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Galapagos RPG - Finally, JRPGs just for Japan
MA17
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Feel free to file this under "Eh, Whatever", but earlier this year the internet reported that a new brand called Galapagos RPG would be established as the curators of the JRPG that would cater to Japanese tastes in the Japanese market for people who are Japanese in Japan. And their first project would be connected with Compile Heart, which is...already fairly well entrenched in Japanese taste; Japanese market; Japanese people in Japan. So, putting aside redundancy issues, this sort of announcement must mean that Galapagos would therefore be making the Japanese games that were so Japanese that even Compile Heart would be whispering "daaaaamn" in Japanese into the cat ear of their child-like robot maid sex pillow.
However! Complicating this self-evidently bullshit Japan-wank was the information that Final Fantasy art king Yoshitaka Amano would be working on the project's concept art, and Nobu Uematsu's Earthbound Papas would be doing music. Such details naturally puts one in mind of this:
Which then turns the dial instantly, if reluctantly, from "Fuck this" to "Fuck yes!"
Then Famitsu ran a story a few weeks ago that broke the first details of this JRPG of Infinite Japanesity, and after a splash page reiterating how great Amano can be:
...they turned around and printed a bunch of things about the project revealed to be named Fairy Fencer F that handily negated everything positive:
Surely, Compile Heart never could have made a game like Fairy Fencer F! This clearly required a journey of discovery among great talent to find the seeds of an evolutionary idea that would change the very nature of how we perceive JRPGs in Japan amongst Japanese people! Just look at that maid! And that other girl! And the protagonist who got his abilities accidentally! Does anyone have amnesia? Probably, because that's how Japan likes it! Guess how many of the main characters just want to protect people! Maybe the characters will be in a love triangle! Maybe the DLC will be all Neptunia characters!
And that's why Galapagos RPG can turn the dial back to "Fuck this".
(Added bonus, next page after the Famitsu announcement was a bunch of info on Summon Night 5 for the PSP, which is about as Japan Japan Japan Japan RPG as most people consider necessary)
However! Complicating this self-evidently bullshit Japan-wank was the information that Final Fantasy art king Yoshitaka Amano would be working on the project's concept art, and Nobu Uematsu's Earthbound Papas would be doing music. Such details naturally puts one in mind of this:
Which then turns the dial instantly, if reluctantly, from "Fuck this" to "Fuck yes!"
Then Famitsu ran a story a few weeks ago that broke the first details of this JRPG of Infinite Japanesity, and after a splash page reiterating how great Amano can be:
...they turned around and printed a bunch of things about the project revealed to be named Fairy Fencer F that handily negated everything positive:
Surely, Compile Heart never could have made a game like Fairy Fencer F! This clearly required a journey of discovery among great talent to find the seeds of an evolutionary idea that would change the very nature of how we perceive JRPGs in Japan amongst Japanese people! Just look at that maid! And that other girl! And the protagonist who got his abilities accidentally! Does anyone have amnesia? Probably, because that's how Japan likes it! Guess how many of the main characters just want to protect people! Maybe the characters will be in a love triangle! Maybe the DLC will be all Neptunia characters!
And that's why Galapagos RPG can turn the dial back to "Fuck this".
(Added bonus, next page after the Famitsu announcement was a bunch of info on Summon Night 5 for the PSP, which is about as Japan Japan Japan Japan RPG as most people consider necessary)
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