Board 8 > Level-5 titles may be in jeopardy of getting localized

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ninkendo
10/12/20 11:28:55 AM
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DoomTheGyarados
10/12/20 11:30:06 AM
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Please

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GANON1025
10/12/20 11:33:28 AM
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I read this topic title as like, these games are at risk of getting translated

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DoomTheGyarados
10/12/20 11:34:02 AM
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GANON1025 posted...
I read this topic title as like, these games are at risk of getting translated

Same and actually how it is written

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ninkendo
10/12/20 11:34:26 AM
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GANON1025 posted...
I read this topic title as like, these games are at risk of getting translated

the threat of having to play the Switch Yokai Watch is enough to shut them down

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mnkboy907
10/12/20 11:47:42 AM
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Level-5 how did you go so far downhill? :(

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Nanis23
10/12/20 12:40:28 PM
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Oh, how sad, how the mighty have fallen

I am not sure if it's COVID fault or Level 5 fault in general - I want to believe the latter

The Layton series went to shit just because they lost their puzzle master - but even without good puzzles the games themselves were a mess. The story of the Azran Legacy is so painfully bad.
Then they decides to let go of Layton and replace him with another lead..for no reason. No shit it bombed.

Yo-Kai Watch is one of the most disappointing games I have ever played in my life and I fucking love Pokemon
Even if I ignore the automated battle system and just focus on the monster collecting aspect - it's BAD
I watched 4 seasons of The Walking Dead while playing this and it was still not enough to befriend all the Yo-Kai - the befriend rate is that terrible
You have monsters that have like 2% chance of showing in the overworld and then another 2% to be befriended. It can take 4 hours to get a rare one.
This was a reason enough to not bother with the second and third games. I didn't even want to give them a chance

And yes, it really IS sad. Because I liked the Layton series (well, up until the fourth game at least)
And I believe I will like Ni No Kuni too, it looks good

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Waluigi1
10/12/20 12:53:53 PM
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That's sad. But also doesn't make much sense to me. Do they not sell well here?

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WazzupGenius00
10/12/20 12:59:46 PM
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Level-5 hasn't made a good non-Layton game since Dragon Quest IX, which barely even counts since they didn't do the design

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linkhatesganon
10/12/20 1:04:48 PM
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GANON1025 posted...
I read this topic title as like, these games are at risk of getting translated

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ninkendo
10/12/20 1:15:02 PM
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I probably should have used from instead of using of

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Heroic Bigpun
10/12/20 1:18:48 PM
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GANON1025 posted...
I read this topic title as like, these games are at risk of getting translated


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Nanis23
10/12/20 1:29:30 PM
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But you know it really is a sad fall from grace story
Six years ago, Level-5 was at the top. Yo-Kai Watch was a gold mine and people hyped it as a "Pokemon Killer"
It wasn't just a hype - it really looked like it's going to be, and for about a year - it was!

https://kotaku.com/the-anime-thats-taking-japan-by-storm-1558122724
https://kotaku.com/a-year-old-game-rules-the-japanese-sales-charts-1574984429
https://kotaku.com/yokai-watch-could-be-the-next-pokemon-1579999772
https://kotaku.com/how-yokai-watch-was-engineered-to-be-a-massive-hit-1602863085
https://kotaku.com/yokai-watch-2-has-already-sold-over-1-million-copies-in-1605170196
https://kotaku.com/in-less-than-a-month-3ds-game-yokai-watch-2-has-shippe-1614451575
https://kotaku.com/theres-a-good-reason-why-this-game-is-japans-current-be-1617467836
https://kotaku.com/insanely-popular-game-is-drawing-long-lines-at-mcdonald-1631852833
https://kotaku.com/marvel-at-how-yokai-watch-has-totally-overtaken-japan-1638493731
https://kotaku.com/an-unexpected-place-to-see-yokai-watch-ads-1646553690
https://kotaku.com/mcdonalds-turns-into-japans-most-popular-video-game-ani-1652139847

And then, a year later, and maybe a little too late - the game finally came to the west
It bombed, of course
But Yo-Kai Watch also started to decline in Japan
https://kotaku.com/pokemons-former-rival-yokai-watch-is-having-a-terrible-1832585148

It's scary to see how huge it was in 2014 and how no one cares about it in 2020. Fads can be nice - but not when you are trying to ride on it financially - sometimes you need to know when to stop

As J-Cast reports, when the Yokai Watch boom was in full effect in 2014, its intellectual property netted 55.2 billion yen ($499 million). But by 2015, that number had slipped to 32.9 billion yen ($297 million). The following year it was 10.4 billion yen ($93 million). That slide continued and Yokai Watchs intellectual property sales are no longer even in the merch top ten.

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Punnyz
10/12/20 1:40:34 PM
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"You might not even know they're there"

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WazzupGenius00
10/12/20 2:12:05 PM
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I forgot they bought Comcept too, what a waste of money that was

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Nanis23
10/12/20 2:48:01 PM
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WazzupGenius00 posted...
I forgot they bought Comcept too, what a waste of money that was
Oh wow lmao

Red Ash was 5 years ago and we didn't hear anything since about the game
They released that anime short 3 years ago but that's about it

Not to mention MN9 3DS and Vita versions that they lied to the kickstarter backers
Comcept is even more dead than Level 5

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MawiIe
10/12/20 9:26:51 PM
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Time to release dark cloud 3

(just kidding, I'd rather have no dark cloud game than a bad dark cloud game)

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UF8
10/12/20 9:47:24 PM
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time to actually release guild03
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Cavedweller2000
10/13/20 3:03:39 PM
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GANON1025 posted...
I read this topic title as like, these games are at risk of getting translated
Same

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swirIdude
10/13/20 4:54:48 PM
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GANON1025 posted...
I read this topic title as like, these games are at risk of getting translated


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NFUN
10/13/20 5:06:29 PM
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congratulations to all of the people in this topic who can read english. you all must feel very proud

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StifledSilence
10/13/20 6:15:28 PM
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This is depressing. I really like a lot of their games. Their selection on the 3DS especially was top notch.
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voltch
10/13/20 7:24:58 PM
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Played one Inazuma Eleven game on the DS might have been the first, was alright, but that series never seemed to reach that next level.

How were those White Knight Chronicles games? They seem to have been forgotten. Maybe for good reason?


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MawiIe
10/13/20 10:08:06 PM
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The plot was bad, and the online was like if dark cloud's town building with microtransactions.

There really was almost something cool in there, like you can see the frame of a really good game that was brought down by "well we could make more money this way."

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