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Muramasa & Little King's Story selling well thanks to EU: LKS 2 "awaiting greenlight"
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tetrisgrammaton
Member
GhaleonQ said:
It's almost as Earthbound is to the States.
Bel Marduk
Banned
Next success - Arc Rise Fantasia 
Very well.Oxx said:
Really, you couldn't imagine using the pointer to point at where you want to throw your troops? Or click on the enemy you want to attack?Oxx said:
I can't think of any reason why IR would harm the game as it is now. Motion controls on the other hand would be utterly pointless and tacked on, but the game was begging for IR. It's one of the few things that would have improved LKS imo.
Individual units are pretty small and some locations are quite cramped and narrow.
I'm not saying that it wouldn't enhance the game a great deal, but that they would have had to have made some tweaks to the design and interface to make it work.
But I'm somebody who used the d-pad and buttons in the DS Fire Emblem.
I'm not saying that it wouldn't enhance the game a great deal, but that they would have had to have made some tweaks to the design and interface to make it work.
But I'm somebody who used the d-pad and buttons in the DS Fire Emblem.
Bel Marduk
Banned
Oxx said:
Oh wait, yeah. But I was thinking of Marvelous developed games than Namco.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Dascu said:
My bad then, last I knew RS confirmed the February release to the NOM crew.
I see that could be different now.
That sucks.
But I'll support them nontheless for bringin' such great Wii games over here, also I was going to import NMH2 day one anyway.
Zero, zilch, nada, rien, niente tv advertising at all.
I think I've never even seen a Muramasa ad on a magazine. LKS I'm not sure, maybe some (mind you, magazines ad and not TV's)
phisheep
NeoGAF's Chief Barrister
Osuwari said:
I really do hope that this never happens. It will, of course, because that is the way things go, but the longer we can do without, the better.
The trouble is, once you have these consolidated charts it tends to skew the market very heavily towards the top sellers and squeeze out the small guys - which is the exact opposite of what we want to happen if we are interested in new interesting stuff being done.
Sure, it would be handy for analysts, and nice for GAF to talk about. But I don't want the side effects.
That makes no difference as far as I can tell, maybe I'm missing something, but I can't think of anything. You must be thinking of it working some other way.Oxx said:
Just try Pikmin Wii or watch a video of it and I'm sure you'll agree with me... Think specifically of the throwing Pikmin mechanic as that's most akin to how you use troops in LKS.
For example, If you press C in LKS you get a pointer that shows where your troop will go based on where Corobo is facing, imagine if that pointer was your Wii remotes IR pointer. If pointer controls were implemented you'd just throw you troop the direction you point regardless of where he's facing and pick more accurately - making it avoid the issue of attacking the wrong thing that happened from time to time with traditional controls.
I don't see how this would effect anything to do with the unit size (you're still firing one guy at a time and you're not selecting them individually, they'd still come in the hierarchy format LKS uses). It doesn't matter how narrow the areas are either as we're not talking a whole new path finding mechanic for the troops (He's not going to search out the location, he's just going to run toward it as normal)
Can't think of any significant design changes that would be needed, and the only interface change would be a pointer. It would make navigating menus slightly nicer too.Oxx said:
Even the difficulty balancing should be fine as your troops only have a short running distance so it shouldn't affect the fact you can move independently of the direction you wish to fire them much either.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Shitty distribution didnt want me to buy Muramasa here in Spain.
By what I read seems they have restock the game.
Hopefully will find it in my next incursion to a videogame shop.
By what I read seems they have restock the game.
Hopefully will find it in my next incursion to a videogame shop.
Black-Wind
Member
This.Sadist said:
samratty said:
I should probably retire from this thread until I play Pikmin NPC.
The fictitious, pointer-enabled version of LKS running inside my head involved selecting units on the screen before sending them in to battle.
I recognise that it would work perfectly with the d-pad toggling of unit types that exists in the current game.
I feel bad not contributing to Muramasa sales, but the claims about backtracking really turned me off from paying $50 for it. But I'm really glad it and LKS seem to be selling well. And a sequel to LKS, which once sounded like a pipe dream, would be a godsend! Please....
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Souldriver
Member
Any actual numbers? I checked wiki and this is what they say:
Dated numbers, but it shows that Europe is its biggest market.
Also, ironically, the source article from Gamasutra is called Marvelous Sees Success With PSP Games, Less So With Wii.
Dated numbers, but it shows that Europe is its biggest market.
Also, ironically, the source article from Gamasutra is called Marvelous Sees Success With PSP Games, Less So With Wii.
Hero of Legend
Member
Souldriver said:
All discussed here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=380101
And the Wii numbers as of then (November (thread) or September? (below):
Muramasa: The Demon Blade JP = 47,000
Arc Rise Fantasia JP = 45,000
Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga NA = 16,000
Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility EU = 57,000
Little King's Story:
JP = 26,000
EU = 67,000
NA = 37,000
Total = 130,000
However, they only seem to count Muramasa's JP sales and VKES's NA sales. Perhaps they don't get their sales from Ignition right away for some reason? And VKES came out in Japan on Oct 8th, so this must be as of the end of September.
SpacePirate Ridley said:Shitty distribution didnt want me to buy Muramasa here in Spain.
By what I read seems they have restock the game.
Hopefully will find it in my next incursion to a videogame shop.
En qué zona vives? I could ask if anyone else could get any copy near you.
BTW, we were taking photos of our newly bought Muramasas to say (at least) HI to the Spanish distributor
Castor Krieg
Banned
http://www.gamerzines.com/wii/news/little-kings-story-sequel.html
Man, things like that break my heart. You have a very dedicated man that enjoys making games for everyone, he wants to make more, LKS is really an awesome game and...it doesn't sell because of publisher's ignorance/retailers/FPS noobs. Sad.
Man, things like that break my heart. You have a very dedicated man that enjoys making games for everyone, he wants to make more, LKS is really an awesome game and...it doesn't sell because of publisher's ignorance/retailers/FPS noobs. Sad.
jaundicejuice
Member
Nice to hear that what are arguably two of the best games for the 2009 (and the Wii in general) are doing well.
Bending_Unit_22
Member
Eh, hopefully LKS2 won't be as disappointing as the first one. By far my biggest disappointment this gen.
Little King's Story was fantastic - under its bright, cheerful disposition lies a really quite deep and thought provoking game experience. It's inventive, challenging and so eloquently put together that no amount of sales will really do it justice (certainly none of the ones anybody predicted it would get.)
I'm glad it is getting some solid sales from Europe at least.
I'm glad it is getting some solid sales from Europe at least.
Phife Dawg
Member
Uh, in no shape or form is this comparable to the abomination that is Mad World PAL.Anso said: