Project Harmony

imagine joining the studio that made the fucking Prime trilogy and then having to work on this for years

it's 2015

The Wii-U is flopping HARD, it NEEDS a heavy hitter

A generic Mario Tennis game is announced

A shitty Animal Crossing Mario Party clone is announced

More of the Star Fox game is revealed but it looks...off. Like in a weird way

Also for some reason Nintendo spat in your face and revealed Federation Force and it looks like shit

Okay, things are bad now BUT you still have hope

At the end of Nintendo's direct, they say "One more thing...a new IP."

Retro Studios name pops up

YES, HERE WE GO! FUCK YEAH LET'S FUCKING GO

This shit is revealed

Can't even begin to imagine what the threads on Anon Babble would've been like that day

Onirism 3 is looking good.

Why did they pivot so hard though
Like I get it, you want to carve out your own identity and not be known as just the Metroid or DK guys
But....your first original IP is a young children's singing game?

exactly

it's insane how shit americans are at making videogames by themselves

looks like Carol

Retro was working on this?

same people who made this kiddy shit made this right afterwards

what a change of tone

Is that treehouse footage? I hadnt seen it before
I wish they made a shmup level

why is this guy so schizo about this unfinished game?

Yup
It was a musical RPG, whatever that means

I'm guessing the Gamepad's mic would've been used for singing

doesn't look like an rpg at all, it's some kind of action adventure platformer like jak and daxter

Visuals remind me of spyro

And that's all I got.
I think as a little cute rhythm based adventure game it could've been decent. Not sure why it took them 6 years though

I would had bought this unironically

yeah
youtu.be/9W9xes7BZto

Imagine being a federation grunt and then Samus shows up behind you to save your ass. Then you realize you'll never be that cool and become depressed.

this legit look like it's made for actual toddlers, I know the epic memers of Anon Babble will say it's normal because it's a nintendo game but even for them the tone is insanely saccharine

Also her name is apparently Lumie from the game files

That "it's working! All together now!" Makes me think you would've had to sing into the Wii-U Mic and fuuuuuuuuck that shit
Can you imagine singing this shit

mindbroken snoytranny

the only thing that matter is, can we access her model and pose it n lewd ways

Anon..........most likely!
But the question is will anybody care enough to do lewds

it's not normal, and Nintendo games aren't this kiddy, that's why they canceled the game. Let's not forget that Miyamoto cringed at the artstyle of Wind Waker

You just know

reread the post half a dozen time slowly you daft nigger

western creature designs fucking suck

that's exactly what I meant

it's completely tone deaf, it reminds me of the iwata asks interview where miyamoto said he had to teach a younger dev a lesson because the dev wanted mario to say "where's my mommy" in a cutscene and miyamoto told him mario shouldn't act like a newborn and have a certain amount of coolness

no
cope and seethe

dilate and sneed

I mean this kind of shit happens a lot nibba, the guy who directed every Mad Max movie has also directed Happy Feet

How would you rework this game to make it "for all ages" and not just for kids?

souls combat but easier

Wait, are the feds flying ships that look like the classic gunship?

sex minigame

I was wondering what they were doing for the past decade
What a clown show

At least it was a new series, instead of being just another Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Pokémon...
Instead of cancelling the whole thing, Nintendo should have been more strict about the deadlines, maybe even send them a Japanese director to keep them focused.

the main protagonist is now a milf with huge milkers and fat thighs

she summons cute shotas instead of ugly retarded dreamworks entertainment monsters

12 children

they made federation force canon

Retro can't make an original IP to save their lives, news at 11.

youtube.com/watch?v=4i7P9nbOTvA

out of?

Just because it's new doesn't mean the idea is worth pursuing. With how safe and sanitize the concept was, it's clear this game would've had no real audience.

Revamp the Artstyle to make it less generic
Based

Just because it's new doesn't mean the idea is worth pursuing.

case in point: cripple basketball

Any attempt Retro has made to make a new IP ends up in disaster and why Prime 1 even exists.

Remember when NST tried to do Project Hammer and got sent to Minis hell for a decade? Retro is lucky theyre not shut down.

Any lewds of the girl yet?

Nintendo isn't precisely known for making arty or risky games. They always play safe, that's one of their defining traits. This game could have worked with some changes in the designs.

lol, watching this video made me realize that Retro is very lucky that Nintendo didn't shut down the studio years ago.

Girl is cute would sex

Nintendo are masters at making stuff "for kids" but injecting it with more mechanically involved gameplay, darker and more threatening tone form the antagonists even when they're still super cute, irreverent humor, and an overall sense of adventure and urgency to do stuff in the game. If this game had a proper direction they probably would've ended up with something like the Yoshi or Kirby games.

Weren’t they working on some sort of rhythm game?

working on this

for years

dude, they weren't working on it, that's the joke
they just made some assets to show off to the nintendo reps and get free money for staying at home

And?

the ugly spyro remakes, maybe.

at least link to anon's dl for the playable build

Viva Pinata is all ages and has a stronger artstyle and gameplay loop that appeals to a wider group of people.

I get fucking Winx Club vibes looking at this game its for little girls. People joke about the farmer dance scene in Balan but Harmony is even more cringe.

Why am I meant to be mad about this

Because Retro spent 6 years on this and not an actual good game.

double jump

YYYYYYY attack string

wall jump

ground pound

cartwheel

it's like the most boring set of mechanics you could possibly come up with

zero interesting idea that'd differentiate it from other nintendo games or even from basic low budget action adventure games from the gamecube era

she's stillborn

Nintendo isn't precisely known for making arty or risky games.

Nintendo game devs have literally defined some genres

I thought this was a horse show fan game when I saw the image

Ok, so the game design looks like it was temporally transplanted from 2004 to 2017, but I think I know the reason for that.
Retro, being part of Nintendo, are aware of Breath of the Wild during its development, and see that if Zelda is going in a new open world direction, then there's a vacuum left in Nintendo's usual Action Adventure output.
So they decided to fill that. Knowing Nintendo's track record of taking what could be new IPs and slapping an existing IP on them if the design fits close enough. This happened with Rare's Dinosaur Planet becoming a Star Fox game, and Retro's own FPS becoming Metroid Prime.
So since they assume this is going to happen again, they kind of phone in the characters with Pixar knockoffs because they're assuming Nintendo is going to tell them to make it a _____ series game instead.
More specifically, they seemed to be banking on being told to turn it into a Zelda title.
This is why the test map in the other build is literally a 3D version of a Zelda 1 dungeon, and why there's a musical focus.
OoT/MM/WW/SS all have music as a mechanic, and if you remember the implementation of the damn harp in SS, Nintendo seemed fine with really half-assed implementations. They just had to do better than *that*

To think, I used to have such a high opinion of Retro. Well, I guess I still do, all the games they released are good. Nintendo has some pretty good tard wrangling stories. The girl's cute at least, super flat, tube top. Hope I find her in a booru.

