd need to die happily. This is the ONE remake that NEEDS to be everything and more, just like it was on the Wii, and it has some BIIIIIIG shoes to fill. |
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CreativelyFwrd
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I always wince a bit when I hear people say were in a Golden Age for <game> and it's always people using remakes and remasters of games I've already played rather than new stuff.
A Famitsu interview already confirmed all the Deep Crimson Butterflies content will not be present so no Haunted House mode or the added endings (Frozen Butterfly, Shadow Festival, etc) or anything else from the Wii version. Even some of the base costumes have been removed or altered so it looks like this will have much less content than the original let alone the Wii version. |
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Arale Kurashiki
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Yeah, like, the PS2 alone would already constitute an unmatched golden age for survival horror, and there's tons of true classics on surrounding consoles too - I think it's pretty self-evident that the age that gave us the original Silent Hill games, the Siren series, Rule of Rose, Kuon, the Echo Night series, Haunting Ground, the Clock Tower series, Gregory Horror Show, Fatal Frame 1-4, Illbleed, Enemy Zero, D2, and take your pick of the Resident Evils that are to your particular fancy, was a serious golden age of true innovation and variety. That's supposed to be rivaled by what, Bloober Team making a new version of Silent Hill 2 with over the shoulder combat? Not even necessarily dunking on these games - I do respect the Resident Evil remakes for being total reimaginings headed by staff who have been with the series the whole time. And there are a lot of indie survival horror games that look awesome. But I'd kill to go back to a time when every JP dev was giving their own crazy unique take on this genre with full confidence in creating something that nobody's ever seen before. (And also no white dot interactables, minimalistic corner minimaps, objective reminders, that freaking thing where you have to shimmy in a narrow space that every single game does now, etc...) |
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Mizlude
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I don't think we'll ever see a true return to a golden age of anything anymore just because the market is so different now that the conditions will never line up again. Games need to sell a lot more to be profitable now so modest or low selling games can't be profitable enough to be sustainable. The original release of Fatal Frame 2 selling only something like 30,000 copies in it's first week and still going on to be profitable enough to make multiple more sequels isn't a thing anymore. 30,000 now is a complete failure for anything short of a shoestring budget indie game. And unfortunately a lot of companies that own these IPs do not want to make indie games where these could still be profitable as is without having to be changed. There's also the fact that indie horror is kind of it's own thing now with all those games like Five Nights at Freddys or Poppy's Playtime. Would the indie horror scene even accept these kind of games or would they simply change which games they were basing the new ones on. So you get a new Fatal Frame but now it's modeled after Five NIghts at Freddy's because that's what indie horror is now where as a new AAA one will be over-the-shoulder shooter like the REmakes. A "pick your poison" type situation, maybe. |
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