Setting aside the absolute clown show dumbassery that is the title and thumbnail, this doesn't make a compelling argument at all.
To be fair I enjoyed the video more for its overall analysis of Nintendo game design in the last decade more than the theories he built from that. The part where he raises the possibility that this focus is why there hasn't been Metroid for a while is gigantic stretch, for example.
It is actually kinda tongue in cheek, but he really did a number on the way his video comes off with that.
That is true.
Three Houses is an Intelligent Systems game developed with assistance from Koei Tecmo.
Fire Emblem has very much retained its extrinsic progression rewards in every game though, regardless of whether it was made by IS directly.
IS still had oversight over the project, and it's not like Three Houses would have differed much if IS developed it. But if you want to be technical, you can use Fates, Awakening, or Shadows of Valentia as example games, they were developed in the same timeframe that the video discusses
Yeah I think the simplest explanation works best. Actually all Nintendos games try to not do the same thing twice. That's why their older games are still popular because they're unique. I think IS tried to do something new and different.
I mean, putting aside the title, the argument still isn't sound. It's a good analysis of EPD development patterns coupled with a really bad extension of that analysis to practically unrelated franchises. It falls apart really quickly when you think about it in terms of Paper Mario.
Mario + Rabbids isn't an exception though, because the team still had to get sign-off on what they could and couldn't do with the characters and world. Ubisoft didn't have free reign to do whatever they wanted.
It's an especially bizarre thing to dwell on when we know they've not exactly been sleeping on the Metroid franchise the whole time.
Why is Mario vs Rabbids an exception? Isn't this a case, where Nintendo should have a extremely strict oversight, since it is a foreign 3rd Party developer? Wouldn't be Nintendo less strict with a developer, which has a long term and close relationship with them?
But look at the characters, though. Here's early art from the pitch/concept phase:It's more of an observation. I have no idea why Mario + Rabbids is an exception. But I'm not even only talking about gameplay—so many parts of that game don't feel anything like a Nintendo published game. Everything from menu design to having their characters swear (with censoring).
A lot of parts of that game felt very un-Nintendo-like, so my assumption is that developers had some amount of flexibility.
But look at the characters, though. Here's early art from the pitch/concept phase:
See how "off model" Peach is? She's basically wearing Samus's Zero Suit and has a messier hairstyle. In the final game, Peach her standard self. The designs of the weapons in the final game are also different from this early artwork, probably to make them more fitting for a Mario game.
Nah, MP4 was probably rebooted because the development really wasn't going well.
Are things like cartoonish censored swearing really non-Nintendo, though, or just stuff you don't normally see in a Mario game because the characters just don't swear? That's a speculative line that could go either way and doesn't really make for a solid line of speculation.
The problem is Fire Emblem and Xenoblade were always by nature SRPG and JRPG respectively, even weird spin-offs like Tokyo Mirage Sessions were still rooted in the RPG side. The Paper Mario series after TYOD was always considered an Adventure game series. Hencewhy they made the Mario & Luigi series as the RPG one instead. Nintendo even said so in an interview for Color Splash iirc.
There's no concrete proof that MP4 was fully developed by an external party. For all we know, it could have been co-developed by Retro Studio.
Is that from the Paper Mario series too? 😂😂😂Did someone say murder?!
All information available suggests that it was being developed by Bandai Namco while Retro was working on whatever project they had that ended up apparently canceled.
