Bringing you all the useless and irrelevant thoughts that spew from my over active mind.
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As i wright this blog, playing over my large and masculine shoulder's is the opening sequences from the flag ship title from little know studio called platinum games.The title is Bayonetta. A fucking awesome game.
but its not really the quality of this game that i want to rant about, its the quality of the stuidio thats produced this game and 2 others.
Platinum games is a Japanese games studio, but not just any Japanese game studio. there Uber-Japanese.
Any one who has played Bayonetta will tell you how crazy the art style is, the gaming mechanics, everything is hardcore Japanese, and thats a very good thing.
The Japanese had a big hand in creating the gaming semantics in the early days of the NES. you know what i mean, plumbers that dont do any plumbing, then run around uppercutting floating, flashing, question-marks that then spew out brightly colored mushrooms that either make you bigger or give you an extra life.
Madness!But brilliant.
Thats what Bayonetta offers in spades. Good old fashioned crazy Japanese gaming.
So whats happened? why has know one bought this game?
With world wide sales of only 440,000. thats a bit shit for a game of such unrelenting class.
Its not like the game doesn't have a good pedigree either, directed by the legendary Hideki Kamiya who has been involved in many a great game. For example Resident Evil 2 and Devil May Cry just to mention two of the big sellers. So whats happing in the gaming world and why aren't great games selling?
Well i think i have an answer for that. Gamers don't want games, they want games that that look, fell, sound like films. Think about it. All the biggest selling games bill themselves as being 'cinematic' or 'episodic'
and we have trilogy's of the greatest franchises. Just like films. Mass Effect even has a film grain effect to the graphics to make it look more cinematic. Rubbish. Games are games, thats the joy of them.
Don't get me wrong i like a gritty shooter that give you an excellent narrative. Or an in-depth space opera, with epic proportions.
But thats not what games do best. Games are at there best when there not parading around pretending to be something there not. Games are best when games are being games. and thats what Platinum studios is making.
Games.
.http://platinumgames.com/
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