Make her a Shantae clone

I think it sort of makes sense. The game reminds me of a throwaway Xbox title of the mid 00s, so maybe it's someone's idea from that era. That and they look at what smaller indie devs are making with more relaxed and slow paced games about making friends with forest animals and junk. Stuff more for women and little girls that deliberately breaks traditional gaming conventions. It works for smaller companies, but the larger ones stay away from that limited market appeal if they really want their games to sell.

idk but a couple people ITT are trying really hard to for some reason

Vanpool and Alpha Dream got fucked because nintendo didnt own them despite their contributions to the company

Retro gets off scot free even though their employees quit after every project

Gonna be hilarious when Prime 4's lead devs leave right after cause they dont wanna make metroid then open up a new shitty studio thats forgotten instantly

sloparoonie

Yeah but if anybody at Retro played Kameo they would know it wasnt very good. Ghoulies is only slightly better if they wanted a gameplay style to copy.

Has someone gone through the whole demo on a non-potato PC yet

how did this leak whats the story? An ex employee maybe?

no lewd of her posted yet? Anon Babble getting slow

Someone obtained a switch dev console somehow

without nintendo looking over their shoulder. Retro tends to struggle

many such cases
at least he didnt mail it back to nintendo like that one xbox guy

other build

there's another one?

Is this the game that was censored on the that piece of art that Retro gave to Reggie?

It doesn't look that bad desu

If someone can get the materials ready, I would be capable.

Maybe it was the passion project form someone who really liked those sort of games and everyone just went along with it before Nintendo said wtf you guys doing?

Probably a bit of this too. Retro saw a gap in traditional Zelda and wanted to make something to fit that niche except they miscalculated by attempting to fill a gap in something with more male appeal with something with more female appeal.

could be worse, at least the girl was white

There were 3 builds in the leak.
01004b9000490000_RS11 312.8 MB
01004b9000490001_RS11 312.8 MB
01004b9000490000_RS11Full 9.1 GB
One is just the main character on a test map and one is the mostly functional version in the OP.
The third build is just the test map again and I'm not sure what the difference is.

Poor Man’s Lip

no she isn't, she's orange

Face looks too ios emoji like. Maybe it was intentional for zoomer familiarity.

Games like this that get stuck in development hell for a long time before being quietly axed are extremely common, you just tend not to hear about them.

Okay, why are people constantly raging about this? Even if this was supposed to be just a very child friendly game...so what? You guys are unironically making it look like you'd shit and piss yourselves from anger if kirby, Spyro, Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong Country, Ape Escape, Megaman Battle Network, De Blob, Billy Hatcher or any fucking colorful and cartoony game that is remembered as a "classic" was actually revealed today.

Out of ten.

Sure, but it’s still odd that something that looks like a dime-a-dozen PS2 game would be a 6-year struggle for a first party studio.

something with more male appeal with something with more female appeal.

LoZ actually has a lot of female appeal.
It and Final Fantasy are like the two primary unisex appeal series.
In Zelda's case it's partly because there's about an equal focus on problem solving via puzzles as there is on combat, and because women think Link is hot.

I'm mad that Retro finally got the chance to make an original IP after trying and failing so many times... and the result it this crap.

Looks like Kameo combined with enemies from Kingdom Hearts.

it's weird that the evil monsters have way better designs than the nice creatures

I know, I'm saying that maybe their goal was to take Zelda and give it more female appeal which might seem like a good idea in theory, but it obviously wasn't turning out too well.

if you read their posts they are clearly autistic and they take this kind of stuff very personally

DOO DOO DOO DOO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

youtu.be/5E9svMa42lw?si=fae21BjD3Cc29umG

would've played this ngl

nobody is "raging"

it's just a baffling project all around, it looks so low quality coming from a studio responsible from some of the best nintendo games of the past two decades

Make her a boy.

Were you able to get it up and running? I've tried the "patched emulator" floating around but it refuses to even open on my machine

You can say something is shit. Doesn't mean it's raging.

Why do you guys hate this thing again?

This looks stale as fuck like a team arpg without the team mechanics to spice it up

Why is it shit?

it looks so low quality

idk, it looks fine quality wise here
The problem isn't that its "bad", its that there's no x-factor.
It doesn't stand out against any other 3D Action Adventures that existed from the PS2/GCN/Xbox or PS3/360/Wii gens.

Anon Babble hating childish games is nothing new

I'd make a boy with her

jhdsfkjhbxdjhlkbdsfkjbldsf

Oh you're that Tanabe dicksucker from the previous thread. Newsflash: The game probably would have been garbage still with Tanabe at the helm.

the nintendo capitol of the internet

hating childish games

Why does Anon Babble like to pretend as if they're mature? This boards literally the equivalent of that one autistic (retarded) younger brother that constantly proclaims they only play "big boy games".

The "I don't want to get stuck making the same game" thing is just an excuse to use when interviewers ask them why they left. The real reason is usually monetary. They make a game for a company that sells well, then they use that game on their resume to get a job at a bigger more soulless corpo company that will pay them slightly more. If they truly were leaving for creative reasons, they wouldn't leave to join a company that puts out soulless slop. But that's usually what happens. Sometimes these tards will actually get high off their own farts and think they can make their own company that could make games just as good, with more of the profit going directly to them. Not talking about only retro, but devs that use that excuse usually are like this.

NOOOO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND

NINTENDO GAMES ARE ACTUALLY REALLY DEEP BRO!!! J-JUST WATCH THIS 7 HOUR LONG RETROSPECTIVE MADE BY AN AUTSITIC COLLEGE GRA-

In Retro's case the devs explicitly leave so they can put "From the devs of Metroid Prime" on a game like ReCore. Tons of devs do this and its pathetic. But also cause Retro clearly has no management or ideas guy to wrangle them so they lose purpose after shipping a title.

thing looks like obvious dookie

ALWAYS someone comes to defend it as if they personally made it

Well??? Would you actually play it???

inb4 no but a few 8 year old girls might so they should totally invest 10 million dollars on it

From the devs that brought your favorite game

by "devs" they mean one "dev" that was actually just some code monkey or a guy who made a couple background assets

Yet normalfags who never even played the game they are using to advertise the shitty one always fall for this

Looking at the footage here, they definitely cannibalized this game and turned it into Donkey Kong Bananza, didn't they?

