If it was money thing, couldn’t he just say “I needed as much coin as I could scrape up to get Sora from Disney” like he basically said with the last wave of DLC characters?
Maybe it’s my nostalgia glasses, but this is something I actually believe coming from Sakurai. The man almost hates useless ads as much as Lemmy users.
Nintendo first party IP alone can carry them through, not to mention the national pride Japan has towards their success. Western Sales are nice, but I don’t think they put as much attention into them.
Man, I must have picked up BotW at the exact right time, because I started playing it when Covid lockdowns started and the whole “solo in the face of a world altering event” aspect really got to me.
I don’t know if I would have enjoyed it before or after, even though I know many people did.
Twilight Princess slaps tho, and I’ll fight anyone that disrespects it.
Yes the Ken romance is optional, you can max it without romancing him. But I think most of the playebase is usually disturbed at the fact that dating the 10 year old orphan is an option at all. I’ve spoke with a few Japanese fans about it, and while they’re more mild about the criticism, apparently it was still a bit “wtf” to some of them too.
But in the later games YOU get to be the adolescent dating an adult, so…uh…yay? I joke to my friends that Kenji from Persona 3 directed Persona 4 and 5.
But have fun! Kotone/FemC is great, I played her as my new game+ when I first played P3P, and it honestly made NG+ less of a chore because of how different her personality is compared to Makoto/MC. And her social links are great too (except…you know…)
The “dual protag” experience of Persona 2 and 3 is honestly so underappreciated imo. But Altus won’t do it anymore. I’m not bitter about this at all :clown emoji:
Or it’s a layoff without actually doing the layoff process because they don’t want to pay severance, and it would look bad in the headlines when they just announced GTA6.
I like Rebirth so far too, and the combat feels much smoother for me than Remake. Red XIII is so fun, and the character writing for our party (especially Tifa imo) is so good and exactly what I wanted from an expansion of the original’s story.
My major hate part I can’t really talk about without getting into plot spoiler territory, so I won’t. But I also don’t like the open map atm. It feels very…Ubisoft-y; busywork or empty. I know I can skip them if I want to, but I’m a completionist that doesn’t want to miss any story/lore, and the side missions are really dragging for me. It was the same with FFXVI, and I don’t know if I like this approach SqEnix seems to be gearing towards. I wonder if the new Kingdom Hearts is going to be the same way.
Also it’s not a “remake” in the traditional sense, the first game in this series was just called that.
Yes, I know, I was just being snarky without spoilers. The whole “remake but not” thing is kind of a big deal meta plot point the fanbase is still arguing about.
Also, we both know that SqEnix is going to release an ultimate bundle of the games when the final part releases. They’re already giving digital copies of Remake+Integrade to people for free if they pre-ordered Rebirth, which was kind of a bitter pill for the fans who paid for Remake at PS5 game prices.