When is Gust going to take a break from Atelier and make more games for their other IPs like Ar tonelico/nosurge, Nights of Azure, etc.?
When is Gust going to take a break from Atelier and make more games for their other IPs like Ar tonelico/nosurge, Nights of Azure, etc.?
Isn't Ar tonelico stuck in copyright hell being made from 3 different companies and the guy from Bamco/Banpresto's side quit?
Solution: make another new series that's as good as Ar tonelico. They already did it once so it's possible to do it again, right?
I'd fucking LOVE it if they did another Mana Khemia. Those were some of the best games they ever made.
We were lucky. If ciel nosurge is made 5 years later ion's costumes and interactions would be behind a paid gacha.
I'd only ever pay for Earthes costumes.
They just did Blue Reflection 2. And it has a gacha.
New EXA_PICO game literally never ever, KT hate Tsuchiya with a burning passion and they don't do fanservice games anymore.
I doubt that they are allowed to do much experimental stuff under KT now. KTs project plan is full on globalizing bullshit. Strengthening oversea market, building global presence for their cashcow IPs, becoming a global brand and such stuff.
I actually hope they leave nosurge dead because I really don't want them to touch Ion.
The ports were already such an insane cashgrab
>The ports were already such an insane cashgrab
You say cash grab but they bombed massively since marketing for them didn't exist at all.
They definitely don't have enough manpower to do something other than Atelier now that they're also making gachashit. Their two main teams are both working on console Atelier at all times.
I remember that they made ports of Ciel no Surge and Ar no Surge for the Switch, but they gave it literally, not even exaggerating, zero marketing whatsoever to the point that they just shadow dropped the games and nobody even realized they released (I didn't find out until almost 2 years later) and they didn't even make it into the top 30 in Famitsu sales charts.
And since they sold so horrifically bad in Japan they didn't bother localizing them and thus that franchise is just completely dead now.
They also censored the steam ports.
It's literally over.
What did they censor again?
>censor game on steam
>it's region locked anyways
KT has an insane fear of western journo, they also removed the ability to touch the girls in DOAVV despite being an asia-only game because some roasties in the west complained about it.
Same for Atelier, despite Ryza's popularity, her games have no fanservice other than the design of the female characters, which shouldn't count as fanservice in the first place.
Its obvious e-boi bait but its not sexual at all, nothing is shown, and as a terminally online sexual deviant, this is doing nothing for me. If you told me the one on the left was a guy, i'd believe you. Seems like a really silly thing to censor.
Switch has it uncensored right? No EN releasee though.
FUCK
>And since they sold so horrifically bad in Japan they didn't bother localizing them
They never had plans to do so in the first place, all their games have simultaneous or almost simultaneous worldwide releases now.
>they didn't even make it into the top 30 in Famitsu sales charts
Ar did both on PS4 and Switch and Ciel did on Switch: https://www.gematsu.com/2021/03/famitsu-sales-3-1-21-3-7-21
Granted, they were very low sales, but the price point was ridiculous.
How much were they even selling for? Because even the expensive Etrian Odyssey remasters managed to do decently.
6,380 for each game along with some obscenely expensive limited editions.
and those were a bit disappointing
The silver stuff is good but gold was disappointing for the extra you paid.
The box, letter and drama CD + extra song was really nice, but the "calendar" and the crystal holder were just useless. I have no idea what to use the crystal keyholder even for. It's too big and heavy to use as a normal keychain and as decoration for some keys at home it also just looks bad because they crammed in a whole model of Ion so you don't even recognize what it is.
Even just some nice, but high quality keychains would have been better.
I've also seen some Japanese complaining online about the quality of the goods int the 110k 7d edition
At least that was only steam, switch and (funnily) ps4 are unchanged. They probably got unlucky with their reviewer
>Bring back the best game they ever made
>Mobile gacha bullshit
lmao this fucking company is retarded
There is still hope, anon
The upcoming Atelier is gachashit and when they announced it, fans immediately told them to go fuck themselves
I bought Ar nosurge twice in a year in order to bath with Nero.
Same, I bought the game both on PS3 and on Vita and I have accepted that I'll never see another EXA_PICO game in my lifetime, probably for the best considering KT current direction.
>there's a full english let's play playthrough of Ciel nosurge online down to every last detail
>literally fucking impossible to find this english patch online
wtf
Because there's no patch, it's the uploader directly editing the translation in his videos.
Apparently as of last August they're still editing the translation.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/revatail_hymmne/ciel-nosurge-offline-translation-patch-project-t1044-s70.html
>fantl has been stuck in development hell for 5 years
>more than enough time for someone to start learning japanese to play the game in native language
Just give it up
>it's too much effort
>I just don't have the TIME to invest in learning a useless skill when other people will do it for me
>wtf why is this STILL not available in english? this is bullshit,
I sure wish they didn't murder Blue Reflection, but here we are.
The BR gacha got censored lmao
Anything that speeds its demise up is welcome, it's a blight.
i love how this series just speedruns making people lose interest in it, first it was yuri now censors
In this case, Apple is to blame. Pic related is only censored on iOS for example.
However, it remain to be seen whether KT can be arsed to maintain 2 differents version of the game or just say fuck it and just censor all versions.
I hate these fucking race to the bottom, it's also pre-censors new designs by default.
Why does ar nosurge feel like a no budget piece of shit idea factory game? Theres clone npc everywhere even right next to eachother, many unvoiced scenes, more akward animations than usual and even stuttering on vita.
Atelier feels so high end compared to this, and its not even soulful because atelier does that way better
Because it actually doesn't have a lot of budget and most of what they had was used for the music.
Damn good music tho
Is it even worth finishing?
Yes.
If you like any of the characters, then yes. That scene with Ion and Earthes will always live on in my head.
ESG company now and fanservice not allowed.
Gust don't make good games anymore.