I know you are joking, but some small part of this is true. The modern anime aesthetics and provocative designs played a role in why games like Persona 5 and Nier Automata did so well. They look cool and flashy in trailers. Dragon Quest doesn't have that, even though there are a lot of cool things in the game. It's also way more of a slow burn.
Funny you would say "criminal", because somethingsomething war crime denial something.
When you don't know whether people didn't buy it because of Sugiyama or playing up his abhorrent views would have made it more appealing to Steam users.
They marketed it to the press and influencers, who then evangelized the hell out of it.
Definitely, I just hope we are assured localizations going on. Longer tail on PC sales plus the eventual Switch release hopefully keep it going too.
They really didn't lol. The press picked up on P5 themselves because of how popular P4 got, in part because of its popularity among LPers, and in part because to this day P4G remains like the one notable PS Vita game.
I mean yeah, it's unfortunate that dude is a xenophobic bigot idiot.
I'm not joking. Both Persona and Nier Automata have this super edgy badass tone that attracts teenagers and young adults. It's a style that resonates and that includes the sexuality. Sexy designs, liberated sexual tone, themes of breaking out of oppression, very visceral animation/effects/impact, angry, toys with taboo topics, etc. It's exactly the sort of thing that a subset of popular videogames thrive on.
Yeah it's made by hundreds of people who have not said a single word of condemnation about that one man. Deserves nothing.
So it's probably higher? Honestly with all the extentuating circumstances mentioned in the thread, 100k already sounds better than I thought.
Sure, but they focused a lot of their marketing efforts at events like E3 and such with closed door showings and the event badges, etc. Part of it was just having a quality game that was easy to cut good trailers for.
Yes, totally agree. Dragon Quest has none of those things.
I'm not ascribing any views on the rest of the team at all, just pointing out that they've had decades to speak up but have done nothing of that sort. Sure, it's cultural, but that's a bad culture. It enables bad people when it is seen as socially inconvenient to speak out against bad public views. In the end DQ is just a videogame, while what Sugiyama does is actual political venom. That's why I don't think just because there are other people working on the game it suddenly makes it more "deserving" of anything in particular.
I agree with you, it definitely is bad culture in this regard. Parts of the game are so contradictory to Sugiyama's views that in some way I feel this is their safe way of saying "we do not agree", particularly Horii himself. But maybe I just want to believe that.
Squenix sure hasn't done much to make people think much of anything about DQ, so an attitude like that isn't at all surprising. They are just so bad with this series.
Oh don't get me wrong, I don't think Horii shares any of those views. As far as DQ stories go, he seems like someone who truly believes in the good in people. I'm just saying that having progressive views in storytelling in a videogame isn't quite as helpful as telling an vile asshole in the public arena to stuff a sock in it. I totally understand why he doesn't do it. I just think it's unfortunate that he doesn't.
Yup, completely reasonable and I agree with you. It is very unfortunate.
Would have been great if it didn't come out the same day Spiderman did. My entire youtube feed was spiderman and literally nothing Dragon Quest. It keeps happening.
