Are you really unclear or do you not want it to be what it clearly looks like, and what they have largely said it is?I consider it pretty freaking bad for them, that I am still unclear as to what type of game this is.
It's called the "prologue", so it pretty much is a demo of sorts. To justify the $30 cover price, they included a bunch of extras. That is customarily what companies will do to get to that price point, since you generally cannot get something out in a retail box for less than 3000 yen.The art looks really nice, might even considering getting it. Though I don't know why you're calling it a demo? Just seems like a game period.
If there is a demo out I think it's a little too late to be cancelling anything
Putting out a set that is a 36 page artbook, a physical mini soundtrack and a demo packaged together for 2900 yen is scummy????It's not even original content, it's just straight up the first three hours of the complete game?
Shit's scummy, yo.
To be fair, 3000yen artbooks are the 200-400 page books. A 36 page book is pretty much a consolation only for collection purposes and nothing more. It's a DVD case sized booklet too, so that's pretty tiny. With 13 main characters, I expect like 2 pages for each character, with most of it being a full pose taking up an entire page, and then some background art, and that's it.Putting out a set that is a 36 page artbook, a physical mini soundtrack and a demo packaged together for 2900 yen is scummy????
They specifically included physical goods to justify the price. Artbooks here in Japan are usually 3000 yen on their own.
But it's not Vanillaware's call. Atlus is the pubisher, Atlus is funding the game, and Atlus owns the IP. If Atlus wants to stop paying for continued development of the game and doesn't want to market and distribute it, they'll cancel it.Vanillaware notoriously takes a long time with their titles, and has no problem shipping at a loss for the sake of quality, so they'll find a way.
This game is still a thing?
Should have made Dragon's Crown 2 instead.
But it's not Vanillaware's call. Atlus is the pubisher, Atlus is funding the game, and Atlus owns the IP. If Atlus wants to stop paying for continued development of the game and doesn't want to market and distribute it, they'll cancel it.
I don't see the Ground Zero comparison, at least GZ was a true prologue and was completely different from the main game. This sounds like it is literally the first few hours of the game and the save game wont even carry over to the final release if it ever comes....
It's kinda like a telltale type of visual novel I guess. I would like them to spend as much time as possible since the graphics are hand drawn iirc.idk wtf they were thinking with this game. If your company is treading on thin ice you don't spend years on a visual novel.
Kojima did that with Metal Gear Solid V: GZ
I really don't think they would. Vanillaware is very, very small (the entire development budget for Dragon's Crown was just over $1m) and unless there are ongoing big problems with development it would be a huge waste to can it. Their games perform very strongly and consistently and their digitally released titles have enjoyed very successful shelf lives. It's been a long road for this game and stuff has changed massively, no doubt, but I just can't see it getting cancelled at this point unless the demo is genuinely very bad. Shipping an early version like this is indicative of development presently going the right way, and there's nothing right this second outside of pure speculation that indicates a content or quality problem.
Yeah, it's hard to emphasize just how small they are. That's why I sort of feel 13 sentinels is really safe. Even multiplying that budget multiple times is still safe for the numbers they usually do.$1 million budget? Have... You got a source for that? Because that sounds ludicrous.
Edit: found my own source. What the.... I don't even understand how that's possible.
Hopefully nothing because I'm buying the demo!
No, no, there's been news about it (when they announced it and it isn't a Vita game (they canceled the Vita version).can I buy the demo now? will it be available in English? why has there been like no news on this? this also feels like a great Vita title.