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why? who?
this looks stupid
FROM THE STUDIO THAT BROUGHT YOU METROID PRIME AND DONKEY KONG COUNTRY TROPICAL FREEZE COMES....
...Dora the Explorer's singing group?
Would this game have killed Retro if Nintendo didn't come whip them into shape?
No but Nintendo fans would've been on suicide watch if this was shown at E3 2015 like it was supposed to
As someone who had a Wii U at that time, I probably would've raged
It looks cute
I hope its not dropping this gen because
Fyck out of here with current era prices
This game is cute and Fon is prime British Cunny so I would've liked it
Glad this low test soi shit got canned and retro was put back on high test metroid prime
Was that the Star Fox Zero direct? It probably could've fit in as just another game. Wii U needed more of those in general truth be told.
Yup, it was the "this was so bad Iwata had to apologize for it" one
I think it's interesting how as much as Nintendo targets children they still would never ever make anything that is so blatantly for little girls like this. Not even Animal Crossing comes close.
Funny how the only green one bankrupted its studio
Post it with the audio plz
Why do we keep getting threads about this unfinished alpha
who is paying to shill this shit here
I found the lead designer
Some retarded Tanabe dicksucker who wants to keep spinning the false narrative that he alone keeps Retro whipped up into shape. Sad that this is the game (and hill) he dies on.
Damn you're really mad about something that doesn't affect you huh
Unless there's a new mind control feature on Anon Babble that forces you to click and reply to threads you don't like
Nintendo's actually deleting videos of this game on YouTube
For what purpose?
Again, if Project HAMMER couldn't kill NST, Harmony wouldn't have killed Retro
That said, apparently the game floundering led to Nintendo allocating the studio to make Remasters of the Prime Trilogy and be structured for assisted development like what happened with NST and 1-Up Studio but Bamco's Prime 4 was so awful that Retro got the job
This is Retro trying really, really, REALLY fucking hard to be Rare. And a specific era of Rare. Early to mid 360 Rare. This is Kameo: Elements of Power, and Viva Pinata.
Can't have people knowing how garbage Retro actually is as a studio now can we
To be fair this era is probably the third best Rare era behind SNES and N64. OG Xbox Rare and Late 360-right now Rare were absolutely dreadful
Late 360-right now Rare were absolutely dreadful
outside of Killer Instinct*
Late 360 is the bottom. Sea of Thieves is at least more respectable than making Wii Sports ripoffs for Kinect. That was almost total shovelware humiliation.
Is the download still up?
shill
For a cancelled game?
We just think it's interesting and are curious if there's more we don't know
The build contained at least one cutscene animatic
holy fuck it's alex YIIK
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Gracias
Tendies would probably eat this slop up
Have you forgotten E3 2015?
Only the biggest of Nintendo shills defended it
inb4 it comes out on Switch 2
it's one of the main games for a month
Anon how many games get "uncancelled"?
Let alone a Nintendo game?
inb4 Metroid Dread
Completely different situation
I doubt the guy at Retro who even pitched Harmony is even still at the company
Fon has gone the way as M-09
Ah yeah, I recalled that one being bad in my memory. Good times. Federation Force alone and the fucking BLAST BALL bullshit was like a shot to the head for Metroidbros at the time; series has really made a recovery since
Tendies still would've bought it, just look at Princess Peach Showtime.
Nah, Paper Jam was made after they were already in a bankruptcy death spiral. Dream Team cost such an absurd amount of money that the three games Alphadream made after it had to be made with like 60-70% reused DT assets in a desperate bid to recoup costs.
I wouldn't even say Dread was cancelled, just "put on the shelf until the tech was ready"
Anon...how many games revealed at Nintendo's 2015 E3 actually sold well?
He also apologized for the Wii Music E3 IIRC
Wasn't AlphaDream fucked because they threw a lot of money into a Gacha game or something that flopped hard
Ok but port it to the Switch and BAM the tendies are salivating
Any porn of her yet?
