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Platinum Games Hits a New Low with Mutants in Manhattan | Rash Bandicoot

"Platinum Games is probably my favorite Japanese Game Publisher. Their approach to game design and bringing out the fun factor out of each or their ideas has always been their key trademark. And it shows! Games like the ultraviolent Mad World, super stylized Bayonetta series, and even the highly underrated shooter, Vanquish are some of the best action games to come out the past decade. Their latest entry however, TMNT Mutants in Manhattan is a lazy piss poor attempt and goes against everything of what makes a Platinum Game good."

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no_more_heroes2899d ago

Licensed game + stretched too thin = poo, even for the best devs it seems.

RashBandicoot2899d ago (Edited 2899d ago )

To be fair they did a great job with Transformers Devastation. This one on the other hand felt very amateur.

maybelovehate2899d ago

Not the first time Platinum has ruined a legendary franchise. I thought there was no way a game based on Korra could be bad, but Platinum managed it sadly.

Big_Game_Hunters2899d ago

The ignorance in this comment is phenomenal.

InMyOpinion2899d ago

Please take better care of NiER Automata.

_-EDMIX-_2898d ago

I loved what I played with Bayonetta and Vanquish but I can't be the only one that questions most of platinum's games.

It seems they are a huge hit or miss and they literally have more bad titles than they have good titles which is truly a shame in sort of makes me worry about Nier2

InMyOpinion2897d ago

I loved Vanquish especially. Actually looked up Nier 2 and it has the same game designer (and awesome composer!) as the first at the helm. The head of Cavia who made the first. So that makes me a bit more comfortable.

anast714d ago

It's sad this comic book turned tabletop roleplaying game never got a good video game.

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Is Platinum Games Losing its Sheen?

After the cancellation of Scalebound, Platinum Games seems doomed to collapse. But can they find retribution on the horizon?

Hendog19812663d ago

It's what happens when you stretch yourself too thin.

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Absolutely agreed even though I really like Platinum Games I always felt they were hit or miss don't get me wrong Bayonetta and Vanquish are amazing titles the same with wonderful 101 but anything other than that has always been very questionable by them and I believe they had a huge consistency problem.

I'm happy that Nier feels like one of those amazing top games by this team, but I also worry because to my understanding that games development was literally split from the team that was creating the specific story and RPG elements to platinumgames Joseph physically creating the gameplay so it definitely makes me wonder if their team is just drawn too thin.

Right now I'm literally questioning how Nier would have turned out if just Platinum Games was simply working on it and none of the staff from Square Enix

Maybe them simply focused on creating 1 aspect of that game is why it was able to turn out so well in terms of how it feels.

Even though it's pretty easy to blame Microsoft in regards to the cancellation of scalebound if you consider they could have simply put in another team to assist them through the development but at the end of the day they still also contracted this team to do something in the first place.

That's basically like getting mad at a team for struggling to build your kitchen yet paying more money to another team to help the other team to build your kitchen.

I mean the way I see it is Microsoft really shouldn't have to do that if they had a very clear and honest deal with Platinum Games for them to create something for them.

I worry about this company's future because of all the bad releases they've had in the past as of right now the last great game I even remember from this team is probably Bayonetta 2.

showtimefolks2662d ago

I think they need to work on less projects and focus on better and more quality products

Gaming_Cousin2662d ago

I wouldn't want to develop for a company that treats me harshly

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Fishy Fingers2662d ago

'Doomed to collapse'.

Haha. Much drama... they expect people to read this s***?

343_Guilty_Spark2662d ago

Depends on who they are working with.

never4get2661d ago

True, Epic Games #EPICFAIL #UE4RETAREDSLOW #EPICCEOLOVESMOBILE. KH0.2 can't even run 1080p60 on PS4PRO.

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Activision Pulls TMNT, Fast & Furious Games from Digital Marketplaces

Activision has pulled five games from digital storefronts, including a pair of Spider-Man games, a pair of TMNT games, and a Fast & Furious game.

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lodossrage2700d ago

Since it's not just Spider-man, it may not be a simple case of franchise rights moving to another publisher. Fast and the Furious and TMNT aren't owned by Marvel/ Disney.

Activision may simply be trying to push away from licensed franchise products

gamer78042699d ago (Edited 2699d ago )

also the 2 worst ninja turtles games ever made, the recent nickelodeon games, atleast those had some of the charm of the tv series and old style tmnt games.

Cmv382699d ago

Spider man taking down because of the new one. These taken down because they are utter garbage.

lodossrage2699d ago

Spider-man isn't being taken down because of the new one coming up. It's being taken down because just like TMNT and Fast & Furious, they are no longer willing to pay the digital licenses on most of their franchise products.

SirCharles2699d ago

And nothing of value was lost

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