Making only 140 million yen on opening weekend (that's about $1.3 million US).
That doesn't look good. They should have tried to get Ghibli back for it. The utter mismanagement of Level-5 continues.
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Ni no Kuni movie bombs at Japanese box office
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Making only 140 million yen on opening weekend (that's about $1.3 million US).
That doesn't look good. They should have tried to get Ghibli back for it. The utter mismanagement of Level-5 continues.
I didn't even know there was one. I'm starting to worry about Level 5 a bit. They seem all over the place.
Except the games aren't bad, especially the first, which was fantastic.
you are too generous, im expect next year lots of cancellation sadly
I can see the re-release of NnK1 doing well on Switch but yeah I figure the franchise is done now, which is something of a shame, though I feel 2 already lost the magic the first had.
I like Level-5 but I think they work better in conjunction with other studios or individuals. Like, the setting and exploration of Yo-Kai Watch are fantastic, but the battles suck. They just need to push their strengths (art, graphics, visual storytelling) and partner with someone else. Bandai Namco seemed pretty hands-off with NnK, which was a problem.
And stop chasing the merchandise train because it's way too transparent.
I like Level-5 but I think they work better in conjunction with other studios or individuals. Like, the setting and exploration of Yo-Kai Watch are fantastic, but the battles suck. They just need to push their strengths (art, graphics, visual storytelling) and partner with someone else. Bandai Namco seemed pretty hands-off with NnK, which was a problem.
And stop chasing the merchandise train because it's way too transparent.
They tried to make a NNK movie without Ghibli involved? The success of the original game IMO is largely due to Ghibli's involvement. To go on and make a movie, based on a mildly successful videogame franchise (with only two entries), without the key element that made the original game as successful as it was... who could've guessed it would bomb.
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I expect a big company to buy them out. Probably Square-Enix or CyGames.
Damn, I mean I didn't expect to be amazingly successful or anything but this is pretty terrible.
Yeah I heard the movie was pretty bad. Even in the trailers I could count the frames in some scenes.
Over dependance on HUGE multimedia franchise. Yokai watch started to bomb with 3, Fantasi Life never got up, they lost the Ghibli work relationship for Ni no Kuni even thought the first one was a huge carp, Inazuma Eleven has too many games and wasn't the Pokémon killer they wanted... I'm wondering if they will ever release Snack World. They have lost focus.
So, their "crossover" franchise with WB is next?
Looks like they're still on that trajectory.
Bled their properties dry and have stumbled trying to their new stuff out the past three or so years. A lot of the kids who were into their stuff grew out of it as well. They were never going to be the next Square though.
Makes about as much sense as everything else they're doing.
Yeah, I don't really see the value in buying them with the current state of their properties.
Sorry, but you can't say this about the people that made Professor Layton.
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Their panel at Anime Expo confirmed it is coming. No idea when the anime is coming but the game (Switch version) is out next year. Not that it would do much... it was clearly made to capitalize on Adventure Time but by the time it came out, Adventure Time was deep in seasonal rot. Now it's not even on the air.
They caught a break once, but then milked that till it died.
Probably acquired by Sony or Nintendo after Megaton Musashi flops on all fronts
Yo-Kai Watch was the first franchise to threaten Pokemon success.
They released snack world already, on 3DS and Switch. They were only moderate successes.
The big problem here was their early pivot investment into mobile, it essentially crippled their development training for any of their tried franchises that weren't Yokai Watch. Stagnation would become evident while they spent all their remaining energy trying to recourse with NNK2.
They wanted to be Pokemon without the compelling IP to sustain such a multimedia franchise, and the franchises that did take off were run into the ground like Yokai Watch.
you giving Ghibli too much praise they not so hot lately either, nothing would of save the film.
people just want the next thing everything level 5 created had its time in history they need to move on from the names that use to bring them loads of money
what kills a company faster is trying over And over with same franchise hoping to get back on the money trail instead it depletes their money
They've had multiple breaks. The DS era up to a few years ago was them finding hit after hit culminating with YW2 being a massive thing. It's just since then they've only gotten Snack World, Lady Layton, more YW, and NNK2 out.
I disagree. Maybe they made good games at some point in the past, but I don't think it excuses their current dwindling output.