Didn't help Sushi Strikers or #FE
Who would want to make this? This isn't something like Kameo where it's meant for an older audience, this is a literal preschooler game
this was being made for wii u and switch?
I wouldn't be surprised if this happened
Nintendo rejects all of Retro's pitches for one reason or another
After being dissatisfied with them not using the Gamepad at all for Tropical Freeze they told them they'll need to use it for their project/pitch
Some guys at Retro pitch Harmony as a joke with a Wii U gamepad gimmick in mind
It gets accepted and they just roll with it because this is the first time they get a chance to do a new IP
Ask for full creative freedom so Tanabe isn't supervising
Ready to show in 2015 but gets held back when someone at Nintendo realizes it'd backfire horribly
Wii U flops and Switch is rushed out earlier than expected
Gamepad gimmick is dropped (and thus the thing that sold NCL on the pitch period is gone as well)
Development becomes an even further mess
Nope
Can they salvage anything from this? Years of work down the drain.
Did they salvage anything from Raven Blade?
Of fucking course not
Even Spire's design isn't literally reused from that one rock enemy
Ye
What was the plot?
We know there are magical creatures you could summon, little girls who befriended said creatures, and that you'd presumably recruit said creatures judging by that scene with Lumie and Peeper
We know there are "guardians" but what are they exactly?
Are there any humans aside from the little girls?
Who are the monsters you fight?
Imagine if they restarted development on the game using the tech they developed for Prime 4
In an alternate universe, Harmony released to critical acclaim and Fon is immediately added to Smash Ultimate
And Retro makes Harmony 2 instead of Metroid Prime 4
I wish a Retro dev would tell us more anonymously (I KNOW YOU FUCKERS CAN SEE THIS) but Nintendo's NDA is scary
If this was a Wii U game, it'd bomb
Women across the world would eat that shit up
If I were Retro CEO i'd just ignore Nintendo and release it desu
Ignoring Nintendo is what made Retro wasted millions and 6 years on this shit
Women across the world would eat that shit up
Women play puzzle games, simulators, Pokemon, and mobileshit and Harmony looks like it'd be something for REALLY little girls since Fon outright breaks the fourth wall and encourages the player to sing with her
Fuck it, ignore another year then.
Then show profit receipts to Nintendo when its a commercial success among women
Switch 2 has a mic
FON'S GAME IS GONNA LIVE BROS
Retro has yet to make a bad game, harmony probably would have just been mid at worst
Retro have transparently called a lot of their cancelled games (beyond pitches) terrible
Raven Blade was an unfocused disaster
Meta Force as well
Sheik was just whack a mole
Anon shows off their Fon amiibo in a cum jar
Prime 2
Women weren't going to buy it, the audience would be dad's that loved Nintendo enough to buy a Wii-U and also happened to have a young daughter they'd want to try playing this with them, only to shortly find out their daughters stop giving a shit to play the game the moment the combat sections happen.
You have to remember the Wii-U did not catch the family audience it desperately wanted to have and only really had gamers who bought everything Nintendo made anyways. That's why that era was so fucking hated, the library was being tailor made for people who did not care about the system while the people who did buy the system were desperate for games Nintendo didn't want to make until the Switch came out.
It's a good game but out of all the Prime games, it'd benefit the most out of a remaster
It's still an IP to protect even though it was cancelled for a reason. You can't have people taking ideas from it that they could potentially make money from and you'd have a hard time proving that it's interfering with your business.
WHAT IDEAS
Everyone has pointed out that this build has hardly anything special
Can you run the nsp on a ryujinx/yuzu?
Do we know who did the music for Harmony? It must have been a somewhat involved process, since music is tied to the core game, and title, and "harmony" is in its name. Even at this stage of the prototype they had a full musical number.
It was your mom
GG Allin
I paid someone to draw her kissing mini-Pauline from DK Bonanza
Maybe David Wise
It was confirmed David Wise
Which is baffling because this sounds nothing like him
What the hell did Booker T have to do with this game?
