>American devs
“Our mascot needs to look COOL and EDGY and SMUG on the cover art to show how friggin’ awesome he is!”
>Japanese devs
“Our mascot doesn’t need to look cool, we have faith in his design.”
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>we have faith in his design
well don't those japs feel silly now?
And the Americans, really.
Blinx failed in both countries.
This game was literally released a year after the towers collapsed, two years before Ganker was created, and ten years before you were born, anon.
It was a different time and without being there you unironically, genuinely, literally could not understand.
Do zoomers even have a "killed my childhood" moment? They have AI generated porn of everything.
zoomers are up to 26 years old anon
i googled renamon before safesearch existed
i was fine
my childhood was not ruined
I miss Blinx so bad bros. Literally my first mascot video game i played back when I was maybe 5 or 6. The vibrant colors, music, the awesome intro in the Time Factory. the concept of bending reality to control time like a TV remote at you own will. It was amazing back then. And I love Blinx himself. He’s always been one of my fav characters just from the first game alone (never cared much for the sequel). The plot was pretty cool too; an entire world has been corrupted and is on the brink of ruin. The higher-ups of the time factory seal off the world to protect the other worlds like amputating an infected limb. All of the Timesweepers are scrambling to get out of there out of there, but Blinx ALONE rushes in, stands at the portal, and jumps in knowing he has to save them. Goddamn I loved this game, flawed as it may be.
I once had a dream when I was a little kid where I was a lone human boy trapped in a similar scenario as the humans in the game. I think I was in an alleyway between two brick buildings, and there was fog everywhere. I was just “waking up” from the after effects of the time stasis of the world being frozen in time, and I see a bunch of the Timesweepers running around cleaning things up and prepping to leave the world, and they’re a bit surprised I’m awake before they left. I wanted to know who they were and what happened. I don’t remember the details but they said something short but kinda awesome to me as a kid, then I look behind me in the fog is cleared, and I see people walking past the alleyway, and I turn to face my front again, and the time sweepers are gone. And I was sad they were gone… but I was happy to know they saved the world.
i miss him too
Explain this one
>left
Le protagonist looking le cool in a le cool location.
>right
Shows what you’ll experience when playing the game.
you experience everything depicted in both covers
>le
does Reddit do this anymore or is it just ‘ironic’ morons at this point?
It's been a decade, whether reddit does or not is irrelevant, they are still morons.
>is irrelevant
When people turn into the things they mock a decade after the fact is my point
>b-but muh le!
stop
Are they the same game? The Japanese subtitle says "the golden sword and the missing fleet". Or rather "disappeared fleet", but it sounds strange.
moron
What? Right doesn't even have a "2". Never played the games.
I don't care if you played them, subtitles being different in other countries is common, and even if you didn't know that, it takes 2 seconds to simply check the Japanese Wikipedia entry for the game
Looks like someone is feeling a little inferior because they only know one language
Yeah. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception would be called Uncharted 3: The Hidden City of Sand or something in Japan.
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End would be called Uncharted: The ______ Pirate's Fleet/Treasure. I don't remember the full name.
Left is showing how COOL he is
right looks like a movie poster
>Have faith
>In Blinx the Forgotten Sweeper
In the world of video game Mascots Mario is god, Sonic is King, and Blinx is the janitor.
Blinx is the trash the jannies sweep, pretty sure Microsoft straight up let go of his trademark.
>Sonic is king
Crash Bandicoot has a better legacy at this point.
>Crash Bandicoot has a better legacy at this point.
lol
meanwhile sonic legacy is sonichu with CWC trooning out and fricking his senile mother
Which game?
Problem with JP covers is that they usually would have less busy visuals but don't make up for it with something interesting unless they are outright showing the whole cast of the game (super mario RPG remake is a good modern example of what I mean) or in the case of RE4 for example the more minimal look is so unique it doesn't even fit the game, americans have the opposite problem where it needs to be as attention grabbing as possible
>draw a dude that looks remotely androgynous if you don't look at it directly
>call it a non-binary
It's like this is the PG version of gender identity shit?, I can see a lot of devs doing it just to get woke shit out of the way without having to change anything about the character, saying it's non-binary tells literally nothing about it even "asexual" back in the day when that was cool had more implications
The thing with non-binary is that it's purely a label thing with zero physical characteristics required for it (because it's for attention seekers). They could given him some giant breasts and they'd still be able to call him non-binary
You mean Orange Sonic?
https://twitter.com/CrashBandicoot/status/1669100086079655936?cxt=HHwWgMDQ1evr6qkuAAAA
I'd accept calling Mario better, but no Sonic game is as good as Blinx. Blinx is a puzzle platformer, Sonic is a sleep check (the game from time to time performs actions to confirm you're not sleeping)
Better is irrelevant.
Staying power is all that matters.
Master Chief would be to Microsoft what Sonic is to Sega and Mario is to Nintendo though.
What do you even mean by this?
The Chief=Sonic I can buy but the Mario comparison has thrown me off.
You're the one who has to explain why it threw you off.
