Zim said:
My point wasn't that Bayonetta isn't Japanese in style. I was taking issue with using the word 'Japanesey' and his view that Japanese style isn't cool.
Dante doesn't wear cowboy boots in DMC4 so I'm not sure what game you played. He wears combat styled boots with leather chaps over the top. However even if he did, cowboy style boots were and still are pretty popular in Tokyo/Osaka etc. It's started moving back towards a rounded toe boot for men much like the ones Dante wears in DMC4. I also know quite a few Japanese brands where you could find clothes similar to his style. It really wasn't very Westernised at all. Well unless we want to take a very classical view that wearing jeans etc instead of Yukata is Western, however if that is the case then Dante was never Japanese in style.
I still think Devil May Cry's style is cool. Give me over stylized compared to drab and boring any day. I'm not sure who at Ninja Theory thought wearing a wife beater was cool, perhaps someone who watches Jersey Shore?
Also the main games capcom made this generation and their scores on gamerankings? Dead Rising (85%), Lost Planet (79%), DMC4 (84%), Street Fighter 4 (93%), Marvel Vs Capcom 3 (86%), RE5 (87%).
Games capcom put in the hands of western developers? Bionic Commando (73%) and Dark Void (62%).
Then Dead rising 2 which was given to a Western developer but kept almost everything identical to the Japanese game got 80%. Lost Planet 2 was Capcom saying they were attempting to Westernise their own game, which didn't go so well (70%)!
So basically every single game they gave to a western developer or tried to westernise turned out very badly. Every game they kept Japanese did well. So you think giving DMC to a western developer to westernise is a good idea? Capcom have been giving games to Western developers or trying to Westernise their games for years now. It always ends badly. This year we will also get to see how RE: Operation Racoon City (Western) does compared to RE6 (Japanese)
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From what I understand, RE: ORC has been getting mediocre reception at demo events. Slant Six's last game was a TERRIBLE entry in the SOCOM series (which has been stumbling badly for a few years now) so they might have made another mediocre title. On the other hand RE6's reveal had a positive reception and people are EAGERLY anticipating any more news regarding it. Also, other titles by CAPCOM that have been well-received have been the VERY Japanese Okamiden, Ghost Trick, Tatsunoko vs CAPCOM, and Zack and Wiki. Resident Evil: Revelations has also been getting positive reception overall. It just baffles me as to why CAPCOM gave this series to a studio that obviously has NOTHING but contempt for Dante and all his fans. NT, as a whole, is just pathetic