Why was the tease "Can you dig it"
It's probably very rough and unfinished. Though it does feel very "Rare-y." Literally sounds like Kameo's soundtrack. Especially with the singing and humming.
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Kameo at least leaned more LotR at the end while Harmony is....Nick Jr.
this was cancelled in 2018
that's a lot of years in development, there's probably a ton more assets for the game in a vault at retro
The game probably got remade from scratch at some point
That 2017 build looks rough
Dooooooooooooo
bsky.app
The battle theme seemed to be a WIP
Apparently one of the deleted videos showed that the staff has a face and could talk
desu they should revive the project after metroid prime 4
Again, has ANY game been un-cancelled?
It could be small elements like character design, music, basic mechanics of gathering the animals to play music together and at most someone could come out and straight up rip it all off while adding their own improvements and Nintendo would have a hard time defending any claim to it because it was unreleased and it's hard to prove how much of it would be taken from the game or what was improved and added upon. Even if they couldn't have any claim to it in the end or prove they suffered financially they would basically help someone else's game get off the ground and make money and as a business you don't want to help other people make money off your work. That's why companies have to be protective of any sort of even potential idea that comes form them.
She looks like a horse show character from that one human spinoff
Then why aren't they this overprotective over the canned Retro pitches that we know about sans that time they tried to get DYKG's video on Heroes of Hyrule taken down?
Imagine this game gets recreated unofficially.
Dinosaur Planet is more primitive and has a stronger dedicated fanbase and it still hasn't been fully finished by fans
I don't think anybody's rushing to recreate this
Sandwich Anon tried making a Discord to establish a community of people researching more and more into the game
I think the ninjas got him
Big difference between an unmade pitch based off and existing IP and an alpha build with years of development for a new IP
RIP
I hope things go well for him though, he went through the trouble of giving us the ROM and emulator
Sucks that we neglected to save his videos
Where did this leak come from anyway? Was he a Retro employee?
Someone found a 2017 dev kit and it had Retro's cancelled game but also Ridge Racer, a Splatoon 2 beta, and a Lego Civ game apparently
Oh shit I didn't even know his videos got taken down. Damn.
Someone posted it in the thread already but yeah might be a good idea to download the gofile since they'll probably go for that next
why is she not wearing a skirt or a dress?
The footage on bsky is still up as well as that one unlisted video
Surprised this video is up
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game looks like hot garbage but the lolis are cute
it would've def have found a niche audience somewhere just by the cunny alone
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How do we get Nintendo to revive Fon's game
Because Retro Studios are not pedos
You don't. Nintendo will probably force Retro to work on Prime 2 and 3 remasters for Switch 2 until Prime 5 or the next DKC.
No but you are
Game doesn't look THAT bad.
Would have had better chances with a studio other than Nintendo.
The day Harmony resumes development is the day Mother 3 is localized and Geno gets in Smash
Would have had better chances if it was still 2003.
stranger things have happened. Style Savvy was made by the same people who made Def Jam Vendetta and Fight For NY
Fon is SEXY
The scene with her and the frog is legitimately cute
Bros, I think I'm starting to unironically like this game...
Describe her personality
Was the technology not there for Harmony?
Okay even if that was the case, Wii Motion Plus didn't salvage Project HAMMER
She reminds me of Riley from Inside Out in that shot for some reason
discord
you fucked up
It's not about the technology. It's about vision and direction. Retro needs someone with a clear vision for the game both story and gameplay. So far it looks like a generic action game. It just doesn't have that click most Nintendo games have.
That said if the game is revived then it needs an art-style change to show off Switch 2's RTX lighting. This also means the game needs a tonal change in themes and direction. I think a misty twilight forest would fit the game well. And Fon would need a redesign where her red hair shines in light.
What is she looking at?
She looks like a Strawberry Shortcake character
This also means the game needs a tonal change in themes and direction. I think a misty twilight forest would fit the game well.
