They are the easiest one to make since you only need an arena and characters movesets, don’t even need to balance it properly since there’s no esports money to be made on it (unless it’s called gundam extreme versus).
There is a long history of video games cash grabbing any IP they get their hands on. Pokemon and the sort are few and far between. Do we need to talk about ET?
My biggest gripe right now is game designers have an incredible platform with mobile devices, that I would havre murdered for when I was kid, and the best they can do is slot machines. There are some great titles for mobile but it’s way overshadowed by the dopamine harvesters. I’ll be dead before they get this shit sorted.
It’s virtually impossible to make money selling mobile games because your average player expects the game itself to be free, and then expect some kind of premium currency.
If you try to charge an actual reasonable price for a game like $15 no one would buy it. But they’ll happily spend $170 on premium currency over the course of a year.
Against those kinds of economic metrics originality and high quality gameplay stands no chance of survival.
I wouldn’t buy it either because mobile devs have a terrible track record of not bothering to update their games to the newest version of the OS, the older the game, the less likely it is they will update it, I lost considerable money many years ago when CAVE shooters weren’t updated to the current (at the time) android version.
Even big ones like square enix had to be almost harassed to update The World Ends With You Solo Remix for newer versions and I think in 2021 capcom just gave up in updating monster hunter freedom unite.
Windows’ relentless backwards compatibility is underrated, but it’s so damn nice I can still play games from 2005 effortlessly. Android has been a shitshow in comparison, as even when mobile gaming wasn’t so shit (Doodle Jump, Angry Birds etc), the whole era has been almost wiped from existence.
I disagree. Yes, peoples expections are warped because of freemium but an indie developer should be able to make plenty of money with a small bit of notoriety. It really comes down to if developers expect capture the entire mobile gaming market they are barking up the wrong tree. They need to build an audience and not let freemium practices get in that space. I grew up on the snes and I would put those games head to head against any PS5 AAA game. Sure the PS5 game may be a visual spectical and have all sorts of complexity but the Nintendo developers had to do more with less. End of the day you could have the same amount of engagement with a cheaper to make product and we would all be better for it. Look at deadcells. Look a hollow knight. I know these are platformers but they are best in class and their budgets can’t be extraordinary.
Maybe I’m the outlier here, but if I’m a big enough fanboy of a certain anime, I don’t mind a semi-crappy video game port that let’s me further bask in that universe. Even moreso if the game’s throwing out extra new lore or good fanservice at me.
Plus there was always something oddly charming about clunky PS2-era licensed anime games to me, although I admit nostalgia may be influencing my perspective there.
And this is coming from someone who played through both PS2 Eureka Seven games to completion.
Yeah, I could never in good conscience recommend the first Attack on Titan game they made as an actual game. But if you’re a fan? It’s a fucking blast and I loved it. There’s not as high of a bar to clear. Same with Dragonball Xenoverse. It’s fun, but not incredibly good.
Okay but really, why are they all boring 3D fighters that have barely changed since the PS2 era?
Scope.
It is dead easy to make a 1v1 fighting game. I’m not sure any genre has fewer moving parts. Making a good one is tough as nails, but slapping together a prototype is a few steps above push-button-move-guy, and the technical parts are straightforward so long as you know how state machines work.
Characters are also front-and-center. If a game only exists because people recognize the series, characters are often the only part that matters. Sometimes there’s locations you have to hit. Maybe there’s a plot you have to mirror. But none of the Harry Potter games at the height of its popularity were going to feature quidditch at Hogwarts while starring Nigel, Wendy, and Claude. Kids especially want to play as the protagonist.
This is the same reason every licensed game from 1985 to 1995 was some miserable sidescroller until proven otherwise. That’s what was easy to do. Animate one guy well (relatively speaking), slap him in a dozen levels scattered with half a dozen trite references, and invent enemies by pulling words out of a hat. Bouncing… vacuum cleaner? Sure, put it in the level that’s one mile-long hotel room. There was maybe a half-second of those two things in the movie.
