FunFan said:
I'm obviously using a bit of hyperbole (or am I?) and the whole concept is a huge jump in logic (or is it?) but is only with the end of putting a little bit of humor. I am serious about the core message. So I'll try a super simple version, as distiled of absurdity as I can, just for you: Xenoblade (Wii) made Nintendo a little bit more confident about console JRPGs worldwide. Xenoblade Chronicles X (WiiU) shows that Nintendo is putting more effort and is more confident about the genre. If XCX performs well, such confidence and effort will further increase. Which is great news for the RPG genre. Because when Nintendo puts actual effort into "something", good "things" happen. Splatoon is simply the lastest example. We could argue all day about how great the news are or how good those "things" are. But it is still a positive change regardles of how significant that change might be.
Heres the true version for Nintendo Fans: Nintendo is The Best. And when The Best gets involved, everything changes, as was shown by Splatoon. Xenoblade is inspiring The Best into getting more involved with JRPGs, thus JRPGs are saved. |
Uhh? it's been what... 3 years? and the Wii U still doesn't have a retail RPG.
In fact it's my biggest disappointment about the Wii U, don't get me wrong i love my Wii U but in the RPG department it's a spit to the face:
No Fire Emblem home console game
No Paper Mario RPG home console game
No third party exclusives like Pandora's Tower or The Last Story
And the worst of all, of all the JRPGs that they could have chosen (Golden Sun, Shin Megami Tensei 3rd party exclusive, Advance Wars, Dragon Quest Spinoff, Final Fantasy Chronicles, ETC ETC ETC) they pick a Idol ultra weaboo "rpg" with singing battles and highschool girls fighting dragons in a theater stage.
Seriously, there's so many legendary franchises that deserved the home console treatment... and this garbage gets choosen?
If anything, the Wii U shows Nintendo officially abandoning the RPG genre, Xenoblade isn't enough.
The 3DS is an amazing RPG machine though.