This definitely. The game could be about purifying the forest from a corrupting influence or whatever, but it's not clear why the enemies are bad and why you should care about fighting them. They could be a little more intimidating too. Take a note from the Kirby and Yoshi games on how to make cutesy characters that are intimating enough for you to fight them.
Kirby and Yoshi appeal because they strike a solid balance between cute and cool
Kirby can do things that are on the edge of saccharine (kissing to share food, throwing hearts, etc) but his games never self-indulge themselves on his cuteness
Fon isn't like Yoshi or Kirby because she's an actual humanoid who can talk (having dialogue let alone an actual voice can easily destroy charisma if done poorly)
I think something like Child of Light is a good reference for how to strike solid ground on what Fon was presumably trying to accomplish
Fon needs to suffer and have everything taken from her. Then with a little hope Fon gets back onto her feet. But this needs to be expressed through gameplay.
There was an idea in a previous thread that Retro could pull a Spire and have a character based on Fon be in Metroid as the last survivor of her world with her song being the last remaining piece of culture she brought and will die with her.
fon could have been a nintendo all star
I'm thinking about having the first area be a tutorial where you sing to flowers and animals. But then monsters show up and cover the forest in darkness. Fon then wakes up to a lighted path she follows until she meets Slam. They bond somehow. Then you use Slam's abilities to break through walls until you reach the first "seed". The seed grows a tree that illuminates the first region that serves as your Tallon Overworld. Fon needs to learn new a new song to explore the new area. Like a third-person Metroid or old formula Zelda.
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DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Speaking of Rare, one of Fon's sounds reminds me of Orchid
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She likes to have sex specifically with me
god i hate ponyfags.
That second video
Is that the layout of the first dungeon of Zelda 1?
Looks like it is.
How the fuck did you notice that.
You can see it at 4:14
Damn good eye anon
Huh, reminds me how BotW was tested with Zelda 1's overworld
Ok 3:20 was actually kind of cute
I still can't believe that Retro tried to make a Sheik spin-off, and the best they could come up with is Whack-A-Mole with Wii waggle controls.
Tanabe tried to do Metroid Prime with Fed Force and Bamco without Retro and failed
Retro tried to do their own game without Tanabe and failed
I'm glad they kissed and made up. They bring out the best of each other
Something playable leaked for this and the videos could lead people to playing it
The only value this cancelled Disney crap made by retro has is the bestiality porn. But not even this people are making.
The tile colors are the exact same too.
How many of you guys in this thread actually played the build yourself?
What the fuck is this? When was this shown off?
t. completely out of the loop
You know how Retro Studios worked on something that never came out for 5 years until they were called to do Metroid Prime 4 from the ground up?
Project Harmony was that game
For the past few threads we've been speculating both the game itself and the circumstances surrounding it like how allegedly it was gonna be revealed at E3 2015 but got pulled
I don't want to be disappeared by Nintendo.
Some old switch devkit with a lot of cancelled games leaked somewhere. There was also a cancelled switch ridge racer
they bring the best out of each other
Retro should do a Paper Mario game.
RTX Lighting
Fucking hell I'd love to see DKC with that
I'll defend Fed Force till I die.
I won't defend much else from that E3 though.
It's not going to be as advanced as PC. But the GPU does support it. I want to see Monolith Soft and Retro Studios use it. Fuck I even have ideas on how to use it for a new comic book artstyle F-zero game.
Just imagine...
This could have been how the GC Shantae game turned out.
But those games have underlying sexy, gameplay and music first.
Fuck I even have ideas on how to use it for a new comic book artstyle F-zero game.
That'd be sick
I think I said it before but if they want a new F-Zero to have a comic artstyle, I think something inspired by the likes of Dan Mora or Jorge Jimenez would do wonders without being alienating
I was thinking about the original SNES box art that looked like a comic book.
There was also a cancelled switch ridge racer
We could have gotten such good memes.
Interestng though.
So wtfh is the robot arm in Reggie's goodbye picture/photo from rare?
Still a total mystery?
Honestly it doesn't look bad persay. Just not what expect out of Retro.
