Madworld was decent but it wasn't mindblowing, same for Infinite Space, and Anarchy Reigns might still be their worst game ever. Starfox is on Miyamoto way more than it is on Platinum.Īnd even the 'golden years' or whatever you're claiming weren't all sunshine and rainbows. Meanwhile, I also think Transformers was all around a decent to good experience too. The game got a ton of great reviews and sold over a million copies, so I don't think it's fair to frame it as such. And respectively, I massively disagree Astral Chain was anything less than good. Platinum Games has always struggled to secure funding and stability, and that's why they took so many 'minor' projects compared to their biggest budget ideas where they've had more freedom to do what they wanted with bigger budgets and more development time. Platinum Games has literally come out and said they took a bunch of quick licensed deals to support the studio while working on other major projects and then also Nintendo rushed them into a Starfox project as a quick and easy partner that they had limited control over. It really comes across as grafting Scalebound design and assets into the game because they already had the work done, and I'm starting to think there was a very valid reason it was cancelled by Microsoft Likewise the gimmick boss battles were the worst thing about Bayo 2 and no one really asked for more of that. Imagine if they dumbed down the combat in Dark Souls from Demon's, made it easy and focused even more on the lame gimmick boss battles for the sake of appealing to people who didn't like Demon's Souls in the first place. This is why FromSoft stays selling extremely well despite making pretty niche games. Point is DMC5 saved the franchise because they realize that they needed to return to what made it popular in the first place.Īlienating what fanbase you had by focusing on the things they didn't really want in an attempt to appeal to other markets rarely works very well to make your game more popular. Click to shrink.So? The hook is that they're relatively easy to play but reward you for mastering the gameplay.

Bayonetta 3 gameplay trailer