Megaton Musashi [Level-5, Switch, PS4, mobile] TGS 2020 trailer

[sfortunato]

It looks kinda... Cool? At least in a nostalgic way.

The game was firstly announced in 2016 for, supposedly, 3DS and PS4. Now it's releasing, as a cross-media project (anime and manga), on Switch, PS4 and mobile.

 

[Deleted member 31092]

Cross media will curse this game

 

[Sander VF]

I seriously don't see the setting and designs even remotely appealing enough for its cross-media bent to be successful.

Level 5's obsession with these kind of things will be their undoing.

 

[sir_crocodile]

Lot will depend on the mech gameplay. Will get it if that's good. More cross media crap from L5 though...

 

[Oregano]

Is Hino betting this is the one he can actually release on all platforms simultaneously?

 

[Deleted member 31092]

I seriously don't see the setting and designs even remotely appealing enough for its cross-media bent to be successful.

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The last new mecha anime succesful was TTGL back in 2007, it's a genre that now lives on the back of Evangelion and Gundam. Making this game a cross media project is a very bold move (to not say outright bad).

It seems pretty kiddy, but mechs are for otakus.

 

[Sander VF]

The last new mecha anime succesful was TTGL back in 2007, it's a genre that now lives on the back of Evangelion and Gundam. Making this game a cross media project is a very bold move (to not say outright bad).

It seems pretty kiddy, but mechs are for otakus.

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The mechs themselves don't feel like they fully commit to either Real Robo or Super Robo trappings.

Like they are obvious kiddie Super Robits, but then they also have militarized "tacticool" elements to them.

 

[Delaney]

I hope somebody else likes this project.

 

[squall23]

The gameplay system pretty much looks like a more modern version of Danball Senki, just with a giant robot coat of paint.

I'd be more excited if this wasn't online.

 

[bushmonkey]

I'm disappointed with the level of polish. I'd expect better from Level5. It looks like a low budget PS3 game at best.

 

[Deleted member 8593]

I really hate the new character art. It used to look more generic before but also way more pleasing to the eye and more reminiscent of the L5 style than it does now:

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Before:

What's wit those faces? D:

 

[Deleted member 9035]

Is the linked video not working for anyone else?

 

[Oregano]

I really hate the new character art. It used to look more generic before but also way more pleasing to the eye and more reminiscent of the L5 style than it does now:

Now:

Before:

What's wit those faces? D:

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The dialogue scenes in the trailer also looked really low budget...

Is the linked video not working for anyone else?

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Looks like it has been taken down.

 

[NovumVeritas]

Is the linked video not working for anyone else?

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Yeah not working here either.

 

[youwei]

基本プレイ無料｜メガトン級ムサシX（クロス）

何度も強敵に挑み最強機体を目指せ！（Nintendo Switch／PS5／PS4）

www.megaton-musashi.jp

 

[Xadra]

I just wanted to point out that they intend to release figures along side the other cross-media products.

 

[Deleted member 9035]

基本プレイ無料｜メガトン級ムサシX（クロス）

何度も強敵に挑み最強機体を目指せ！（Nintendo Switch／PS5／PS4）

www.megaton-musashi.jp

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Thanks!

 

[hussmk]

Yikes at those production values...

It will undoubtedly flop at full price.

 

[Deleted member 8593]

The dialogue scenes in the trailer also looked really low budget...

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Yeah, the weird swaying really doesn't help. Would look way better with more static portraits tbh.

Also, I don't understand why they're showing off Switch footage here. At least the button prompts are not from the PS4.

 

[Gold Arsene]

I really hate the new character art. It used to look more generic before but also way more pleasing to the eye and more reminiscent of the L5 style than it does now:

Now:

Before:

What's wit those faces? D:

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The new art looks like a bootleg version of the Gurren Lagann eyecatches.

 

[K Samedi]

This will flop. Everything about the project looks low budget. Seems that Level 5 is stuck in the DS era with their cross media projects. These budgets will not be enough for Switch/PS4 projects.

 

[ShinobiBk]

基本プレイ無料｜メガトン級ムサシX（クロス）

何度も強敵に挑み最強機体を目指せ！（Nintendo Switch／PS5／PS4）

www.megaton-musashi.jp

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The story scenes look terrible
Those scenes legitimately look like a flash game lol

 

[Oregano]

Yeah, the weird swaying really doesn't help. Would look way better with more static portraits tbh.

Also, I don't understand why they're showing off Switch footage here. At least the button prompts are not from the PS4.

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Judging by the fact the low budget Yokai Watch spinoff is already out on Switch but not PS4 I'm guessing only the Switch version is in a presentable state. I doubt they will even release at the same time.