FROM THE DEVS THAT WATCHED THE PRIME TRILOGY

mechanically most nintendo first party games are indeed deeper than this

if you're talking about narrative then lol, you have to go back

Zip Lash

Seems like a stretch, but if loli Pauline's gimmick is singing…

maybe Retro devs post here

... no?

The only thing I see from this game in another Nintendo Project is riding the back of the big guy is like riding the Mineru mech in Tears of the Kingdom

It looks nothing like DKB.

???

they have nothing in common

why is it bad?

IT JUST HECKIN IS OKKKKAAYYYYY???!!!????!!

seething

New more stylized artstyle, less Winx Club more Renaissance Era or Golden Age Disney, Fantasy BDs, Kameo, Watercolor, etc
She speaks a gibberish language ala Klonoa/Gravity Rush

little girl that sings riding big ape

kinda similar

This

You only like it because you're a pedophile. Stop whining and go make a cunny thread or post in one if it already exists in the catalog

Nigga they're not made by the same people
You fucking idiot

this is what Retro was doing instead of a third Donkey Kong

looks boring

That’s a boy though

only one anon can defend the necessity of a game producer

ok schizo

bye thread

Heaven forbid the team not wanting to make a third 2D platformer immediately

nigga...

big ape

It's a golem

little girl that sings

We don't know if Pauline sings in DKB or if's a mechanic if she does

riding

DKB is focused on DK with Pauline as a companion. Harmony is focused on the kid with the golem as a minion you could command to fight and occasionally ride. These are not the same at all. DKB is more like Ratchet&Clank or Jak&Daxter in the companion-mc dynamic

I’d rather have the Sheik game than this.

Thank God it was cancelled, do we really need more little girl games on the Switch? We already have neglected beloved Nintendo franchise that should be a higher priority. Retro made the best modern 2D platformer and they haven't released a sequel to it in 11 years.

dang sis, I thought you weren’t seething?

The Sheik game was whack a mole

Why are people posting this 360 era Rare shit instead of Lego Civ?

I want to see more of that

Making the main character a little girl is a mistake unless you're planning on having a supporting cast of cool characters to show that it isn't just a game for little girls.

This is PS2 shovelware tier

Who gives a fuck about shovelware legoslop?

there truly is no DKC sequel in the works

Americans are the only ones making good video games besides Nintendo and a couple of smaller teams like Team Asano. Binding of Isaac, Terraria, Stardew Valley, Deadlock, TF2, Grim Dawn, Among Us, Subnautica, Civ IV/V/VI, and so on. All American.

Granted, a lot of dogshit games come from America, but the same is true of Japan.

Retro didn't release shit anyway but the addition of that game would somehow make it even worse.

At least we get Bananza.

Can't even begin to imagine what the threads on Anon Babble would've been like that day

I'm going to stick my neck out for Star Fox Zero and say it's a good game with an awful control scheme, but the same can be said of Kid Icarus Uprising and that's a cult classic these days. It doesn't help that it's just the same story as Star Fox and SF64 again with a new coat of paint.

Why do people watch video essays instead of ACTUALLY PLAYING FUCKING VIDEOGAMES

I hate gamer culture.

*Silver Age
I was thinking Sleeping Beauty when I made that post

Apparently they're keeping a part of the devs working on this secret for whatever reason so maybe Retro had a hand in it

That's just policy you fucking nitwit
It's by the Odyssey team

Fettucine Force wasn't bad. If it were a side mode that came attached to a proper Metroid game it would've been remembered fondly by those who played it like Prime 2's multiplayer.

Switch 2 has a mic. You can sing in the mic on Switch 2 if this game gets finished. I think an art-style change where there's more realistic lighting and reflections would help. Also the game needs puzzles outside of sing here. It can fill in a void Zelda left behind.

wrong it's tose

Binding of Isaac, Terraria, Stardew Valley, Deadlock, TF2, Grim Dawn, Among Us, Subnautica, Civ IV/V/VI

absolute fucking slop

all these devs should be killed (in minecraft of course!!)

It was always canon
The stinger was literally Sylux stealing a baby Metroid

Jeez.. DKB is being developed by EPD 8 the mainline 3D Mario devs, you can look at Odyssey and Bananza back to back an tell it's the same engine. Retro has had nothing to do with anything.

That ain't Falco

it's bad because....well it just is okay!

This looks amazing! Damn, it was canceled? Wasted potential. I really like the designs

You can sing in the mic on Switch 2

Its on the tablet and not on the joycons

Take Ys 8 and Pal World and combine them.

Just watching the dev footage its like, holy fuck we dodged a bullet. What the fuck were those retards at Retro thinking!?

no

Not the best but I tried...
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Aside from the obvious artstyle change, I suggest letting Lumie specialize in multiple music styles rather than just one
Hell go all out
Give each of the creatures their own instrument motif

iwata apologized for this shit direct

*dies*

bros...

Binding of Isaac

2011

Terraria

2011

Stardew Valley

2016 and it's shit

Deadlock

Not released and looks like shit

TF2

2007

Grim Dawn

2016

Among Us

2018 and it's a streamer bait game for zoomers and gen alpha

Subnautica

2014

Civ IV/V/VI

2006, 2010, and 2016. Interesting you didn't mention the new one. Guess even you acknowledge it's shit.

Where are the good American games coming out RIGHT NOW.

it's bad because... well it's because it's american okay!

absolutely, glad you agree mr nigger

Anon Donkey Kong Bananza is made by the Odyssey team

Bad artstyle. Bad critter designs. Uninteresting world. It looks like it was meant to be enjoyable for little girls aged 2 - 6 and no one else.

I imagine Nintendo gets some sort of tax break for keeping Retro operational. Like Ubisoft and its 50 million branch operations but less retarded.

Can't think any other reason they'd be allowed to exist for so long with no output.

My biggest gripe with this is how it looks. It just has a generic western studio look.

Very "non-nintendo" I can see Nintendo shooting it down based on that alone. It lacks flair, very uninspired.

I kekd

Throwing my hat in the artstyle ring but maybe something ala Henson could work
Think Dark Crystal or Labyrinth
Atmospheric, moody but still light-hearted in a sense
Anyways people might give me shit for this but the one style I don't think the game should've gone for is "generic wannabe anime" style
Something like Joe Mad is fine but I'd honestly prefer Retro's first original IP to stay distinctively western in style

Anon Babble - Video Games

Can you not???

Designs look boring, but the camera and movement look competent enough.

Man that reminds me of the awful Mega Man X Reboot Retro alumni tried to pitch to Capcom after leaving.

