| Baddman said: this astral chain stuff is weird the game was Co-directed by Kaori Ando and unless something changed she is Nintendo employee |
Huh ... one of the other co-directors was also an EPD employee ...
I mean, I knew Nintendo's relationship with Astral Chain was mighty unusual. PlatinumGames was actually commissioned to make the game before Nier Automata, but given the Astral Chain team got the offer to make Automata, Nintendo let them take a break on the project till Automata was finished (most likely because they knew the Wii U was a flop by then, lmao). They literally let a developer take a 3 year hiatus from a project they commissioned them to do. But I had no idea that two EPD developers co-developed it.
It makes some sense though, iirc the team at Platinum wanted to turn it into more of a Pokemon meets Action kind of game, and Nintendo is actually the ones who reigned them in and told them to make each Legion of one unique type.
