| Chazore said: This might be a hot take, but I strongly believe Japanese companies should be allowed to do their own writing/dialogue, and not allowing the West to stroll in like we've seen with Sweet Baby Inc and let them trash what we know could be done better (played plenty of Japanese games in my time to know that they can be corny, but also not as stupid as what we saw with Forspoken, when you allow Western writers to take over). I do think now is not the right time for a company like SE to release a brand new IP, seeing the general economy and how easy it is for a game to just fall on it's ass and get memed on before it even has a chance to stand back on two legs. |
Is that what actually happened though? Not that they let the west write it, more that certain companies got involved when they shouldn't. The writing team involved had worked on successful titles before, Amy Hennig was one of them (although she's credited as concept it seems), maybe they should have let her write the whole thing. The main writer listed doesn't seem to have as many credits behind their back. West or Japan, doesnt' mean the diagloue is going to be any good ( I've played FF7Remake. ;) ).
Writer's aren't the problem, vetting and auditing probably are but in the case of a Japanese made, English written, I'm guessing there would have been communication issues as well. I played the demo and the movement and combat was fun and even decent but rusty. Controls needed an overhaul, some battles felt like a slog the open world was very open because of how the movement was designed.
The game itself played well just no one was interested. It wasn't because of writing people didn't know about on release because you don't know until after release. Bad hype build up prehaps? Released at the wrong time maybe?
So, question is, if not now, when? Is the risk of a new IP so bad right now that even trying isn't worth it and you should put all your resources into releases of the same proven IPs forever? The Ubisoft and Activision style of game production? We'll end up with just a sea of sequels and never anything new.
Last edited by The Fury - on 15 March 2024Hmm, pie.
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