I get what you mean but it only need a little tweaking and it would look good

On one hand I get what you mean
On the other hand, Retro was literally founded to make games for western audiences in a way the boys at Japan can never accomplish so by definition Retro is supposed to make games that are "non-nintendo"
Now of course western doesn't necessarily mean generic and "non-nintendo" isn't necessarily a bad thing

Maybe the story and level design would've been really good? Retro has an amazing talent for world building

Anon just has a fetish for getting every thread he sees autosaged

Those lyrics are likely a WIP but I'm not getting too excited
Also Retro's DKC is excellent but Rare's world-building was superior

Lumie's Bad Hair Day.

BoI

Repentance came out this decade bro

Terraria

It got the huge 1.4 update back in 2020

SDV

It's easily the best game in its genre and it also has been constantly getting patched to be better

Deadlock

It's not released YET but it's easily the best new game of 2024.

TF2

It still has a large community and it's still the best game in its genre.

Grim Dawn

It's been getting expansion packs since it released with new story chapters

Amogus

So what if it released in 2018? It only got popular during 2020.

Subnautica

It released in 2017, actually.

Civ

Civilization games are single player focused so its age doesn't matter. And yeah, Civ VII is shit, but mainly because it tried to change too much of the formula that made IV/V/VI so good.

Where are the good American games coming out RIGHT NOW.

Metroid Prime 4
Doom: The Dark Ages
Mewgenics

And you can use the mic docked with background noise cancellation. Or you can plug a headset in the pro controller or console.

She needed to be anime

No

The only thing they got in common are the whistling mechanic and a prominent loli.

Retro is obviously not capable on their own and needs Tanabe whipping their asses back to the fields. Aonuma should be fired though, Fujibayashi too for that matter.

dw anon Aonuma is retiring soon.

Looks much better, actually. I hate the Disney Channel/Winx Club aesthetic so much.

A worse punishment than no DK at all.

Why fire Aonuma now that he FINALLY dropped the atrocious OoT formula for something better?

too generic

Looks as generic as the original style
If you're going to be cribbing anime at least be more original about it

It appears her name is actually Fon. Lumie is a different character.

I waited 15 minutes to post this wtf happened to this site

I agree

me in the middle

Hey man some people like using the dungeon item to solve two puzzles and fight a boss and then only every use for a couple heart pieces afterwards.

Huh, Fon and Slam

And

Walk into "DUNGEON"

Pull lever

UNLOCK BOSS ROOM

shoot arrows at boss

Win

Is better?

don't give attention to that faggot he's a 40 year old error of nature who's been seething about zelda in every thread for an entire decade

youtube.com/watch?v=pkd5mYvKWig
Here's your new artstyle

first smol pauline now lumie

the c team is having a hard time accepting now applicants at this moment

it's to stop spammers but just makes the average blue collar poster suffer

I like how here we're trying to find ways to salvage this game and the characters.

They actually did have another producer from Nintendo at the time but he clearly didn't do as good of a job as tanabe

It's more of a thought experiment because of how baffled Anons are over this being Retro's cancelled game.
Nobody actually wants Fon to be salvaged, she's too generic.
Don't expect Snoot Game Nintendo Edition out of this and even then Snoot Game happened because of a drawthread request mocking the premise

Some retarded alphoomer who played Star Fox Zero as his first and only game will in 10 years time do a video essay about how the game is a HIDDEN GEM that is BETTER THAN YOU REMEMBER and how it's failure BROKE him. It will then become a cult classic that fellow retards will fake nostalgia over.

The game is good. It just needed a better control scheme, lower price point and not having to hard carry the Wii U that year.

someone else remembers this

FUCK DC FOR AIRING THIS SHIT AT THE WORST TIMES

it's real

The more I learn about Retro, the more I hate them.

like aimed at 6 year olds

Kek, only on Anon Babble do you find a bunch of manchildren absolutely seething to their core over the fact that video game toys get made for children and not manly men like themselves.

How did they miss the whole point of a video game

dlc

Not a new game

update

Not a new game

Fagdew Valley

Play the Bokujo Monogatari series. The supposed "inspiration" to the "best game in its genre" (something pushed by journos to shill the game) completely mogs SDV. And once again, updates are not a new game.

The best game to not be out

You talk like a shill. It's not out and just by looking at it, it doesn't look anywhere near as good as Valve's old output.

TF2

2007 and little to no support. Oh, also not a new game.

dlc

Not a new game

streamer game is popular thanks to streamers

Not a new game + go play a good game = you are a moron

erm akshually, officer, she's 8 years old not 7

Not a new game

age doesn't matter

If you're attempting to make a point about Americans putting out good games? Yes, it does. Having made good games in the past doesn't mean that they currently put out good games. Things change. Just look at Civ VII. This game defeats your whole point.

Metroid Prim 4

Not out and it's looking like another MP3. AKA gimmick slop that waters down the good gameplay of the original.

Doom: The Dark Ages

It looks better than Eternal, but that's not saying much.

Mewgenics

Looks like more slop just like his last game. The only good game he has put out was Binding of Isaac. Hence why he still makes dlc for it.

The only good game he has put out was Binding of Isaac.

nah man, super meat boy is pretty good

I can see Fon having a redesign. Though the entire game needs a redesign. I think if Fon was repurposed to reflect RTX lighting with shiny detailed hair then she can stick out. Textures are way too flat. We do need furry creatures you want to pet and hug. Like use what Retro learned from Prime and make a Pixar like world.

I remember going on Smashboards in 2007 and seeing some autist yammer on and on about how Lip will be in Brawl.

I don't think the problem is style. It's just a boring design in general. She really needs a more interesting outfit or haircut.

I forgot about that one since I haven't played it since the xbox360 days. So I guess that's two good games from Edmund. Not sure why he only puts out slop and dlc nowadays.

The end is nigh is underrated as well, it's almost meat boy 2

That doesn't describe any dungeon/boss in BotW or TotK

lol

This. We never found out who the mystery metal hand belongs to.

If it had a real control scheme and was $40 it might've been in the running for GotY 2016. Its only competition was Overwatch, a bad TF2 clone, and Civilization VI, one of the best but most polarizing 4x games.

RIP Reggie

I wanna see art of her having sex with the big grass dog thing

It was revealed that was just an OC drawing someone made of Reggie as a robot/ The Regginator.
Why Reggie covered it up, no clue. Maybe the artist requested it?

the SF0 control scheme was fucking horrible and I actually like the game

I'm definitely not defending the controls. They made pretzels out of my hands. That's why I compared it to KI:U. Great game, terrible control scheme.

2015

the wii u is flopping hard

star fox zero, federation force, amiibo festival all announced, all shit

but wait! after years of anticipation, we finally get the reveal of what retro was working on since tropical freeze:

it's this pig shit

Just imagine the backlash there would've been when everyone found out Retro's new IP was a shitty Jak and Daxter clone with context sensitive singing mechanics that looks like mid-2000s bargain bin shovelware game with DOO DOO DOO DOO as the music in the background. Anon Babble would have been unusable for a month.