 

[Deleted member 8593]

Judging by the fact the low budget Yokai Watch spinoff is already out on Switch but not PS4 I'm guessing only the Switch version is in a presentable state. I doubt they will even release at the same time.

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Looking forward to Megaton Musashi + then lmao

shit, to think that I was actually looking forward to this at some point D:

 

[Igor]

I really hate the new character art. It used to look more generic before but also way more pleasing to the eye and more reminiscent of the L5 style than it does now:

Now:

Before:

What's wit those faces? D:

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It's the ketamine

 

[Firenoh]

Oh this project isn't dead? Cool. The new art is meh but at least the gameplay and mecha customization looks decent. But what happened to the announcer and jingles A.K.A. the best part of the game?

 

[youwei]

Thanks!

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your welcome

 

[StraySheep]

This will flop. Everything about the project looks low budget. Seems that Level 5 is stuck in the DS era with their cross media projects. These budgets will not be enough for Switch/PS4 projects.

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You could make 2D DS-era games just with a higher resolution and it would be a lower budget game that could do well on Switch. I hate the idea (in general) that we couldn't have DS series on the Switch.

 

[TheMoon]

It looks kinda... Cool? At least in a nostalgic way.

The game was firstly announced in 2016 for, supposedly, 3DS and PS4. Now it's releasing, as a cross-media project (anime and manga), on Switch, PS4 and mobile.

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OP, please update your post with this:

基本プレイ無料｜メガトン級ムサシX（クロス）

何度も強敵に挑み最強機体を目指せ！（Nintendo Switch／PS5／PS4）

www.megaton-musashi.jp

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[FFNB]

I love Level 5, but I'm not really feeling this one. I'm not really a big mecha fan (though I have been enjoying 13 Sentinels). I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt here, but, yeah. I'm gonna need to see more from this one. Is it even going to come to the west, though?

 

[Deleted member 31092]

I love Level 5, but I'm not really feeling this one. I'm not really a big mecha fan (though I have been enjoying 13 Sentinels). I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt here, but, yeah. I'm gonna need to see more from this one. Is it even going to come to the west, though?

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Proabably not anytime soon. L5 took a major blow when they jumped from Nintendo only to mobile and then multiplat.

 

[squall23]

I just wanted to point out that they intend to release figures along side the other cross-media products.

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They were planning Chogokin models since the reveal of this IP all of those years ago.

 

[Blade24070]

This looks meh and I really doubt this will be their new hit IP

 

[Ishaan]

Hino mentioned several times during the stream that he was reluctant to show off gameplay of the battles at TGS, but eventually decided that they needed to promote the game. The footage looks rough, and he reiterated several times that it was a work in progress, and that the game (including the UI) would see improvements. The game's being directed by one of Level 5's character designers. It's his first time directing.

Hino also provided an update on the anime, which is coming summer 2021.

Honestly, the craziest thing to me about Level 5's two-hour TGS showing was that the most impressive looking game was Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds... which is an MMO developed by NetMarble for smartphones. No word on western release (or if Namco is interested in picking it up) yet.

 

[Yuntu]

This looks really bad tbh.

 

[Oregano]

Hino mentioned several times during the stream that he was reluctant to show off gameplay of the battles at TGS, but eventually decided that they needed to promote the game. The footage looks rough, and he reiterated several times that it was a work in progress, and that the game (including the UI) would see improvements. The game's being directed by one of Level 5's character designers. It's his first time directing.

Hino also provided an update on the anime, which is coming summer 2021.

Honestly, the craziest thing to me about Level 5's two-hour TGS showing was that the most impressive looking game was Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds... which is an MMO developed by NetMarble for smartphones. No word on western release (or if Namco is interested in picking it up) yet.

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It's not that crazy when you consider that Hino specifically said Ni No Kuni is meant to be their next big franchise. Expect to see a Ni No Kuni 3 at some point soon which has a disproportionate amount of their resources poured into it.

 

[Ishaan]

It's not that crazy when you consider that Hino specifically said Ni No Kuni is meant to be their next big franchise. Expect to see a Ni No Kuni 3 at some point soon which has a disproportionate amount of their resources poured into it.

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Ni no Kuni is going to need some significant changes if L5 wants it to be a major player in the RPG space, especially in the west. Every RPG brand that's popular in the west has been laser-focused on what it's good at, and found its own niche. Just off the top of my head:

Final Fantasy - High production values, Nomura art, drama​

Persona - Immersive escapism, high school simulator, waifus​

Xenoblade - Large, alien worlds and a sense of adventure​

Fire Emblem - Approachable strategy-based gameplay, character relationships​

Tales - Anime comfort food with good combat​

By comparison, I couldn't tell you one thing Ni no Kuni is known to excel at. The "it looks like a Ghibli film" thing was impressive back in 2009, but it isn't any more. They really need to figure out what Ni no Kuni stands for, what kind of audience they're aiming at, and then hire talent specifically around those goals to make the next game.

