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Honestly, if Kowalski didn't respond with that I'd have been shocked.
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Xbox One Exclusive Scalebound Was Shelved Twice, Originally Starred a Little Girl
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Honestly, if Kowalski didn't respond with that I'd have been shocked.
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lol Japan doesn't matter. This is a console game, they made the right choice.
Generic dudebros > generic little anime girls
Usually devs pitch games to various publishers and hope for a bidding war.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Headphones guy >>>> creepy anime girls
Anyday.
Anyday.
I think it might also be because it's the title of the article the OP linked.
BananasWithGuns
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The protagonist doesn't particularly matter to me. Drew is fine, a little girl would have been fine. Regardless, issuing commands and watching dragons/dinosaurs fight doesn't seem like it would particularly fun over long stretches of time.
I don't know, Pokemon has been doing that for nearly 20 years.
It's a Platinum concept.
Do you really think it would have ended up as simple as you're describing it
ChoklitCow
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I love Kamiya interviews. Less BANNED.
Pimpbaa
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Yeah I don't care how douchey headphone guy is, anything is better than creepy little anime girl shit. I have a Vita, I got my fill of that crap already.
Mauricio_Magus
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Oh man, the little girl game sounds awesome.
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Yona of the Dawn
Tinfoilhatsron
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"Platinum"
"Little girl"
Nope (-＿- )ノ
"Little girl"
Nope (-＿- )ノ
Don't we all?
BananasWithGuns
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At its most basic I guess that's a fair comparison but reading the description in the article doesn't exactly give me Pokemon vibes. Of course it was just a prototype so impossible to know how it would turn out.
semiconscious
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Put_Yunica_in_Scalebound
i think if the lead'd been a shrub, or a can opener, it'd have better dialog...
Let's not be crazy here. Clearly, a coffee machine or a dead fish would be better choices
As far as the Wonderful 101 goes, the president of Platinum Games is the one who initially pitched the idea for the game to Nintendo. With Bayonetta 2, Sega and Platinum tried to find a publisher to fund the game, but couldn't find one willing to do it until they approached Nintendo.
I'm kind of disappointed that Kamiya didn't go with a female protagonist for Scalebound. On one hand, it's understandable given how it can be challenging from a marketing perspective, but on the other hand, why did Drew have to look and act so similar to Devil May Cry's Dante? It's unoriginal.
Mauricio_Magus
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omgyes
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Reminds me of people saying the same thing about Infamous:SS.
Where I live one would probably have thought that (douche in a beanie), but I live where the temperature on average is 60-80 degrees, LOL. Someone in a beanie looks dumb/"douche" like.
However, in colder places it's a completely normal thing.
I wouldn't mind the little girl angle, but I'm also cool with this guy. Especially if the whole music thing plays into the action/game. I like that idea. Music made Forza Horizon pretty awesome.
bobbychalkers
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I can see why they didn't do it but I really like the concept of a player character being relatively powerless while having this huge force in your command.
Are you kidding me? The current protagonist is like a dum-dum to the temple.
QuantumZebra
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sadface
hosannainexcelsis
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Yeah. It reminds me of a game I saw randomly recently that I can't remember the name of, but it featured you controlling a character who remotely controlled a giant robot. So you would be viewing the scene from the vantage point of this boy and had to get him to a spot where he would be out of harm's way but could still see what was going on so he would be able to issue the right commands to the robot. It's an interesting gameplay idea.
John Kowalski
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I'm not cool enough for animegaf.
It would be really awesome to play as a young girl riding a huge dinosaur and eating humans left and right.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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I wish we'd still have gotten a chick, recently I more and more prefer playing as women in RPGs
Prototype Viktor
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Don't worry she grew up to be a nice man. That's how growing stronger works right?
Emperor_EL
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They should've just aged her up or made a character that not an amalgam of the 2 least liked DMC protagonists. Now that I think about it, Drew would be infinitely more likable if he acted like Dante Hicks.
Avatar quote.
PetulantChild
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Thank god, I'll take Dudebro McEminem over another generic Japanese "little girl who's actually 3925729835627893 years old" design.
Disaster Nebraska
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This seems to happen to Platinum fairly often:
- Bayonetta 2 wouldn't have happened without Nintendo's involvement
- MGR:Revengence wouldn't have happened without Kojima reaching out to Platinum
- and now Scalebound
Good on Microsoft for taking a chance on the game. I'm sure we'll get a quirky, flawed, but ultimately amazing Platinum title, per the norm.
- Bayonetta 2 wouldn't have happened without Nintendo's involvement
- MGR:Revengence wouldn't have happened without Kojima reaching out to Platinum
- and now Scalebound
Good on Microsoft for taking a chance on the game. I'm sure we'll get a quirky, flawed, but ultimately amazing Platinum title, per the norm.
Its getting a bit weird around here
Ricky Ricardo
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YO lol
Platinum are amazing visionaries, but they're doomed to remain obscure as long as they keep thinking outside of the box. Dragons and swords sell really well, so this retooling was probably for the best.
I just wish they would release multiplatform games. Scalebound, Bayonetta 2, and Nier 2 on all three platforms would have sold reasonable well (for Platinum).
I just wish they would release multiplatform games. Scalebound, Bayonetta 2, and Nier 2 on all three platforms would have sold reasonable well (for Platinum).
All those assumptions about how the little girl would be like. We hardly know anything about her and yet people assume she'll be an anime girl and will be the embodiment of every single loli trope that Japan has ever created.
I know they made Bayonetta but I would still have preferred if they just made the original girl older.
Well yeah, who doesn't want to see that. Young male characters going on grand adventures has been a ubiquitous design for decades now, it would be nice to have something different.
It really sucks that they swapped dinosaurs with dragons. dragons get all the attention in most rpgs/games that I played in the last years : the Souls games, Skyrim, Dragon Sge, the witcher 2, tales of xilia and even Bayonetta 1 had like a dragon angel with an upside down face in his abdomen lol.
still interested in the game tho
Leaked pic of the cancelled protagonist
still interested in the game tho
Leaked pic of the cancelled protagonist
Twin Tails
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Replace douche beats with girl.
