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Let's talk about Good-Feel and their future with Nintendo.

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SalvaPot

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As the years pass and development becomes more expensive and time consuming, Nintendo has made quite a few allies in game development, entrusting their valuable I.P.'s onto other developers every now and then. One of the is Good-Feel, who so far has made 3 games for Nintendo's consoles: Wario Land: Shake it!, Kirby's Epic Yarn and Yoshi's Wooly World.

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Other than that, they have made a few Street Pass games and helped in games like Mario and Luigi and Wii Play.

Personally, I think they have made some of the most beautiful platformers I have ever seen. The hand-drawn animation style on Wario Land is Top Tier, and the imagination on Kirby and Yoshi just make the games a joy to play.

We know they can work with new I.P.'s since Epic Yarn was pretty much a new game until Kirby robbed Prince Fluff at the last second

I really want to see what they are working on next, they recently released the port of Yoshi on the 3DS, so I am really curious what they could be cooking up. Can they make something other than platformers and still deliver on creativity and visuals?

I think they make a great team with Nintendo so far and have yet to disappoint, maybe its too early for them to have a new game on E3, but I am looking forward for a surprise!
 
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@MUWANdo

Banned
I hope they don't get pigeonholed as the yarn factory, that'd be boring and a waste of their talent.

It should be noted that the guy who composed all their Nintendo games left the company after the Yoshi 3DS port was done and I've heard others followed suit. It might indicate something, it might not.
 
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NMFried

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Wario Land: Shake It! was incredible.

Anyway, I think they should have been the ones to tackle Hey! Pikmin, but the hope is that they're working on something more important.
 
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TheSpaceBetween

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Their was evidence they were working on a new IP in conjunction with YWW. I think they're great personally. I'd love a 2D Metroid in their style... They'd just have to learn how to make a little more faster paced game in an interconnected world.
 
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GamerJM

Banned
I'd be most interested in them doing another Kirby's Epic Yarn game since that was my favorite project of theirs, but I'll probably buy anything they put out. Good studio and I'm always happy to see more from them.
 
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QuixoticNeutral

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Yoshi's Woolly World was a huge step up for them, and although I didn't play many of the late additions to StreetPass, Market Crashers was a case study in taking a simple, almost trivial concept (the kind you would expect of a mobile time-waster) and pushing the execution to the limit. I'm keeping an eye on Good-Feel for sure; they're well positioned to be the kind of quality secondary platformer studio that people would have liked Arzest to be, but they are capable of more besides. You need studios like this to get some of Nintendo's minor or neglected IPs back at all, and it's good to have some with a record of delivering on what we recognize as Nintendo depth and polish.
 
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Soul Lab

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Yoshi's Woolly World was amazing. Those visuals and the charming vibe blew me away.
The execution of the yarn concept, which influenced the gameplay, is so good. give me a sequel :D
 
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Shiggy

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They actually had 4 games with Nintendo, or 5 if you count Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World.

Everyone's forgetting Tales in a Box: Hidden Shapes in Perspective!

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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
Honestly, they are great at building a world based on a theme that they need to team up with Lego and make a game where you truly feel like you're in a Lego world rather than a normal world with token Lego models scattered about.
 
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Terrell

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@MUWANdo said:
I hope they don't get pigeonholed as the yarn factory, that'd be boring and a waste of their talent.

It should be noted that the guy who composed all their Nintendo games left the company after the Yoshi 3DS port was done and I've heard others followed suit. It might indicate something, it might not.
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Heard from where?
 
Kikorin

Kikorin

Member
I would like to see them working on the visual part of the new Animal Crossing, Yoshi WW is one of the most beautiful games I've ever seen.
 
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watershed

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Their next game is going to be Paper Zelda, a 2d action side scroller like Zelda II but not nearly as difficult or Mohair Metroid a woolly 2d Metroid game.
 
Allan Holdsworth

Allan Holdsworth

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They make good games with fantastical visual design.

Wario was their best gameplay-wise (if you do all the level objectives), but it didn't quite reach the heights of WL2/VB/3/4.

