Thanks for taking over, Noctis. It's lovely to have you back doing this (and you're already quicker at getting the other trackers up than I ever was!)
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vgc said: Reused assets are going to bring development costs down, and the game has yet to be released in other markets. |
If Tokyo RPG Factory were a Compile Heart studio, I can see the argument for re-used assets etc. Yet Compile Heart games sell more than Lost Sphear did. And Lost Sphear is made by Square Enix.
Square Enix, a company who have killed mid-tier IP's that were selling considerably more than this. Square Enix, who revived franchises like Star Ocean and SaGa to sell like 5-10 x more than Lost Sphear and they were still considered disappointing. In Star Ocean's case, it was turned into a mobile franchise.
Perhaps Tokyo RPG Factory can live on as a mobile RPG Factory, but for an initiative set up to relive the brilliance of old console RPG's, this is a miserable result and a sad, stark wake up call to Square Enix that their attempts to court the mid-tier of gaming can sink as low as this.
