The problem of Zelda in Japan

[Salnax]

miz1q2w3e said:

Salnax said:

Actually, the Monster Hunter thing might be worth looking into. Could the more recent games be sabatoged by them, due to genre overlap? Or maybe the Japanese really perfer their 2D games, which is why the handheld titles have been more popular since the 3D jump. Remember how popular 2D Mario is compared to 3D Mario in Japan.

^^ I think this makes a lot of sense

Most of Nintendo's other hugely successful franchises have no other strong competitors but Monster Hunter is a pretty big franchise and has been for a while now, i think they seem close enough to some people that they might consider one over the other

The GC wasn't very popular at its time and Monster Hunter was on the rise and the Wii mainly atracted new people while people were migrating to handhelds Monster Hunter continued to get more popular

they may not be exactly the same but it's still a guy running around a big world with different weapons killing monters in an action/adveture/sorta RPG-ish fashion... just lacks some puzzles

If I had to guess, I'd say that the Japanese were never the biggest fans of the puzzle part of Zelda. Note how the combat heavy Adventure was the most Japanese-friendly Zelda of all time.