I see, I meant more if they wanted to be contemporary since both the SNES original and X harkened to the popular styles in comics at the time they were in development.
I used those two artists in particular because they have a very Japanese influenced but still distinctively western artstyle that I think could fit a modern F-Zero like a glove
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In-joke
Literally just an in-joke
Modern comic books are wokeslop. So go back to the retro-style comics or go manga is what I'd do.
Adding a new chapter to the "Why Retro isn't the new Rare" discourse
If Retro is to make a new IP to distance themselves away from established brands, what could they fill in the void Rare left behind when they went Microsoft exclusive?
A beat-em-up like Battletoads?
Came out before Nintendo's partnership with Rare and beat-em-ups are an incredibly niche genre now
Mostly restricted to cheaper titles
A traditional FPS like Goldeneye?
A saturated genre and would fail to compete with multi-plat juggernauts
A 2D fighting game like Killer Instinct?
Also a heavily niche genre but also one that'd struggle to compete with the established ones right now.
The only viable spot I can think of off the top of my head is a 3D platformer collect-a-thon but I doubt Retro would be keen on doing a figurative not-Banjo
There's a void left behind by Zelda going open-air. If Retro used what they learned from Metroid Prime world design then I think they can make a solid 3D puzzle-based action adventure game.
Ideally they should do a genre that Nintendo's in-house teams are not experienced with. Tower defense is what first comes to mind.
This was a re-purposed Zelda game pitch
Hear me out
Retro Studios has wanted to tackle the Zelda IP for ages (Heroes of Hyrule and the cancelled Sheik game)
Miyamoto himself thought Retro was capable of doing Zelda
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Whether you like it or not, around the time people were curious over the potential of a game where Zelda herself was the lead and not Link
Emphasis on music in gameplay which the Zelda series has had done form multiple entries albeit mostly with instruments
I think Harmony has roots in a Zelda spin-off pitch where Zelda was the protagonist and as the project moved along it distanced itself further and further from that Zelda inspired origin after it got green-lit.
Maybe they had to remove all the Zelda stuff for the pitch to get the greenlight?
Maybe that'd explain why that test level was a dungeon from the NES classic
That or disregard everything I say as I eat cocks
I've heard more schizo theories before, could be desu
It's a shame they never got to tackle a real Zelda game
Eh....even the guy who made that Sheik pitch admitted it was a bust
Heroes of Hyrule sounded cool though but I think the elaborate plot turned Nintendo off
That year's E3 killed Iwata. He died about a month later. It was just so bad.
If there's an animation of Slam rolling, that'd point to him originally being a Goron right?
Yeah. They admitted they focused way more on the admittedly really cool concept art than the actual core gameplay loop.
That year's E3 killed Iwata.
You know he had very bad health problems before that right?
He updated his Mii to reflect how he was "getting better"
He updated his Mii to reflect how he was "getting better"
Thats a sad one. Knowing how late stage cancer works. Theres a period of time ranging from a few days to a couple of months when one appears to be recovering. Then it all collapses at once.
Well..fuck that's disappointing.
But nice gift for him either way.
You're a fucking twat.
That's like saying a TPS would just die due to over saturation. Yet Splatoon is going gang busters, even on Switch with lots of alternate optiond.
Plus ARMS did like 3mil besting SF many times week for week.
Any genre would do fine if it has a good style, character design and hook.
My two big choices would be
A. Nintendi Infinity/Amiibo verse. Basically Disney Infinity but with Amiibos/Nintendo worlds. Pack in Mario, Link, and Inkling to give those without amiibos a varied start potential, works with any Nintendo amiibo...plus whatever select 3rd parties play ball. Each world has a mini plot to clear up trouble/chaos then a boss fight. After all cleared you get a final world unlocked to defeat the main villian. EZ PZ.
B. Nintendo Land Builder/Tycoon.
Roller Coaster/the park Tycoon...but Nintendo Land (that WiiU game). You design the part, attractions, shows, etc to enthrall park goers as much as possible.