Fon's porn amount is gonna remain in the single digits for the next decade

I will personally make sure it reaches at least 12

I saw someone talk about that "portal clone" last thread. Seeing it now, it definitely looks bad and over-complicated. The best puzzle games make one core gimmick and use it in a lot of creative ways. Here it's like "YOU'VE GOT A PUSH PORTAL AND A FIRE PORTAL AND AN ICE PORTAL AND...!" Portal is more simple and elegant, plus the wormholes are visually more interesting and easy to grasp. Cylinders are just stupid.

Smashfags immediately start shitposting that she's a DLC character

KI:U controls aren’t great but they’re god tier compared to sf0s

Nintendo might make a lot of questionable decisions, but making sure this game never saw the light of day was a good call.

portal 2 enters

gimmick goo galore

Your opinion?

loli MC

supporting cast is a bunch of animals tied to a specific biome

innovative gameplay mechanic

music is important for worldbuilding (but not gameplay)

Splatoon.

why

man discovers that Anon Babble is full of pedophiles

I have big hands so I can't say I agree.

Lolicons =/= pedophiles

Ok then 3D anime

You know what this reminds me of? Star Fox Adventures in a weird way

Adventures didn't get cancelled though.

Wait a fucking minute

No

It wasn’t comfortable but I never had the same issues i did with 0 like not being able to see shit and my arms falling asleep

What is this?

If only french loli ratchet and clank wasn't in early access hell

generic garbage but Japanese

japs can do better

I just thought that she looks too much like Carol from Onirism.

EVERYBODY NOW!
LOOOOVE COMPASSION BEAUTYYUU PEACE!
SING IN HARMONYYYYY

2017 build looks like a shitty alpha after being in development for so long that there's graphics for wii u buttons still in it

Why, I wonder.

It's usually not worked on by the whole team or even continuously, it's just "in progress" for that time. Games like that get canned when no one really likes where it's going enough to fight for it.

Animatics for a cutscene in 2:26
youtube.com/watch?v=RWn7UDq3ZVE

There were TWO Lolis

Fuck now I wish this game got made

We'll never live in the timeline where Anon Babble sings this song together

I think you would've recruited new summons by meeting a respective loli so...four lolis in total

The game started development after Tropical Freeze in 2014. If it happened it probably would have been announced in 2018, after Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild, when people would have been fair about it.

Thanks, the game really doesn't look bad. It just seems underwhelming for someone like Retro to have spent 6 years on

2014-2017 isn't that long of a period

All signs point it development being an utter disaster

Fon is CUTE
also, from last night's thread it doesn't seem to work when we load up the ROM in the patched emulator unfortunately.

leaker said it was supposed to be announced and shown at E3 2015 but at the very last minute got pulled
I can understand Nintendo might've been pissed if they banned on this game being the big Wii-U hitter. Remember this was before Splatoon was a huge hit

lmao botwtotk is dumber and more braindead than the classic formula, but nice bait, here's your updoot.

She reminds me of Gurihiru in that pic

leaker said it was supposed to be announced and shown at E3 2015 but at the very last minute got pulled

Sauce?
I remember the talks about the game being a disaster back in January

looks fine, you just can't market this in the dead kiddie game era

T. Retro dev

Bare feet

How is she taking the picture? Also her wrist looks like it's broken

reminds me of Knack

Just looks like a normal square enix cutscene

capeshit artists can't draw

what else is new?

*Dad walks in*

Dinosaur Planet did for it though, does that count?

Desu it looks like a lot of the failed mid-2000s era Rare games like Viva Pinata and Kameo.

Viva Pinata

That was a success

Good American games?

sounds like supreme dadwalksin kino
We have been robbed.

Gurihiru are literally two Japanese women

to clarify, I meant I'd impregante the girl in OP, who is a cis female girl with a vagina and uterus

yeah it wasn't a massive success but it definitely didn't fail

I never said American. The capeshit industry poisons everyone involved.

Sex with Kate

Dinosaur Planet was shit and extremely unpolished.

Whenever you see Anon Babble trash any game, remember the recommendations each anon has made to this post. It clearly shows no one here has any valuable thought process or taste. I’m glad no one here works in game dev, and no your shitty pet project doesn’t count.

When every board says this is the worst board for video game discussion, this is exactly an example of why it is.

Thankfully you have good tastes

Also in regards to the project they were on between DKCTF and Metroid Prime Remastered, it was some type of Music RPG game where the main mechanic was singing, it was a huge disaster and after years of it going nowhere, Nintendo cancelled the project and put Retro on remastering the FULL Metroid Prime Trilogy, this was also to help Retro develop the production pipeline to be able to outsource for assistance in the future (since all their games were all internally made, you also see a lot of external studios help on Prime 1 Remastered). When everything fell through with Bandai Namco's work on Prime 4 it was given back to Retro, they patched things up with Tanabe after their fallout and they could only finish a remaster of the first Prime as all resources had to be moved to Prime 4.

guess we found the music RPG

my suggestion was good though, its the second one

Good thing Splatoon totally didn't become one of Nintendo's premiere IPs, right?

Alex Ross?
Jorge Jimenez?
Darwyn Cooke?

It's funny to think this game was created by a studio founded by a guy addicted to drugs and prostitutes.

Make everyone talk like MCU characters.

Yeah the guy who mentioned the music RPG to begin with said Harmony is it and that he didn't go any further out of respect for Retro
He thinks the studio and Nintendo are freaking out over this and the guy who leaked it is gonna be in trouble
Honestly?
If Nintendo gave a shit I think the video would've been taken down by now

Aonuma was a director for Oot, MM, WW, and TP, which are the KINO 3D Zeldas, and Fujibayashi directed SS, botw, and Totk, the dark ages of 3D Zelda for REAL fans. I don't know why the fuck you all attack Aonuma over Fuji.

Is it possible to get the placeholder stuff?
I wanna get a better look at Lumie's design

youtu.be/GLbb2ZKi0xs?feature=shared&t=4182

Also different source for pic related but now it's all making sense. From all the rumors and leaks, the Timeline of events appears to be

Retro starts working on Project Harmony sometime in 2014

It was going to be announced at E3 2015 but for some reason got pulled at the last minute.

