Monster Hunter Stories 2? I thought that flopped and they were planning another MH spinoff with edgy teens or something
Fit Boxing 2, not shocked, that game did super well, especially in Japan
Disgaea 6 with 3D models? Disgaea 5's getting a NSO trial or something too
Supergiant's Hades got a spot, good for them
Balan Wonderworld (Yuji Naka & Naoto Oshima's game), out March 26
it definitely looks like an old-fashioned game, I'll give it that
Ori & the Will of the Wisps is getting a fancy packaged edition (with two cases?)
indie game snaps: Into the Breach, Unrailed!, Hardcore Mecha (which is getting a Gurren Lagann crossover)
Rune Factory 5, the sheep still look weird
...and now they're going deep on Monhun stuff, I don't think there'll be anything after this but I'll stick around
Monhun Rise is curious, it's as if they're rebooting the old style but ignoring the actual incredibly successful reboot
like, they seem like they're pitching it more directly as a new point of return for the old-school players but it's not like classic MH has been gone for long
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Famitsu posted their developer aspirations feature, with 141 devs & assorted industry figures sharing their goals for 2023 famitsu.com/news/202212/27…🇯🇵 dog tired atm but I'll share any that catch my fancy
ArcSys' Daisuke Ishiwatari's aspiration for 2023: he notes how he's subscribed to multiple video services but just browsing them for things to "consume" feels like work, & even though the average quality of content has risen sharply, it's hard to get excited, and in wondering...
...why that might be, he wonders if having so much easily-accessible quality media might be diminishing the value one places on things, so his aspiration for 2023 is to go back to basics and try to create things that people will feel are important to them
as 2022 winds down, I feel like taking a look back at everything published on @shmuplations over the last year—I'm sure there are plenty of translations that people might've missed for whatever reason, so maybe you'll discover something new: (thread)
first off, a big site redesign went live at the beginning of the year—the original design was not only showing its age but becoming unwieldy on the backend, so it was a long time coming
kicking off 2022's interview content was this 2007 interview with programmer Masayuki Yamamoto on his contributions to Nihon Telenet and their influential anime-esque action/RPG series, Valis shmuplations.com/valis/
it also includes a story about a clever dev workaround…
denfami interviewed Masahiro Sakurai on his jump to youtube: why he did it, how he does it & the secrets nobody's yet picked up on news.denfaminicogamer.jp/interview/2212…🇯🇵
one of the big things he emphasises early on is how extremely specific his channel is—it's helmed by a high-profile, multi-genre director with the freedom to talk about past work, who's also familiar with many other games, good at visual presentation, has a track record of...
…regular, consistent content production (via his Famitsu column), is willing to eat the cost of regular video production without worrying about profits, /and/ he knows the mission & can do what can be quite lonely work without getting caught up in second-guessing or self-doubt
heads up for anyone who imported a Japanese Mega Drive Mini 2: there's a link & 4-digit password for a user questionnaire on one of the inner flaps of the box, which includes questions about future Minis—here are the questions, one by one: (thread)
#1: when did you buy the Mega Drive Mini 2? (release date: October 27, 2022)
-I pre-ordered
-I bought it on launch day (no preorder)
-I bought it within a week of launch
-I bought it a week or longer from launch
#2: where'd you buy MD Mini 2?
(physical)
-game store
-electronics/camera store
-toy store
-dept store
-CD/book store
-conbini
-other
(online)
-major online store
-electronics/camera online store
-online toy store
-online dept store
-online CD/book store
-Sega Shop
-other
on the reception to the OG MD Mini: when Nintendo announced the FC Mini in 2016, Okunari put together a proposal for a MD Mini the very next day; during the pitching process, Nintendo also put out the SFC Mini
bc the MD Mini was designed under the shadow of Nintendo's minis (>)
...they designed it from the perspective of being a latecomer & thinking hard about how they could clear the bar set by Nintendo, which meant going above & beyond
the SFC Mini had 21 games, so they had have 42—they had Starfox 2, so he wanted to add two big bonus games, etc