At least modern games don’t have to flanderize the shit out of your guy by picking some event that happened once and turning that into their whole deal. Bruce Willis beaned someone with a baseball? You throw baseballs exclusively, the way Mario chucks fireballs. Nah - all the weird shit happening in a Jujutsu Kaisen game is presumably a decent representation of all the weird shit happening in Jujutsu Kaisen.
The results are awful because some studio with no relevant experience was given a list of demands, a short deadline, and an insulting budget. Oh, sorry: spoilers for most of episodes of Wha Happun.
Honestly most anime games were hot garbage. Kinda like games based on movies.
Dragon Ball Z Kakarot was incredible though. And was really wishing it kicked off a revolution, but nope. One Piece pirate warrior series is only fun because it’s just Dynasty Warriors with a anime reskinning.
I found it kinda funny when they gave fighter z and kakarot as examples of DBZ games that broke that mold when fighter z is a fighting game and kakarot was an adventure game that followed the original story. Don’t get me wrong, I loved kakarot (because it was the my first time going through the whole DBZ story), but Xenoverse would have been a better example IMO because it did break the mold more (it does still focus on the original story, but you’re a part of a time patrol whose job it is to basically provide help to the original heroes because villains are trying to change the original story).
I remeber enjoying the Naruto gekitou ninja taisen games on gamecube. Everything since then has been in the ultimate ninja storm arena fighter format and is garbage.
It’s really baffling how there still isn’t a single good One Piece fighting game. Burning Blood was terrible, and the Grand Battle games are meh and 20 years old.
Burning Blood was a little jank, but no less fun for it. I loved the interactions it had between charachters (sanji v any woman) and some moves are just straight up unfair (kumas vacation) which is just fun for this game for some reason. Its the best one to come out so far though
Though, somehow the golden episodes they made later were oddly weak? But the core anime is actually the best anime adaptation of a story-heavy game I can think of.
MAYBE the Tales of Symphonia anime, if you can find that anywhere.
I don’t watch a ton of anime, but it’s certainly the best I’ve seen (or heard of, for that matter). The recent Castlevania is good too, but I don’t even know if that counts?
But seriously, I wasn’t aware that there was a TWEWY anime… I have a friend that doesn’t play games and when I want to share her videogame stuff we do it with these adaptations…
So far we have watched Ace Attorney (it was okay) and have Nier Automata on the list…
Ace attorney anime was kinda ass sweat though and vastly inferior to the games, I just wished they continued using the same japanese voice for naruhodo/phoenix mayoi/Maya for the main games as they did for the Layton crossover. It was the live action movie actors that voiced them in the crossover IIRC and it was an excellent job that felt way more natural than generic male anime voice #27 and generic female anime voice #13
In some ways I don’t fault them for the bits that made it terrible - a visual novel can be much slower and build up tension, but the anime has to blurt out the entire mystery and set of contradictions at record pace.
“Well, I’ve been listening to the prosecution’s argument for a good twelve seconds, and I’m convinced. This court finds the defendant…”
Yeah, it definitely was a downgrade, although we enjoyed some bits, perhaps I did more because I had the games fresh, and that helped me to give her more context about some scenes that deserved better (like the very amazing Gumshoe moment of case 3).
But seriously, I wasn’t aware that there was a TWEWY anime…
I absolutely love the games, and the anime is just… Bad. I couldn’t stomache watching more than the first two episodes. I suppose there’s the off chance it “gets good”, but somehow they took a game that has one of the most bangin’ soundtracks of its era and made an anime that is mostly talking with basically no music and little to no ambiance. The flair and style is just completely absent in a franchise that literally built game mechanics around style.
Show her the P4 anime. It’s really, really good. It makes me wonder how the P5 anime shit the bed so hard. I imagine the answer is different studios, but I haven’t really looked into it.
Damn, well, I think I’m gonna give it a chance to TWEWY anime regardless, I mean, I’m very forgiving because I automatically tag all these adaptations as “game is 1000 better” lol.
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