Fast forward to 2018, the project is going nowhere and Nintendo is getting testy. They cancel it and put Retro Studios on the task of remastering the Prime Trilogy for Switch

January 2019, Nintendo is also unhappy with whatever Bamco's Prime 4 is and they end that contract and decide "fuck it just put Retro on Prime 4"

Prime 1 is already far enough in to where Retro continues working on it but they also allocate the rest of their resources to Prime 4

Prime 2 and 3's remasters are "to be pushed to a third party company" but whether Nintendo actually did that or figured to wait until Prime 4 was done before putting Retro back on, nobody knows

And I think that's it. Just a whole shitshow of development mess

So we can all be the same person that's mad

>Prime 2 and 3's remasters are "to be pushed to a third party company" but whether Nintendo actually did that or figured to wait until Prime 4 was done before putting Retro back on, nobody knows

I think one of the leakers (Nate) said it'll probably be straight to NSO now
They have Wind Waker HD but they're just gonna release the original
Thanks for the source Anon

David Wise worked on this

A music game with him should've been an instant slam dunk

NP
Also I realized I forgot to post the pic but

11 sep
Nine eleven

Which I'm really excited for, but Bananza is a totally different type of game. More action adventure and has a higher emphasis on combat, and less of an emphasis on platforming, which is kind of how DK64 was. We don't have a lot to go off from the tutorial area in the demo but that's what it's looking like. DKC is all about the platforming. Also not a fan of the aesthetics but the "crockoid" enemiess gives me some hope.

Well that works for Prime 2, but not for Prime 3 since they haven't added Wii games yet.

but the "crockoid" enemiess gives me some hope.

You're not getting organic Kremlings because they'd clash with the mechanics
The game is about smashing hard objects so naturally the enemies would reflect this

I think Retro is the only studio out there that can get away with either doing nothing or having like 6-7 cancelled or scrapped games and still exist

the dev wanted mario to say "where's my mommy" in a cutscene

In a Yoshi's Island game... r-right?

It's something I brought up last thread
Nintendo has many, MANY flaws but being ruthless to their developers isn't one of them
If Project HAMMER couldn't kill NST, Harmony could have never kill Retro

I'm guessing they'll do a quick HD resolution remaster of Prime 3 and sell it for $40
Like with Pikmin

Legitimately couldn't tell if this was a CG scene or not with the way it transitions to Samus landing

Not him
See with Pikmin, I think one of the reasons they went with HD "remasters" and not just wait it out for NSO to have GameCube games is
A. To promote Pikmin 4 no shit
B. To work around Pikmin 2's real world brands

I admire that philosophy at least
If Retro was owned by anyone else in the world they would've been shut down and closed by 2018

lol

it would've been remembered fondly by those who played it like Prime 2's multiplayer

No one remembers Prime 2's multiplayer fondly
I say this as someone who holds Prime 2 as one of their favorite games
Fed Force was mediocre at best and Blast Ball was legitimately unfinished
It sold poorly because it wasn't a good game
The best thing about it is that the only thing of note that happens in it storywise can be thrown into Prime 4 as a footnote so no one has to actually play it

project hammer was a disaster

this game seemed to be a disaster

Was Next Level the only western studio Nintendo has that hasn’t just wasted years on a single game?

Nintendo will never kill Retro. If they wanted to get rid of it, they'd simply lay off the employees and hire new ones, but Retro would still exist.

Was Next Level the only western studio Nintendo has that hasn’t just wasted years on a single game?

After Federation Force bombed and Luigi's Mansion 3 raked in millions, I wouldn't be shocked if Next Level Games is firmly find with putting any creative ambitions on the backburner for now in favor of playing it safe

Retro has an amazing talent for world building

Only with Metroid specifically because they had a lot of 40K nerds working there in the 2000s
Prime 4 seems solid enough in that regard so far aside from the GF Troopers looking like action figures and sounding like fags

NLG made fed force anon, that's way more damaging I wouldn't be surprised if they got a VERY stern talking to after that

Funny enough, they only spent like 3 years on Harmony
The real shit show is Prime 4 if I'm being honest

Nintendo throws it to them in January 2019, a full year before COVID so they had that

Let's give them a freebie for 2020

2021-2024, 4 full years of development

Nintendo likes to do that thing where a game is finished a year early and they hold it off, I'm guessing Prime 4 is gonna be an October or November title which is why they didn't announce the date yet. But that would mean Retro took 5 years of development to finish Prime 4.
Most likely they've been working on their new game for the past couple months. Considering Nintendo is keeping a leash on them this time, I'd wager Prime 5 or DKC3 if they wanted a DK game to release with the DK movie they have planned a few years out

I wouldn't be surprised if they got a VERY stern talking to after that

They got a free ice cream machine because NoA felt bad for them

Not their fault to be fair. They wanted to do an actual Metroid game before they got pushed to Luigi's Mansion 2

If Retro can be divided into two teams, one will be on Prime 5 the other on DKC
They spent money expanding to accommodate for Prime 4's development and hiring more people
If Prime 5 is a straight forward sequel they already got a good chunk done simply by finishing Prime 4

I've played every zelda game besides SS, Spirit Tracks, and the CDi games, BotW is a great one although I didn't like TotK nearly as much. Fujibayashi is a very good technical developer, I'm not sure he's even involved with game design decisions at all. AFAIK, Fuji was responsible for the physics systems.

in mario galaxy

iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/wii/supermariogalaxy2/0/2/

Unless you're careful, there's a tendency for games like Mario that can be played by children to gradually become childish. Those making the game tend to unconsciously make them that way.

Taking how Mario's line can be scripted as an example, they even propose to write, "Where'd my mommy go?". When someone in their fifties like me hears their player-character speak childishly like that, it doesn't quite sit right. After all, Mario wasn't a game only for children in the first place. As I make a game, I try to keep in mind that guys in their fifties will play it, too.

We go back and forth about other issues, as well. "Can we make Mario speak?" "No, Mario is the player, so he shouldn't talk." Like that. But he does say things like "mamma mia," so someone will be like, "Wait wait... He's talking, isn't he?!" (laughs)

That was why Retro made the Booker T "Can you dig it" tweet

I think Prime 4 was worked by a small team, okay that's more speculation on my end, but it wouldn't make sense if all of Retro were on it

Lolifags just CANNOT stop losing lmfao.

I'm sure they have their own cancelled projects, but Nintendo keeps them pretty busy so they don't have much time to waste. Probably most of all I bet is that they always wanted to make another Punch Out, but that ended up going nowhere.

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when this shit got shown to NoJ and they just watched in silence before cancelling the project as soon as the presentation was over

I think Prime 4 was worked by a small team, okay that's more speculation on my end,

They literally hired more people just to work on Prime 4
All hands were on deck but if Prime 2/3 Remastered DOES come out and is by Retro that'd be evidence that they've grown large enough to have a small team to allocate staff on

W-What would even be a reason for Mario saying something so childish in the game?

