Mad55 on 17 June 2011
| A203D said: The game was recieved poorly by fans, and its been in the bargain bin for probabily about a year. for the Japanese version even longer. no one i've met has anything good to say about this game, the only people who keep telling other people its good only seem to exist online, and even then its debatable whether they're trying to convince other people or themselves. in a nutshell word of mouth has been so poor, to the point where even the bargain bin couldnt salvage the sales - new people wont by something this badly recieved. the marketing strategy was abysimal as well. the UK tv spot showed no gameplay at all. only in game cutscenes. do you think when your marketing a game to a new auidence you should only show cutscenes - of course not. when games are advertised like say the Kevin Butler adverts, the man clearly identifies what gameplay elements in the game are extraordianry - case in point Uncharted 2. which seemed to have a really good marketing buzz! there was no demo avaliable in the west. seriously Sqaure Enix want to make this game appeal to people who've never played RPGs at all - well it helps if you show them what your selling at least. the tv spots didnt do that. loads of games get a good rap when people download the free demo from PSN or Xbox Live. the service is so accessible, you log on, you see a new demo, you see it has an average rating of 4.5, rated by 1000 people. Square thought instead it would be more useful hiring Leonia Lewis for the theme song. the game was marketed using Leonia Lewis. they just didnt get that this is not what gamers want when being shown a game for the first time. its a magic trick, to hide behind pretty graphics and nice music. it dosent show people what they actually want to see. some people fell for the magic trick - most people wernt even smiling by the time they saw how bad the game was. and laslty, for seme reason Sqaure thought it would be a good idea to put Lightning on the front cover. new gamers who've never played an RPG are going to see it and think its some sort of feminist game or some type of fan service. either way it dosent send the right message to propestive fans. it wouldve been perfectly acceptable to have Lightning and other characters on the front, or like FF7's front cover with Cloud looking up at the Shinra building - it sends the right kind of message. you have a woman on a white background, with a substantial amount of leg flesh for show. completely the wrong message you want to send. not to mention mums (moms or parents) might not want to get this game for their kids if they get the wrong idea about a too attractive women on the front cover in this type of pose - think Bayonetta! |
Seems to be the other way around for me, a good amount of online people dislike it but people outside of the net that i have met loved it. Also jrpgs usually dont have great legs.