 

[Squid Icarus]

No No Kuni could excel at being a colorful, fairytale-like, good-feel adventure for all ages, inspired by or comparable to Ghibli or Disney. I think that's focus enough for it to find its audience and niche, but with NNK2, they lost themselves within dumb chibi style overworld, base building and bizarre RTS battle sections.

 

[Oregano]

Ni no Kuni is going to need some significant changes if L5 wants it to be a major player in the RPG space, especially in the west. Every RPG brand that's popular in the west has been laser-focused on what it's good at, and found its own niche. Just off the top of my head:

Final Fantasy - High production values, Nomura art, drama​

Persona - Immersive escapism, high school simulator, waifus​

Xenoblade - Large, alien worlds and a sense of adventure​

Fire Emblem - Approachable strategy-based gameplay, character relationships​

Tales - Anime comfort food with good combat​

By comparison, I couldn't tell you one thing Ni no Kuni is known to excel at. The "it looks like a Ghibli film" thing was impressive back in 2009, but it isn't any more. They really need to figure out what Ni no Kuni stands for, what kind of audience they're aiming at, and then hire talent specifically around those goals to make the next game.

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To be fair, Ni No Kuni is probably already more popular than Tales in the west. NNK2 only sold ~100k in Japan and still sold 900k+ whereas Tales games do several times that amount in Japan and are still hovering around the 1m mark AFAIK.

I do agree though that the PS3 release managed to just hit a bit of a zeitgeist in terms of being a big budget, classic JRPG on the PS3 at a time when there wasn't much of that

 

[SinCityAssassin]

Why do they keep betting on mobile for full game launches. It has literally got them nowhere since Layton.

 

[Ishaan]

To be fair, Ni No Kuni is probably already more popular than Tales in the west. NNK2 only sold ~100k in Japan and still sold 900k+ whereas Tales games do several times that amount in Japan and are still hovering around the 1m mark AFAIK.

I do agree though that the PS3 release managed to just hit a bit of a zeitgeist in terms of being a big budget, classic JRPG on the PS3 at a time when there wasn't much of that

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Right, but I think there's something to be said for the fact that Tales has had a dozen games released in the west, and continues to grow. As much as I'm personally not a fan, I can concede that Tales knows its audience and will continue to find new ways to reach more of that audience. (Either through being on more platforms, having better production values, or more interesting locales, or doing open worlds etc. etc.) Ni no Kuni doesn't strike me as a game that's found its identity yet.

 

[Deleted member 8593]

Why do they keep betting on mobile for full game launches. It has literally got them nowhere since Layton.

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Mobile SKUs aren't actually listed on the official website anymore. They are learning!

 

[NeonZ]

The last new mecha anime succesful was TTGL back in 2007, it's a genre that now lives on the back of Evangelion and Gundam. Making this game a cross media project is a very bold move (to not say outright bad).

It seems pretty kiddy, but mechs are for otakus.

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Shinkalion was a pretty big hit with children and that's fairly recent.

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(Yes, that is an Eva, it had an official crossover)
Although that might actually get in the way of this project going anywhere.

 

[pleaseinsertdisctwo]

This game looks absolutely fucking awful.

Level 5 wtf are you doing?

Who makes these damn decisions?

This company's priorities are all wrong

All they need to do to see huge success:

1. Hire new goddamn writers
2. Fix AI for companions
3. Stop with multi-media BS

 

[waugh]

I somehow completely missed this but the thread on Level 5 made me look this up.

It definitely looks rough. The cutscenes outside of the robot look really low budget, which I guess makes sense considering L5 is struggling. Gameplay wise it looks like it could be fun.

Anyone else disappointed there's only one female character though? I feel like your average shonen anime has a couple of female characters outside of the male rivalries. I'm glad she's not just a support character though.

This game looks absolutely fucking awful.

Level 5 wtf are you doing?

Who makes these damn decisions?

This company's priorities are all wrong

All they need to do to see huge success:

1. Hire new goddamn writers
2. Fix AI for companions
3. Stop with multi-media BS

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When are you going to grow up and stop with the hyperbole.

 

[pleaseinsertdisctwo]

I somehow completely missed this but the thread on Level 5 made me look this up.

It definitely looks rough. The cutscenes outside of the robot look really low budget, which I guess makes sense considering L5 is struggling. Gameplay wise it looks like it could be fun.

Anyone else disappointed there's only one female character though? I feel like your average shonen anime has a couple of female characters outside of the male rivalries. I'm glad she's not just a support character though.



When are you going to grow up and stop with the hyperbole.

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My post wasn't a hyperbole. Your reaction to my post is acknowledged. Have a good day