You keep telling yourself that
>no Sonic game is as good as Blinx
I'll readily admit that most 3D sonic games aren't great, but SA1 is the best one and is much better than blinx
t. finished SA1 and Blinx for the first time last year
explain this
They stopped caring at that point.
convince me to play this game. I always see its stupid cover on goypass
People mock Americans trying to make cartoon mascots in videogames edgy but now we have adults that watch modern cartoons that show up on network channels originally for kids but with therapy sessions and young adult novel style writing
At least American box art Kirby wasn't that pretentious
Okay but left mogs right doesn't it? Do I just have shit taste?
>remember seeing commercials and magazine advertisements for Blinx
>then... nothing
>10+ years later he's still a subject of ridicule
I never had an XBox growing up, but goddamn it feels like this game offended people so bad they just refuse to let go. Was Blinx really that awful, or just so strikingly mediocre despite all the money Microsoft was dumping in, that he became the butt of jokes from back when XBox was new.
It was a game with a shitty narrative and shitty gameplay, if i had to describe it then it would be the bastard child of bomberman 64 and kirby.
I know nothing about this game, but the soundtrack from the last boss was amazing
Jesus christ what a boring track, sounds like a skipping CD
Japan does it better
Western fake anime is so bad you can't even construct effective bait with it
>Hm yes we will compete with the big 2 mascot video games
>Do almost no widespread advertising
>Do almost nothing to create a name in a saturated market
>literally just pushed some slop because some drugged out hunter biden tier exec demanded the sonic and mario killer
They said the era of game mascots was dead and prefered to focus on Halo. They literally had Blinx 2 releasing in the same day as Halo 2 and the game flopped hard predictably.
They knew the game was going to be shit so they took the decision to kill it this way.
Then they made Voodoo Vince as a new attempt to bring a mascot to Xbox, and that failed too, the game was kinda shitty and not comparable to Pshchonauts, which became a cult hit.
Don't forget, this was around the same time Microsoft stole Halo from Apple. They literally sabotaged one mascot for another. 20 years later, Yuji Naka is in jail and Microsoft currently owns Banjo, Crash and Spyro. I wonder if Ohshima would ever consider reviving Blinx.
If Blinx 1 was remade I'm sure the game would be better critically claimed. Because the game is GOOD. It only really needs some tweaks in the gameplay.
You can't make Sonic Adventure a good game in any way no matter how much you polish that turd. Sega tried.
>If Blinx 1 was remade I'm sure the game would be better critically claimed.
No.
>Because the game is GOOD.
No.
>It only really needs some tweaks in the gameplay.
More like a full overhaul.
>You can't make Sonic Adventure a good game in any way no matter how much you polish that turd. Sega tried.
Precisely.
>No
It's a simple puzzle/platform game.
How to make it good: improve the character movement (especially in slippery stages) and camera.
I think that would be it, really. You don't need to make much else to turn this into an interesting game.
Everything else could remain as is because it works well as a puzzle game.
Sonic however? How would you improve that turd? The stages are unsalvageable.
>It's a simple puzzle/platform game.
Correct, it's anno domini MMXXIII, and puzzle platformers have struggled HARD outside nintendo's pikmin 4, and even then that one is being carried hard by nostalgia not being all that great.
>How to make it good: improve the character movement (especially in slippery stages) and camera.
The camera would help, but that doesn't change that the puzzle element that blinx has is extremely bland, it consists of going onto an arena and kill a set number of enemies that hardly target you or clean rubble from a path, sometimes it adds the time warp mechanic but that's 100% optional so you may as well ignore it outside of like 4 key points in the game, so again, the puzzle mechanic is not good, it's there but even the game disregards it.
>I think that would be it, really. You don't need to make much else to turn this into an interesting game.The story of Blinx is you are a jobber of the time factory, which regulates and controls time, which is represented as different crystal shapes because...??? then a band of thieves take over a dimension and fricks with the time stream so the jobbers have to unfrick it. The titular Blinx however doesn't go fix the problem, he decides to confront the theves because they have a 10 year old captive and he has a boner for her, BASED.
>Everything else could remain as is because it works well as a puzzle game.
The layout of the levels is terrible too, there's barely anything to save
>Sonic however? How would you improve that turd? The stages are unsalvageable.
Correct.
Oh your tring to debate me on a "wouldn't be popular tho" point of view.
Dropping this discussion. + I hate people that make long posts with quotes like you. Die.
>Oh your tring to debate me on a "wouldn't be popular tho" point of view.
Yes, you fricking imbecile, what do you think you were doing?
>Dropping this discussion. + I hate people that make long posts with quotes like you. Die.
Kek.
Americans ruin everything
JP cover looks kinda awful here.
They got rid of the nig though
JP art actually makes me kinda interested in Crackdown ngl.
They definitely were going for a Lupin the 3rd-esque art style. (Example pic 1 of 2)
I think monkey punch himself drew the cover.
At least it doesnt have an ugly Black person on it.
Said ugly Black person is the main character of the game. The white male on the JP cover does not exist.
I know. It still is an ugly Black person.
At least you can use other skins in the game.
NOOOOOOOOOOO YOUR MASCOT JUST CANT LOOK COOL AND EDGY AND SMUG ON THE COVER ART TO SHOW HOW FRIGGIN’ AWESOME HE IS, HE DOESN'T NEED TO LOOK COOL BECAUSE WE HAVE FAITH IN HIS DESIGN
Blinx the dick sweeper.
(Example pic 2 of 2)
US cover art
Japanese cover art
Left looks better, right might appeal to you more if your a gay zoomer