Give some extra fantasy spin/tweaks so mario power ups, zelda weapons, dk barrels etc all work as in their games for added thrills.
Splatoon
ARMs
I meant "traditional" installments in their respective genres catering to western audiences primarily (like what Retro was made to do).
Splatoon is successful because of how unorthodox and unique it is for its genre.
I could still see them making it work all things considered.
I'll throw another one out there though.
Monster Hunter-like. And I mean a real one mimicking FU-4ult. Not the ripped down hush shit that God Eater, Freedom Wars, Dauntless, etc are.
Nintendo could hand them the keys to Starfox.
Had Nintendo revealed Harmony at E3 2015 both them and Sony would have shown off a new IP starring a female redhead
Huh
Anon the point was Retro making their own original IP to determine their identity away from established properties
I'd like to see them do a WRPG
Give them a fresh canvas for the people interesting in writing lore to get creative with
I mean, it's none of the OG staff and hasn't been since like Prime 2.
I'd be fine with this as well.
They seem to want some more dark and gritty anyhow.
Raven Blade
What was the story/plot of Raven Blade?
Never heard of this one till today.
Too bad the harmony e3 trailer probably won't leak ever
there was this posted yesterday
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What was the story/plot of Raven Blade?
Tri-Force Heroes was great, so everyone who rated it badly can eat a dick.
I aaint watchin those fags.
Give a summary.
It was quite enjoyable yes.
The ultra super dungeon was great to go through..if you had intelligent allies.
lmao why are "lost media" fags always obsessed with the literal toddler crap?
Set in a legendary time when one hero must hold back the forces of chaos, only the ancient and mysterious raven blade can thwart the evil machinations of the Beast Lord
Basically they had no concrete plot and everything was in flux so the press release gave a very vague and generic outline
Okay but does she have a cool theme song like Cookie from Cookies Bustle?
Fon's song is shit
This reads like the most bland Not-Zelda rip off you could craft.
Just change Raven Blade with Master Sword and Beast Lord with Ganon.
Honestly this looks like typical nintendo quality. You would have loved it if it came out because it's a nintendo game.
Just like Federation Force!
Implying we wouldn't have years of shitposting if this was revealed when it was supposed to.
shitposting about nintendo
on Anon Babble
That'll be the day.
Shitposting about Nintendo is encouraged by the mod teams. You WILL get banned if you shit post about Sony though. Or if you post factual sales data.
lol
that's all you have to say, janny slave?
You mean like all day today?
All of the last 2 weeks?
The endless Switch/Xenoblade/BotW seethe threads?
You are bad at lying.
Ten years of Metroid Shitposting.
im almost certain this game was repurposed from a rejected pitch for a zelda game
Yeah
fifteen anon.
fifteen years.
being this new
This looks like licensed shovelware from mid 2000s based on some Disney IP lmao.
Red Dead Revolver
That took a literal change in ownership to accomplish
It was cancelled for less than a year though
Harmony has been rotting for half a decade
I assume the replies are bot posts, surely these aren't real anons retarded enough to not see the obvious joke.
being retarded enough to assume anon isn;t actually that delusional
really now mate?
I wonder if instead of a life bar the game would benefit from a hit-point system. You start with 3-4 hit points but you can upgrade your hit-points by finding heart containers that add +1 hit. Bosses give you heart containers too. Also your beasts like Slam have hit points that can also be upgraded. So it encourages you to not get hit while still being forgiving if you do.
i want zelda but with sing-a-longs
Okay champ.
Fuck it, a pirate WRPG
Not a single person in the past week has been able to provide good ideas to make this game work
There's a reason it was canned
Seeing how it ends with the logo popping up, I think this was supposed to be the E3 reveal demo or a proof of concept for what the E3 reveal would look like.
Show off the singing mechanic, the combat, and end it in a song
And as a way to sell the game.....this doesn't look impressive.
Imagine if Nintendo hadn't gone digital and Fon told the live crowd to come together now