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1 Hour of Little Town Hero Gameplay from GameXplain
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Guessing you're replying to one of the usual trolls you find in Pokemon threads. Just ignore them.
when it came down to the nitty gritty discussion of GF allocating resources internally to Pokemon or to other projects like this, people always used the "fact" that GF was busy on more than just pokemon as an excuse for them gutting the National dex and removing megas and Z moves. Now people are gonna try to act like little town hero took zero development resources?
i can't even start to begin to dissect this nonsensical argument but i can guarantee you that little town hero's man-hours are a drop in the bucket to pokemon's man-hours. they certainly didn't gut anything because of it.
well tell that to the piles of people claiming that the reason GF gutted Pokémon was because of titles like Little town hero. Now that it isn't exactly a showstopper, it seems like people are backpedaling to downplay the resources needed to develop it. I've been saying gamefreak should have expanded their internal capacity for some time, and it fucking shows. Their games consistently are the worst looking 1st party releases from a technical level. Instead of splitting their teams up and putting them on different projects like this, they should have expanded their internal capacity greatly. Same goes for Creatures inc and the PokémonCG studio or whatever. This game looks rough and that's just solidifying my point.
The game was directed by the director of Pocket Card Jockey; Masao Taya:
I do wish this was by the core Pokemon folks, like having Masuda direct and compose, Sugimori doing the character designs, etc.
I do love that they got the director of the team's last Nintendo-specific non-Pokemon game back for this one, and that it's their first non-Pokemon RPG since what, SNES?
But I do by far miss seeing Satoshi in the director's chair the most. Why can't he innovate and just bring his sheer genius back to the forefront. He gave up after 3 gens with Fire Red & Leaf Green I think being his last co-directing roles.
Him on a new IP could've been a true treat. Why'd he give up on creating?
I do wish this was by the core Pokemon folks, like having Masuda direct and compose, Sugimori doing the character designs, etc.
I do love that they got the director of the team's last Nintendo-specific non-Pokemon game back for this one, and that it's their first non-Pokemon RPG since what, SNES?
But I do by far miss seeing Satoshi in the director's chair the most. Why can't he innovate and just bring his sheer genius back to the forefront. He gave up after 3 gens with Fire Red & Leaf Green I think being his last co-directing roles.
Him on a new IP could've been a true treat. Why'd he give up on creating?
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Wait, this is the new Game Freak IP? I thought this was some random indie game.
Doesn't look very appealing tbh.
Doesn't look very appealing tbh.
You're aware that this is a budget-priced game?
It competes in the same price range as indie games, so the comparison with indie games isn't wrong IMO.
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And? Any more special pleading?
It's both. The game has not even a physical release, it's a small project within Game Freak.
I think it's a good idea to let developers do something small from time to time, not only working only on loooong projects is exhausting, but if the studio does basically Pokemon games all the time I'm sure some people would prefer to do something different even if it's smaller.
Boy that's a lot of really grating sounds thrown together. I was interested in this, but it seems to be aimed squarely at 8-10 year olds and noone else.
Their internal team has grown, Little Town Hero was made by a very small team as per Toby Fox's own words, and Pokémon games are often some of the best looking on their platforms (BW2, SM, even as far back as Gold and Silver) and SWSH is certainly better looking than something like Three Houses or XC2 in handheld mode. The fact Town doesn't look amazing reflects the fact it's a cheap eShop only game.
Okay that makes sense. Aren't they working on another "big" IP that's not Pokemon, too?
No that I know, Game Freak releases some small projects on Nintendo hardware (games like HarmoKnight or Drill Dozer) and some games on other systems (Giga Wrecker or Tembo) that are basically indie games, but nothing big outside Pokemon. We know that the core team is small, and they outsource a lot for Pokemon games (at least did for SS), so I don't think we will see something big from them in the near future.
Stop this Nonsense. People don't expect BOTW, its impossible considering this franchise releases a new game every year. Its the Ambition.. Its just not acceptable anymore.
People want it, not expect it. Lotta people don't expect much of GF
True. That's just sad. The current Reputation is their fault.
Speak for yourself. What entitled bs. Evidently it's acceptable when the games constantly release to critical and commercial success.
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GF have no ambition whatsoever. I guess in 10 years they will graduate from 3DS scale games?
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10 years is too far fetched. They need time to adapt. 20 seems resonable
Lol apologies. Can you imagine how their games will look in 20 years? Easy I know.
Huh, I didn't realise this was out so soon. The gameplay looked interesting when it was shown in the direct so I'll be keeping an eye on the impressions
You guys could just PM each other this immature stuff instead
They need to fix their footage for directs, even Ori looked stuttery and yet it's actually solid 60fps
I can't tell if it's Gamexplain's video encoding or the game itself but there seems to be performance issues for this
Combat seems like the devs looked at Monster Hunter Stories and said to themselves " how can we make those battles even longer?"
This doesn't look good. I can't really put my finger on exactly what, but the characters, music, and art direction are very unappealing. Plus that boss took forever.
Oh there's an interview up here too
That's what I've been saying from the beginning, but people kept calling me crazy. The artstyle is weird (especially the textures that mostly clash with the cartoony style) and the colorpalette is just ugly.
The game looks fun though.
Basically they wanted to make a short game so that people don't have to worry about finding a lot of time to finish it, and they wanted the battle system to be very strategic instead of spamming strong attacks to finish battles quickly, while having a focused story that doesn't require large maps you get lost in.
But if a game isn't a huge open world with fast paced action combat it's not ambitious!!
That combat system looks really cool and inventive, but the slowness of it is a huge issue.
EDIT: Actually, after watching this more thoroughly, I can see that the player was painfully bad at the game and had tons of long pauses before making terrible choices. It would still be slow with an efficient player, but not as bad as I thought.
EDIT: Actually, after watching this more thoroughly, I can see that the player was painfully bad at the game and had tons of long pauses before making terrible choices. It would still be slow with an efficient player, but not as bad as I thought.
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Pretty much.
IDK how much of what I feel is allowed to be stated as mofos being banned in here but yeah ... I am someone who up until now could explain away their choices with "The HW just isn't there yet and they are NEVER gonna take the series off handhelds". The games have a ton of big ideas that it ask you to fill in for it and yeah ... you're not gonna get the world these games advertise on a GBC/GBA/DS/3DS. But when the Switch comes out and you see Nintendo whip out those big-dick game changing choices for their 2 staples to make a stand of course you'd want the same to happen for Pokemon.
But this is GF, the people who allowed ALL the 3DS main line Pokemon game's battles to run like doo doo water because they wanted to future proof the models by making them too high poly for the system ... so having 2-4 Pokemon battle on screen at once gives the game a heart attack.
I'll take what advances I can get as I'm a life long fan but I can't say that I'm happy with GF. At the very least I wish TPC still allowed spin offs. Yeah, we got Lets go (retelling of gen 1 for the .. idk, 4-5th time?) and Pokken ... where's the Switch "Pokemon MD/ Pokemon Rangers/ Pikachu Pokepark"? There use to be spin offs that looked at the world of Pokemon in different ways that were NOT made by GF and I'd really like that to come back.
But nope, Pokemon Go was a KABfikhsbf hit so we gotta get Pokemon Masters and shit. :/
As for this game I'll check out the vid later but I can't be mad at people side eyeing this when they feel like Pokemon proper could be better off with more time-money-man power pumped into it.