As Western design philosophies have taken on increasing market dominance, how do Japanese designers view their differences -- and what do they see as their mandate as they aim to keep pace? Ninety Nine Nights II producer Tak Fujii sees an important marriage of scenario and distinctive technology evolution as a primary goal.
The newly-launched Ninety Nine Nights II is an extreme hack and slash game in the vein of Dynasty Warriors or Sengoku Basara, but versus its competitors boasts some one million troops to dispatch of simultaneously. The game releases this week, and was developed by Feelplus under Q Entertainment, and is being published in North America by Konami.
Gamasutra got a chance to speak with Konami-side producer Fujii about the game's unique qualities. Fujii previously spent several years working on the Pro Evolution Soccer franchise, familiarizing himself with Western game taste there.
COGconnected: Some sequels come as a result of the artists behind it truly believing an IP deserves a second chance, could be improved with just a few small tweaks, or is indeed good enough to warrant a sequel. These ones do not.
Loads of people asked for a sequel to Knack, including myself.
The first game was good fun, clearly rushed for launch, but a good launch title for PS4.
Yeah, I know a lot of people who liked the game, and said they wouldn't mind a sequel which improved on the original.
Loads of people did. Loads of people also played it on PS+.
Although, I don't really know what the actual numerical value is of a load, unless it's the kind of load that we usually see used to criticize Sony or its games.
The great dunk spoke, and knack 2 was goty before it even dropped. Spaghetti. Meatballs. Puerto Rico.
Knack 2 and Kane and Lynch 2 were so good
Cool article though aha mostly all true.
Still waiting for Kanye and Lynch 3 to solve that insane cliffhanger ending
I will always want more Naughty Bear. Those games are like bad SyFy movies, just so awful but so fun.
Knack 1-2 was Fantastic...,.... hope Knack 3 being developed.
Can't wait for Ratchet and clank 2
Ps4
I wonder what would happen if Knack was multiplatform. Would people defend it that much.
I think people probably wouldn't even pay attention to it at all. There is no denying that exclusives do get a bit of a bump in notoriety. Same could be said for any number of mid-tier game which is multi-plat. It doesn't really get that much attention outside of an announcement, maybe an occasional screen shot or marketing blurb, and then some reviews on release. Quite a few mid-tier titles that are exclusive...especially those from 1st party, get a lot more attention.
That being said, the first one was pretty fun for a launch title. The second one was really good, although still had some room to do things better.
A lot of ridiculous things happen during E3. Here's a roundup of the five most outlandish events.
TQ Digital has revealed the plans for their upcoming Valentine’s Day celebrations in the free-to-play Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG), Eudemons Online. Set to feature special new outfits and the appearance of two popular Ninety-Nine Nights Characters, the celebrations in Eudemons Online are sure to catch the attention of many gamers worldwide.
extreeeeeeeeeeme. The east and the west can combat in a battle featuring wun myrun truuuuuuuuz.
the main difference? big american penis.
"wun myrun truuuuuuuuz.... wooowwwww".
Man, that conference was just full of win.
For starters, try making games without little elf-looking children as the main protagonists. It's like, gaming for pedophiles. Ok, so I exaggerate a little, but the majority of Japanese-made games seem geared to a very young audience. Back when I was fourteen that was ok but now that I'm a little older (alright, a lot older) they don't have the same appeal. Especially rpg's. I can't stand jrpg's. Gotta go western every time.
if you presss XXX or YYY or XXX, you will be sucked...