Tweet was on June 9th

Conference was June 16th

What the fuck happened in that week to make Retro lose all confidence

Everyone shits on Miyamoto but we don't know how bad we would have it without his input.

they already do in the cutscene animatics

What the fuck happened in that week to make Retro lose all confidence

Considering just how bad E3 2015 was for Nintendo, I think holding back was a good call

NCL likes cute stuff though
It's the gameplay that would raise eyebrows

They talk like Ratchet & Clank cutscenes
MODERN Ratchet & Clank scenes to be specific

KNACK IS BACK

Star Fox Zero being a literal rehash of 64 with dinky gimmicks

Pikmin 4 rebooting the story and butchering many of the core gameplay mechanics

No anon, I can't defend everything that comes out of him.

Harmony or H.A.M.M.E.R. which one would you rather play had it been finished?

Where’d my mommy go

In what context would Mario have to say this? In Galaxy 2, Mario travels with Lumas who probably call Rosalina mommy or something but that’s it.

Harmony

Guy who jerks off to feet hentai

Foot fetishist

Guy who jerks off to armpit hentai

Pit fetishist

Guy who jerks off to child hentai

TOTally different thing bro, I swear.

Its crazy how Yoshi's games cant get this same level of basic all ages consideration and games like CW have to look and sound like theyre made for toddlers.

Harmony
HAMMER had waggle controls so no it would've aged badly.
Harmony could've been a cute little RPG and given us a new Nintendo IP

Last Nintendo David Wise worked on was Tropical Freeze 11 years ago

We're not getting him back, are we? The guy is wasting his amazing talents on indie games. I really hope he's composing for Bananza but that seems unlikely since it's being made in house.

NCL likes cute stuff though

The designs really aren't that cute or appealing though. They're just the sort of generic faux anime/Disney Pixar stuff that people merely tolerate, but nobody thinks it's particularly good.

Project Hammer was such a disaster that Reggie told NST to fuck off and work on shovelware until they finally had a chance to help with Bowser's Fury.

Retro is lucky that Harmony only cost them to be on Prime remake duty and not a worse fate.

Harmony has the cute girl so that.

But hammer was a big shit show. Honestly. I think making it for the Wii was a bad idea anyway

Oh lord it actually fits

Yeah seems like he's strictly indie now
A shame but if he's happy I'm happy

but nobody thinks it's particularly good.

I liked Tangled

Holy fuck it DOES look like a cheap Nickjr CGI show

Give it a Netflix logo and it'll look like any one of the generic kid's cartoons they have there.

I played Gimmick 2 and it has good music but thats such a niche weird IP for him to pick

Just paid an artist money to draw Fon from Harmony kissing the new girl from Donkey Kong Bonanza.

Should I have the artist give them huge boobs or keep them small and short?

I think western games under the instruction of Nintendo produce really good results. It uses some of the design philosophy of western games that I prefer, but filters out the shitty practices, like making a game feel too automated and scripted.

yo this kameo x winx club crrosover looks fire

looks like one of the cancelled kids shows that only lasted one season during the early 2010s

Holy based.
IMO keep them as normally proportioned lolis.

Like this?

At least the puppets were kino.

Comparing KI:U to SF0 is incredibly disingenuous. The controls are the least of its problems, its main problem is the fucking awful gyrowing levels and how little content the game actually offers. KI:U had almost DOUBLE the levels of SF0, while also having shockingly good online multiplayer and also being cheaper. SF0 is an embarrassment.

I was thinking that small and flat was the way to go

I dunno when it's gonna be done but I'll post it on the first Anon Babble thread I see with either game once it's finished

I'm looking forward to Mario Maker 3 having voice recordings again and making obscenely offensive recordings in your mario maker levels for your friends to play.

They do sometimes, like with WW
But then other times you get CW and New Island
Yoshi's just been extremely inconsistent over the years in general though

it wasnt until recently in human history that it was decided 12 is too young

consider that modern humans have existed for 30000 years, and only in the last 100 or so has it been frowned upon

"We built the level of trust with these companies and we know we can rely on them," Miyamoto told Official Nintendo Magazine (via Nintendo Everything).

"Once we would have looked at them and asked what a company can do independently and we would support them as needed," Miyamoto said. "Whereas now we're looking at really working together. Particularly, for Luigi's Mansion 2, Nintendo is the producer of that game."

ign.com/articles/2013/10/04/miyamoto-working-with-western-devs-is-about-trust

Any porn yet?

Good Feel lost their composer and thats evident with CW but they must have changed it cause Bakeru has good music.

Too bad LM2 ended up being slop, even though Nintendo seems pleased with how it came out for whatever reason
LM3 was better but still too much padding
Hope they keep improving with LM4

There are lesbians who find yaoi hot

Small and normal pls my based anon

Is Lumie Black?

Perfect. Really any network works because it's all the same bland stuff.

Dinosaur Planet was mostly done before the change to Adventures
Hell, it has a much MUCH more interesting plot

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Miguzi aesthetics

I KNOW AT LEAST ONE EX RETRO EMPLOYEE IS LURKING THIS THREAD
SPILL THE BEANS DAMMIT

Thought the same

They'll never because Nintendo will send the ninjas

west slop

fuck jannies

Those aren't Jannies.

i have literally never even heard of this game before this thread

Because it was never revealed and cancelled

Well that's because you were never meant to if it wasn't for a leaker. It was shelved privately and never mentioned. Not even off hand

Imagine if this game came out, outsold DKC and Metroid, and Retro just makes a sequel to it much to the frustration of those fanbases

Retrobros…

I honestly want them to restart this project once Prime 4 is done, I could see the potential
also despite it being unfinished, it already looks more finished than SWSH and SV

Meanwhile on Earth-2, circa 2017

GOOD MOOOOOOOORNING Anon Babble! Just wanted to remind you that we’re another day closer to Fon (yes, THE Fon from Harmony) getting confirmed in Smash Ultimate! Make sure to save your tears for the reveal of the upcoming DLC Fighters when Fon walks into the spotlight!

Returns sucked.

It's dead Anon
Unless there's one producer at Retro/Nintendo who truly believes in it, it's fucking dead

Potential

They spent 3 years on it and went nowhere

Let me guess, you're an ESL that's been lurking for a couple of months, and thought he could finally pass as an oldfag?

Slam gets into Smash but not Fon

Would've been funny

What potential? As it is, you basically wander around looking for animal friends and you do a song to get to the next area, have a short combat segment and keep going. Maybe if there was more puzzles to do and each animal friend had very different abilities it might work, but there's nothing particularly interesting about the leaked footage.

Federation Force revealed

Retro's new game had to be held back

Reggie was sweating bullets when he answered this question wasn't he?
You think he was a Harmony truther? He HATED Donkey Konga

Retro most likely destroyed all code, art, and assets to this game by now.

