OrbitalBeard
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You might be right.
Not happening. Knack 2 even bombed in the UK.
You might be right.
There is literally no chance. Knack 2 has already come and gone in the UK. It tanked. Odyssey is not going to tank.
Design-by-committee character that according to Cerny was created to appeal to everyone in the world, actually only appeals to a few people in the world. I am shocked!
I dunno, Japan Studio designed the wonderful Kat and her wondrous world in GR, and that game's sequel flopped so hard that they're cutting the net features after only a year.
You know how games sometimes have legs that keep going after its initial sprint on opening day/week? Knack 2 is the reverse of that: It's going to moonwalk its way to millions of sales once it climaxes in a few months.
Sony is better off funding exclusives with Japanese developers tbh.
Japan studio is just not very good at what it should be doing atm.
Well, the game is not visually appealing in the least. It could be a 10/10 game and still bomb just based on how it looks.
Not surprising at all, but it is sad because the game is a fun, solid 7/10.
Knack 3 on PS7 confirmed.Can we really say that when we're getting a new Bubsy game this month?
This and thisThe first game sucked and the ps4 isn't content starved.
No they arent.Well, both games are bad so its understandable.
No they arent.
Kinda makes this whole thread, kinda pointless, dont you think?
How much of the second did you actually play? Sure, I could see the first one being very basic to many people. But the sequel added a lot of great combat and platforming into the mix, with a great amount of challenge to boot (if you picked very hard mode that is). Im just curious why the second is as bad to you as the first when there are so many markedly improved aspects.Yeah. They are. I bought the first one for $9AU because I figured it couldnt be THAT bad and got the second one free.
Theyre both bad games. The check pointing in the first one even makes Gears of War checkpoints seem ok.
Knack 2 did not even chart in the top 30 of Famitsu with the lowest charting game on that list selling only 2601 units.
I am still shocked anyone though greenlighting a Knack sequel was a good idea.
Japan has spoken.
The fact the first Knack was greenlit astounds me.
I dunno, Japan Studio designed the wonderful Kat and her wondrous world in GR, and that game's sequel flopped so hard that they're cutting the net features after only a year.
Sony is better off funding exclusives with Japanese developers tbh.
Japan studio is just not very good at what it should be doing atm.
Japan has spoken.
The fact the first Knack was greenlit astounds me.
It "astounds" you that a family-friendly platform-combat game was greenlit for a console launch? You mean like that's an incomprehensible thing to process?!
A concept like Knack being greenlit makes sense.It "astounds" you that a family-friendly platform-combat game was greenlit for a console launch? You mean like that's an incomprehensible thing to process?!
I think it's more of what Knack is. Like, even the character just looks like a focus tested character. There's a sheen of blandness in the entire aesthetic. And for a mascot game, that can more or less kill it. To be honest, I honestly thought the hook of the character was all of the objects they can render him with, which is to say he was more of a mascot for the technical power of the PS4, and little else.
I don't believe the genre is the problem, but the execution. I couldn't tell who Knack was for, but you state family-friendliness. I saw nothing wholesome and "for the whole family" in any part of the game except maybe the character, but this brings us right back to the blandness of Knack as a character and where he looks to just be designed to say "look what the PS4 can do!"
But what do they do with that? Nothing.
Calling it: Knack 3 to have an anime artstyle, main character changed to a cute girl, feature clothing damage
On top of Knack being a day 1 launch title where PS4 hardly had any other games to buyIn Japan the original Knack is in the PS4 top 10 best selling game ever but only due to the forced bundling.
In reality no one (very few) care for the franchise.
It's nothing surprising.
PS4 top 10 best selling game in Japan: