RPGFan says, "Whenever a beloved series gets resurrected, the developer takes a big chance. It's difficult to not only preserve what people loved, but also keep things fresh with new innovations. Longtime fans are also invested fans, however, and it's harder to meet their expectations. It's even more difficult when it has been over a decade since the series has seen a new entry, which is the case with Parasite Eve. Parasite Eve introduced us to a story deeply rooted in science fiction and horror, one of the most badass female main characters ever, and a hybrid action RPG/Survival Horror battle system. All these have worked well in the past, yet I must confess that The 3rd Birthday (T3B) dashed my hopes for a quality title in more ways than one. I'll put it plain and simple: T3B is a tease. It builds you up for greatness and then drowns itself in awful gameplay, poor characterization choices, and an ambiguous story with plot holes galore. The 3rd Birthday is a game that resurrected a...
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.
Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
Square Enix will be releasing three new manga titles later this year, all of which are available for pre-order now.