On another universe there are actual rosterfags for Fon

Things will never change

Other companies announced a project you may not see for five or six years

We don't do that

MEANWHILE

announced in 2017

Released in 2025

Does this mean anything?

Most likely yeah, hiring for Harmony enemy and boss AI

So at the end of the day, who's to blame for Harmony's mismanagement?

Not their fault that Bamco supposedly botched the original version beyond repair

We would've had unironic threads shitposting with "COME Anon Babble, SING WITH ME!"

"LOVE, COMPASSION, BEAUTY, PEACE!"

Honestly?
Retro
And I say this as someone who has gripes toward Tanabe and think Retro should be able to define their own identity

I was making a joke lol

Oh............

Retro has always struggled with management, remember that one zelda spinoff game that tried making but also got canned

I do wish Harmony got made because it would have be the first truly original Retro game that wasn't already tied to an existing IP but it wasn't meant to be.

Gentlemen…

Retro had felt that they no longer needed his handholding and that they've earned their freedom

BOY DID THAT NOT AGE WELL

an entire thread lamenting the loss of some shitty abandoned shovelware game about trolls and fairies for 8-y/o girls just because the Metroid Prime devs were working on it

you faggots are a fucking embarrassment

Hardly anyone is upset about the game being cancelled, it just says a lot about the relationship between Retro and Nintendo

Given how battle league turned out, I think improvement from NLG is out of the question

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Sorry it's not a twitter or fake tariff thread I guess, oh wait, I'm not. Get fucked. I rather talk about a game that was shovelware than see your trash on my board

I was merely pretending to be retarded!

Tanabe was right all along

APOLOGIZE

Huh

If her age is on the clock, so try next year

Emily Rogers

Damn that takes me back
Whatever happened to her

non-linear storytelling

2018

sounds like they'd moved on to something else
the harmony build is from 2017 and it does not look like anything that'd have non-linear storytelling

UUUUOOOOOOHHHHHH
ToT ToT

Tanabe may have ruined Paper Mario but he's absolutely needed as Retro's Tard wrangler

Nintendo already released a better game with the same gimmick. Just play that instead.

I'm reminded of the time when people unironically claimed that Retro should have rebooted Star Tropics and made it into Nintendo's Uncharted to hop onto the moviegame trend.
While that attitude certainly didn't age well, I wonder how would those guys have reacted if this game had released.

Nintendo already released a better game with the same gimmick

a better game with the same gimmick

better game

If THIS is suppose to be better than you fags are greatly understating just how shit Harmony is

We can largely blame that on Bamco.

Barring like Splatoon 3, after that Nintendo basically has taken a "don't announce it until a few months before release" attitude for everything, for better or worse.

errrm sure it might be an extremely shitty thread, but at least it's not an extremely shitty thread about [blank]

Thread about a video game is bad

Seek help

I think you've missed a trick and are doubling down since you didn't get, best to just chill if you're getting bothered.

Bayonetta Origins was great, sorry you got filtered.

I wonder what NLG is making since battle league clearly did not go over well.

I remember none of my friends even wanted it and they loved Charged.

Most of the thread have been people pissing on it, or expressing confusion Retro thought it was ever a good idea.

fuck you're right, quick someone make a thread about Barbie Magical Princess Adventures and let's all migrate there Anon Babbleros

Yoshi doesn't talk, therefore, it's all in your head *laughs*

Are there any sexy children in it? If yes I'll draw porn of them

Tanabe WAS working on Harmony early on

I'm wondering too. It feels too soon for another Luigi's Mansion especially after the remake, and Punch Out is too culturally insensitive for the current year. Metroid is absolutely out of the table as well.

Pretty much a given it's Luigi's Mansion 4.

It sold 2.54 million so it at least sold
That said, it's LM4 lets not kid ourselves
Maybe something else as well if they have a b-team

Yeah instead ever since Story he makes retarded gay baby noises every time he moves.

what i'm getting from this thread is that we need more games for dumb little girls and pedophiles

Hammer sounds like Japanese guys who wanted to go home and refused basic communication with their own American staffers. Whole thing just fell apart.

yes

What did they mean by this?

Gotta also consider

Online was all but dead not even a year later

Interest with the free updates dropped off significantly as they came (2nd update was seen as a waste of time in its direct, 3rd most people didn’t even know happen, let alone talked about)

Game got a demo post-release, which is usually a sign that performance was underwhelming

Might’ve not lost money, but it’s far from a good look for them, and I don’t think they’re getting a second chance at that

UOOOHHHHHH!!! LICKY LICKY CUNNY! CHILD EXPOSED FEET AND TUMMY EROTIC!!!

Holy based

Battle League could've been fun if it didn't do the drip feed nonsense

I mean, it looks cute, it just way too kiddish and the animals look like generic mobile game designs

Thats what I was thinking

I was gonna use pic related for shitposting in regards to Harmony but then I realized they were probably talking about Tropical Freeze
This article took me longer to find than I expected

It's obviously about Tropical Freeze
But somehow everyone thought it was about Metroid

You think Fon would've had a Samus themed skin and Slam a Donkey Kong themed skin?
As in they'd be amiibo unlockables?

HAHAHAHAHA FUCK

Because back then the general consensus was Returns was okay but Retro should make another Prime

We will NEVER get a hard mode or boss rush mode for LM3 but they made a stupid multiplayer only DLC pack

The scarescraper is worse in 3 than in 2

NLG simply cant do post release content

fag finds fag porn hot

Was it worth it to throw all this goodwill in the trash because Tanabe was a big meanie?

Okay this means either
A. Tanabe worked on Harmony early on but left and wasn't sure if Retro was still on it
B. There was a project before Harmony that Tanabe worked on that also got canned

How do you think that pitch went?

general consensus

Lol
DKC Returns alone outsold the entire Prime trilogy. The new game was OBVIOUSLY going to be more DKC. The only reason Metroidfags assumed otherwise was because they were mindbroken by Other M and thought that Nintendo had the duty to immediately correct that mistake with yet another Prime game.

UOOOOOOOH!?

ran at 10fps max

Tanabe made federation force and botched the first version of prime 4

retro and tanabe both need to be tardwrangled

Nips are masters of never taking direct responsibility for failure, but also taking 100% credit for success.

Are you stupid?
That's like saying "oh there's no issues with BotW because it sold the most out of the series"

If Sakamoto did not have D Pad autism and had better writing talent and did not try and voice direct the english cast and other M was a success using the wii remote and nunchuck could team Ninja have done an other M 2 ASAP

triforce heroes was kino
starfox should be lower
hyrule warriors was a bad port