Kirby was too easy (even getting the platinum medals) but fun, though not on the level of the best HAL games, as Return to DreamLand showed soon after.

Woolly World was again a solid game but suffered from too many collectibles, many randomly placed about (had to use the hidden cloud items on occasion as it proved too daunting without them). If you ignore the collectibles it becomes too simple and easy ,aside from the special levels. I prefer all of the Yoshi Island games to it, even the unfairly maligned DS and New, but I enjoyed my time with it.

So yes, they haven't made a truly *great* game, but their games are fun and a pleasure to look at.
 
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1upsuper

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Kirby's Epic Yarn got a lot of flack when it released but it is a great game in pretty much every respect. The soundtrack is stellar. The level design is on point and the whole game is a joy. I'm a big Kirby fan and I haven't liked any of the Kirby games that have come out since KEY nearly as much as KEY. I look forward to their future projects.
 
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ThoseDeafMutes

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TheSpaceBetween said:
Their was evidence they were working on a new IP in conjunction with YWW. I think they're great personally. I'd love a 2D Metroid in their style... They'd just have to learn how to make a little more faster paced game in an interconnected world.
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Y Cant Metroid Knit, coming to Switch in March 2018.
 
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Linkstrikesback

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@MUWANdo said:
I hope they don't get pigeonholed as the yarn factory, that'd be boring and a waste of their talent.

It should be noted that the guy who composed all their Nintendo games left the company after the Yoshi 3DS port was done and I've heard others followed suit. It might indicate something, it might not.
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Yoshi's Wooly World took them 5 years to complete, being the only major game they released since Kirby's Epic Yarn on wii in 2010. They might not have any say in the matter.
 
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Coen

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Stunt Race FX sequel with paper craft esthetic. I'd love to see them apply their formula to a different genre.
 
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Kamek Koopa

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I've loved all their games so far. It's great to see how they've evolved within the 2D platformers and reach the excellence with Woolly World.

They're marvelous building exploration and puzzle-based 2D games and also dealing with unique aesthetics, so that's why I'd love seeing them working in a 2D Metroid more than any other Nintendo developer. I imagine something in the vein of Zero Mission comic style artworks, with the excellent Wario Land Shake animations.
 
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Exterminieren

Banned
I'd love for them to be allowed a new IP. They've done stalwart work with Kirby and Yoshi, and it'd be great to see them use their creativity on something entirely new.

I imagine it'll be a while until we hear from them again, mind.
 
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purseowner

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Wish Good-Feel were making Hey! Pikmin in a way.
Although I actually really like Arzest's games, unlike most of GAF.

They're running out of franchises that would work with wool and yarn, so it's likely time for something different.

Birdo's Felt Furore
 
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marmoka

Banned
Yoshi's Wolly World is a really nice game. Probably not the platformer of the year, but very enjoyable.

And a friend Wario Land is awesome.

They should be the ones developing a Super Mario Bros 2D game. We need something different.
 
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Tarextherex

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Xenoblade said:
They certainly live up to their name. Controlling Yoshi in Woolly World was sublime.
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What

He was way too slow even for a Yoshi game, like play Island or Story and compare. There is definitely something wrong


Didn't play Wario but Kirby was quite boring, Yoshi was basically Yoshi's Island with yarn. I'm pretty tired of 2D platformers from Nintendo that are simply throwbacks to the NES/SNES era while barely evolving anything but at least Good Feel makes visually distinctive games, also they don't come out to often.
 
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Gartooth

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The visuals in their games are flat out some of my favorite in the industry. I hope they leave the arts and crafts aesthetic behind though since I think it is being overplayed at Nintendo as a whole. That 2D animation for Wario Land still wows me years later.

If their games weren't so slow paced I would have a higher anticipation for their next project. I think Wario was their best overall effort but I still prefer a couple older games like Wario Land 4 to it.
 
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The Boat

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Good Feel is amazing, they make the best slow paced exploration based 2D platformers and their visuals and soundtracks are always top notch.
Edit: Tomita left? Huge loss.
 
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