Fire Emblem Awakening's success had nothing to do with "otaku pandering" (the more fan service-y art direction can be attributed to Kozaki and Kusakihara than any form of pandering) so much as it does with making the game more beginner friendly after Radiant Dawn's brutal difficulty killed the series on home consoles for a decade and putting together an actual marketing campaign in Europe and North America for the first time since Rekka No Ken's mediocre attempt with the now infamous Dorca poisoning "Trust No One" commercial. The fan service-y designs aren't necessarily out of place given the Castlevania series history of similarly tasteless designs but I can't imagine your average consumer will look at the character designs and be drawn to this game. If anything, I imagine it would turn them off from the game.
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Koji Igarashi Kickstarts Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (2.5D, backdash, 2018)
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Fire Emblem Awakening's success had nothing to do with "otaku pandering" (the more fan service-y art direction can be attributed to Kozaki and Kusakihara than any form of pandering) so much as it does with making the game more beginner friendly after Radiant Dawn's brutal difficulty killed the series on home consoles for a decade and putting together an actual marketing campaign in Europe and North America for the first time since Rekka No Ken's mediocre attempt with the now infamous Dorca poisoning "Trust No One" commercial. The fan service-y designs aren't necessarily out of place given the Castlevania series history of similarly tasteless designs but I can't imagine your average consumer will look at the character designs and be drawn to this game. If anything, I imagine it would turn them off from the game.
I know but a carbon copy artwork is what i expect from an indie developer that at best could hope to make a game that comes close to the original, not from the creator of the original game, from him i expect artworks that screams: "this will be even better than my previous work".
New Bloodstained Interview with Ben Judd (It's better than nothing guy) and Angel-Corlux (505 Games)
I'm listening to it right now.
I'm listening to it right now.
Well...its better than nothing
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The retro game that they've been talking about is at Bitsummit, it looks like? Famitsu put some pictures up here and it looks like Castlevania III in style. That's pretty great. It's out on 5/24 too!? That's surprising.
https://www.famitsu.com/news/201805/13157225.html
https://www.famitsu.com/news/201805/13157225.html
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