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PlatinumGames opens official Japanese Twitter - EPIC SWITCH TEASING HYPETRAIN!
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KojiKnight
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Thankfully, there are far more people who haven't gotten the chance to play it at all and thus more likely to buy it than not.
RobotVM
Member
How about ports of the first two Bayonetta's and 101 with announcements for 3 and 102.
This would be the A1 scenario, obviously.
Not completely inconceivable either. I guess Platinum have a few guys twiddling their thumbs at the moment after MS cancelled Scalebound.
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
The 'traditional' controls not working very well is not only as false as it gets, especially when you liken the manual drawing aspect to fighting game inputs, but what you're suggesting as a supposed improvement will in fact be a massive step backwards. It'd make the act of swapping between different weapons on-the-fly and using them (plus other abilities) in quick succession or with minimal interruption a gigantic pain in the ass. What Platinum opted for deliberately breaks away from the usual weapon set-ups in favour of something that's tailor-made (and ultimately beneficial) for a game where everything else is specifically designed around it.
Amen to that. Can't believe I played through all of it. Luckily I bought the game during the eShops pricing error so only paid 8 for it.
Whatever this announcement turns out to be, I hope it'll be funding Bayonetta 3. I'd be willing to give a potential W102 a shot though.
AcceptableGhost
Member
I would buy W101 for sure, it was the #1 game I wanted to play on WiiU. In all honesty just port every WiiU game, I will probably end up getting them all (never owned a WiiU).
I think there is this irrational fear that Wii U ports are going to take bandwidth away from actual exclusives in the same way people got annoyed with all of the PS360 remasters early on in the PS4/XBO life cycle.
It worked just fine. With practice most people in the OT were able to pull out any weapon when needed.
Your face button solution is sub-optimal in a game with a dozen of different patterns.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
why are you guys playing the game with touch controls
Nah the right stick is actually fine
replicate doing fighting game moves and you'll be fine, it shouldn't be a problem since the game has stinger, launcher and spin inputs
Neff
Member
You don't deserve to make the thread you're inevitably going to make about that game's ending.
Do it anyway
Pretty much is.
We all saw it coming. Wii U was last gen's Metacritic darling, tied to a measly 13m players. Nintendo obviously and rightly feels that its library never got to fully flex its commercial muscle.
BaronLundi
Member
Re:W101
It finally clicked when I stopped thinking about the moves as drawings and more as fighting games inputs (and I suck at fighting games). Pro-controller made it an absolute blast and the controls are actually very tight. The drawing thing was a complete failure and I might have stopped playing if not for Saur and this:
W101 is on par with Bayonetta(s) as far as I'm concerned, pretty much second to none, current gen included.
Ports, sequels, spin-offs I'll take everything and anything provided they're action games and not on a phone.
It finally clicked when I stopped thinking about the moves as drawings and more as fighting games inputs (and I suck at fighting games). Pro-controller made it an absolute blast and the controls are actually very tight. The drawing thing was a complete failure and I might have stopped playing if not for Saur and this:
W101 is on par with Bayonetta(s) as far as I'm concerned, pretty much second to none, current gen included.
Ports, sequels, spin-offs I'll take everything and anything provided they're action games and not on a phone.
James Scott
Banned
If they port W101 they really need to give you the dodge and block moves from the shop and make a more fleshed out (optional) tutorial
Those moves are too important to have them be missable.
At least have it be a cutscene type thing where it shows you how to buy stuff from the shop if it's your first time.
<500k got to play W101
They're amazing games.
It's also not like ports stop new games. PG ported Bayo1 while making 2
Those moves are too important to have them be missable.
At least have it be a cutscene type thing where it shows you how to buy stuff from the shop if it's your first time.
<1 million got to play Bayo 2.
<500k got to play W101
They're amazing games.
It's also not like ports stop new games. PG ported Bayo1 while making 2
I got it with the MK promotion, completed it, and I regret choosing it over Sonic.
Boss Man
Member
Wii U has some great games. It'd be a fantastic value console today if the price dropped like console prices usually do. The full Wii library doesn't hurt it either.
I won't double dip, I'll play them on Wii U. Would be cool for the many people who skipped it to experience the games though.
I won't double dip, I'll play them on Wii U. Would be cool for the many people who skipped it to experience the games though.
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
Wouldn't call the drawing a failure if it succeeded (with flying colors) what it sets out to do: opening up the possibility for more actions - there's no longer a need to map buttons to cycle through weapons / abilities / whatever - and subsequently reduce the amount of time spent selecting them without breaking the flow of an encounter, like you'd see in older DMC's or Ninja Gaiden for example.
If anything, the obscurity of it all rather than the mechanic itself was the drawing's so-called downfall. Not that I personally mind having to dig deep to try and comprehend the tons of nuances at one's disposal, but they're objectively easy to overlook. Non-overbearing documentation without excessive tutorializing peppered throughout the campaign would be nice for a Switch port, given there's relatively little frame of reference (read: appropriate knowledge) from past games in the genre due to how idiosyncratic Wonderful 101 is.
dragonyeuw
Member
Yep. From a strictly business POV it makes sense to reuse the assets from those games, and try to get a better ROI on a system that's obviously going to provide a much bigger install base for the game to sell on. Bayonetta is probably bigger now than it was back in 2014, so I imagine a Switch port would do very well. Probably best to do it now while the Switch library is still in its relative infancy.
BaronLundi
Member
Yeah you're absolutely right, the failure was how it was taught and the sheer amount of mechanics or moves you could miss without having any idea they even existed.
Yeah. I'd hope it would give a lot of new people a chance to play them (and that they'd take this chance up).
It is just sometimes my common sense (I'm going to consume that which I'll actually eat
) and my desire for things to sell well get tangled up a bit in these cases.Nightmare452
Member
This. A port does not deny you a sequel, in fact ports like these (assuming Bayo and W101 come to Switch) help the case whether these franchises need to die or be continued. Bring the ports from Wii U. No issue from me, an owner of all these games on my Wii U.
Yep
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
their jacket also says 101 than 100
Omega Kirby
Member
Get out of here boy. Loki makes the game perfect
E_Darkness
Member
I've owned W101 before I even got a WiiU, and I still haven't played it.
Maybe I'll wait, or I'll get the WiiU out the box and play it. I dunno. I'm hoping for a sequel honestly so then I have an excuse to play it before.
Maybe I'll wait, or I'll get the WiiU out the box and play it. I dunno. I'm hoping for a sequel honestly so then I have an excuse to play it before.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
jaysus
Fantastical
Death Prophet
The dream is dead
FrostuTheNinja
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Outside of his dialogue, I didn't mind him...
Love.
Etrian Oddity
Member
Viewtiful Joe 3
Believe Gaf, believe.
Believe Gaf, believe.
No, Okami 2 first.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
why did IGN Japan tweet the platinum tweet as "Switch forecast"
LOL. Just imagine if nothing were to happen. Troll level over 9000 in that case!
Edit: Wait, it's not there from what I can see. Are you fake news, Tenderbrew?
Nope. He very nearly ruined it. His dialogue and voice were just terrible.
Theonik
Member
If we get famicon themed controlers I'll be so over that.
Rodolfo Brito
Member
It is just me or is there any one that really want a Metal Gear Rising 2?
Etrian Oddity
Member
Gimme dat amazing buttrock