Nintendo has been funding a lot of Platinum's most fun projects. (see: Astral Chain)
But Platinum is oftentimes just as responsible for their whiffs as their hits so I can only imagine what ratio of Platinum and of publisher meddling happened to make Babylon's Fall come out the way it did.
I'm gonna guess this was one where they were work for hire and it wasn't a project they were shopping around
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Nintendo has been funding a lot of Platinum's most fun projects. (see: Astral Chain)
But Platinum is oftentimes just as responsible for their whiffs as their hits so I can only imagine what ratio of Platinum and of publisher meddling happened to make Babylon's Fall come out the way it did.
I'm gonna guess this was one where they were work for hire and it wasn't a project they were shopping around
I think they did this to themselves. It had been in the planning stages since Automata and was the first title out of their new live service studio, formed around the time they received Tencent investment.
I’m going to guess that they saw a potential route for expansion/stable revenue and dramatically underestimated how hard live service games are to make. Then the pandemic happened.
Tunic came out on Switch recently and is blowing my mind so hard that my skull now resembles a discarded orange peel. The core Zelda/Dark Souls (Dark Zeld?) mechanics are familiar, though expertly balanced, but I was not expecting them to go this hard on the puzzle elements too. Like this game is on par with freakin' Riven in terms of challenge and execution.
bowser is always extremely dangerous in theory, that makes it more satisfying for mario to take him down
like basically anybody who isn't a main character or a Bigger Bad is nearly always portrayed as shitting themselves whenever he shows up
Kind of a truism of most Saturday cartoon style storytelling. The minions will always be more willing to fight the hero than the villain because although strictly speaking the hero is stronger than the villain by virtue of... y'know, beating the villain every time - it's typically not the hero that's going to dunk you into a lava river like Judge Doom and a barrel of Dip.
I don't think I've ever seen Jack Black in a role and wished it was another actor instead.
That's a fun thought experiment: what Jack Black role used him least effectively? Gulliver's Travels (bad) or Shark Tale (not a good Jack Black character) are my bets
I want a game where you just play as Bowser for the whole thing. A big pretty Bowser platformer with some kind of minor army management system. Maybe something pikmin-lite where goombas and koopas and stuff follow you around and you can chuck them as weapons and use them for puzzle solving.
I don't know what Bowser's inside story did I haven't played it yet.
yo are they doing that forgotten lore where the marios are brooklyn plumbers getting warped into the mushroom kingdom
yo okay
alright!
(pratt still sucks!)
With there being Foreman Spike and DK in the cast (Sebastian Maniscalco and Seth Rogen) I'm assuming a general structure of:
Opening with Bowser, hard cut to...
Mario in New Donk City, with Luigi, working as plumbers at some building site with Wrecking Crew references.
Donkey Kong show up, Mario fails to "be a hero" and falls into the Mushroom Kingdom.
Main plot with Mario, Toad, Peach, Bowser, etc.
B-plot with Luigi trying to find and rescue Mario, getting into an escalating series of comedy-horror situations.
Climax of the film with Luigi finally arriving, and Mario succeeds in "being a hero".
Denouement back in New Donk City with Mario taking care of the somehow still extant Donkey Kong problem.
And in looking up who was playing Spike, I found out that the directors of this are the guys behind Teen Titans Go! (as well as Batman: The Brave and the Bold in the case of Michael Jelenic), which raises my hopes.
Chris Pratt feels like "Lego Movie was successful, get me that guy!" (Not taking into account reasons why Lego Movie was successful, and that part of the joke is Chris Pratt voicing a generic duder in that)
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
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I'm gonna guess this was one where they were work for hire and it wasn't a project they were shopping around
I think they did this to themselves. It had been in the planning stages since Automata and was the first title out of their new live service studio, formed around the time they received Tencent investment.
I’m going to guess that they saw a potential route for expansion/stable revenue and dramatically underestimated how hard live service games are to make. Then the pandemic happened.
this does not spark joy
The stream has gone live, but the presentation itself hasn't started yet.
yo okay
alright!
(pratt still sucks!)
I loved seeing the Mario 64/NSMB penguins show up
homie's fuckin raw in Bowser's Fury
like basically anybody who isn't a main character or a Bigger Bad is nearly always portrayed as shitting themselves whenever he shows up
i thought you were looking for a different material to be expelled from his body
YES YES GOOD
also apparently during the panel JB said “you’ll be surprised to see that Bowser has a musical side” which YES ABSOLUTELY YEAH
what is sneezing, if not the whole body ejaculating
I thought that was your soul trying to escape
Kind of a truism of most Saturday cartoon style storytelling. The minions will always be more willing to fight the hero than the villain because although strictly speaking the hero is stronger than the villain by virtue of... y'know, beating the villain every time - it's typically not the hero that's going to dunk you into a lava river like Judge Doom and a barrel of Dip.
That's a fun thought experiment: what Jack Black role used him least effectively? Gulliver's Travels (bad) or Shark Tale (not a good Jack Black character) are my bets
I don't know what Bowser's inside story did I haven't played it yet.
With there being Foreman Spike and DK in the cast (Sebastian Maniscalco and Seth Rogen) I'm assuming a general structure of:
And in looking up who was playing Spike, I found out that the directors of this are the guys behind Teen Titans Go! (as well as Batman: The Brave and the Bold in the case of Michael Jelenic), which raises my hopes.
It kind of sticks out in a world full to bursting with personality.
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