People are constantly going on and on and on about Sony closing Japan Studios, while knowing their output last generation was abysmal. Sony got blamed for it despite having to bring in people to finish the last Guardian after a half decade of development hell. It was so badly managed it skipped an entire console generation. For it to only be a moderate critical success and a commercial bomb.
Knack one and knack 2 were turned into memes. Gravity Rush games were just average to me, all style and very little actual abundance of fun. Sure these games had fun unique ideas, but just like a lot of Indie and double A games they hinged their entire game on them. A lot of the other aspects of the games were just half baked and/or not fun. People equate Japan studio to Nintendo but Nintendo doesn’t put out over a decade worth of consistent flops.
Since Gravity Rush 2 Toyama is just now putting out Slitterhead. Let’s face it if this was a sony game they would be getting dragged to hell and back. These are the kind of games japan studio super fans want though, bad playing UNIQUE ideas that no one will buy for full price, INCLUDING THEM.
Oh right, let’s see what Fumito Ueda is doing……..
…………………………..yep. 8 years since The Last Guardian and even longer since he left Japan Studio and his game is probably still a bunch of concept sketches somewhere.
So what would actually be carrying Japan Studio right now? That’s right Team Asobi. Who is putting out one of the best looking platformers this generation.
Seems like Hermen Hulst and Jim Ryan know what they are talking about after all
Knack one and knack 2 were turned into memes. Gravity Rush games were just average to me, all style and very little actual abundance of fun. Sure these games had fun unique ideas, but just like a lot of Indie and double A games they hinged their entire game on them. A lot of the other aspects of the games were just half baked and/or not fun. People equate Japan studio to Nintendo but Nintendo doesn’t put out over a decade worth of consistent flops.
Since Gravity Rush 2 Toyama is just now putting out Slitterhead. Let’s face it if this was a sony game they would be getting dragged to hell and back. These are the kind of games japan studio super fans want though, bad playing UNIQUE ideas that no one will buy for full price, INCLUDING THEM.
Oh right, let’s see what Fumito Ueda is doing……..
…………………………..yep. 8 years since The Last Guardian and even longer since he left Japan Studio and his game is probably still a bunch of concept sketches somewhere.
So what would actually be carrying Japan Studio right now? That’s right Team Asobi. Who is putting out one of the best looking platformers this generation.
Seems like Hermen Hulst and Jim Ryan know what they are talking about after all
what do you expect? Meanwhile, you hype up Concord which looks awful and had unlimited resources? Makes no sense.
