Why did kunitsu-gami do so badly despite cute girl?

>>713243572 (OP)
she isn't cute and the game sucks

>>713243572 (OP)
>digital only
Even a game card key would have helped it.

>>713243572 (OP)
the game is cute but she doesn't suck

>>713243639
This

>>713243572 (OP)
It's a niche game.

imagine purifying her armpit with your tongue hahaha

>>713243572 (OP)
>RE Engine slop

>>713243572 (OP)
zero marketing

>why did literally who flop
Hmm maybe because NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD OF THE FUCKING THING.
I swear this is like 80% of major releases now.

>>713243572 (OP)
Too bad, Yoshiro has a very cute voice.

>>713243572 (OP)
Because people have fallen in love with the idea of "shorter games made by smaller teams that are also paid better", but don't actually care to support the games they supposedly idolise

>>713243572 (OP)
thats a boy...

>>713246000
Based trips of truth

Too overtly Japanese in a non-anime way. Also action/RTS is a bit of a niche combo.

>>713246043
Also this. Sony Japan Studio are a pretty perfect example of this - everyone here bitched about what a travesty it was that Sony shut them down but maybe 5% of those people actually bought their games.

>>713243572 (OP)
>CRAPCOM
Into the trash it goes

>>713243572 (OP)
>zero marketing
>"tower defense"
>singleplayer
It's pretty niche even if it's made by C*pcom. Shame too since it's probably the best thing they've put out since RE2make in a sea of lazy uninspired releases

>>713243572 (OP)
I'm not doing all the work while some autistic bitch dances across the screen, thank you very much.

>>713246043
Sorry I have a backlog maybe the industry shouldn't have forced me into digital purchases. I will play this for 5 bucks or never play it and I won't feel the loss if the latter happens.

>>713243572 (OP)
People want sex appeal, not "not ugly."

>>713243572 (OP)
>capcom makes physical release for Street Fighter, Resident Evil and Monster Hunter with tons of advertising.
>Kunitsu gets no physical, no advertising just some random mentions in montage reels

>>713243572 (OP)
Too expensive to take a gamble on. I mean I'll still get it on sale.

>>713243572 (OP)
old hag

>>713243572 (OP)
Aesthetics are too asian, and not in an interesting way. Mc design is also a mess. Realistic graphics blend too much
Should have chosen some cartoon aesthetics or something

Tower defense is not fun.

as someone who played it, it's a really repetitive game

>>713243572 (OP)
oh, right, this game exists

People don't care for original games unless they are FOTM slop that everyone is playing.

>>713243572 (OP)
Because you don't play as her but some fag? Sorry I'm not gay.

>>713243572 (OP)
It's Denuvo
A new IP AA game can't sell just on half-assed marketing and dev reputation (crapcom lmao). You NEED pirates to play your game, post footage and shill how good it is
See, this is what happens when you don't let pirates play:
>>713243964
>>713246471
>>713246921
>>713247007
The same thing killed Khazan. TOTAL DENUVO DEATH

>>713243572 (OP)
brat!

>>713243572 (OP)
Because its yuri

>>713243572 (OP)
how big her bush

>>713243572 (OP)
Not much marketing, niche Japanese theming and it's hard to accurately describe what the game plays like

>>713246043
This. You're all to blame.

Doing a woodcutter-only run was fun as fuck

>real final boss is only NG+
I hated that

People hate tower defense games now?

>>713251350
It's not really a tower defense game, it's an action-RTS with pause.

>>713251350
>now
Only mobagefags like that genre

>>713243572 (OP)
Crapcom's current fan base only wants ugly tranny looking characters. They threw a bone for the old fans but they already left a long time ago and aren't coming back anymore.

>game comes out with no physical
>:(
>games comes out again on switch 2
>:D
>game key card
>:((

Why did they make her armpit so detailed even though no one is really looking

>>713243726
>Even a game card key would have helped it.
It got one, guess what, it didn't actually help it because no one wants that cancer.

>>713243572 (OP)
jap title is the fastest way to doom your game intenrationally

>>713243572 (OP)
Game is way too Japanese for normalfags I guess

>>713251817
The title is the most Japanese thing about it

>>713252101
Cope

>>713246043
yeap.
faggots cry studios are scared of trying new niche ideas yet ignore the games when they do try something new.

>>713246471
I found out it was on goypass because the renewed interest as they added an endless mode recently

>>713246043
>3 random people screaming on 4chan don't actually translate into thousands of sales for a game? Wtfff how could this happen!?

half a decade from now this game will become a “hidden gem” then normal fags wont stop crying for a sequel for a game they never gave a fuck about or played and are only interested in now because of youtubers.
same exact as okami.

>>713252264
The type of people who want that are the same ones who are repulsed at what Crapcom turned into, to the point where they don't support them out of principle. All they have left are retarded normalfags and literal trannies who are only interested in their shitty blockbusters like Monster Hunter and Resident Evil. That's the audience Crapcom chased so that's the audience they got.

>>713243572 (OP)
I was interested in it until I found out the girl dies

Great game, not perfect but very fun

>>713252264
>try something new
>a tower defence game with action elements

>>713252264
New niche ideas? Like what, adding Denuvo so nobody plays your slop?
>>713252446
Yes, after Denuvo is removed lmao

>>713243572 (OP)
I played the demo and I was legitimately unsure if that character was supposed to be a girl or not.

>>713243572 (OP)
Bought this thing at launch despite being on gamepass, beat it 3 times(apparently you have to beat it 9 times to unlock everything), got all the achievements and dropped it
It's a nice game, but the zero marketing and being niche as shit mean it won't sell at all
It's good every now and then devs make small games like these tho

>>713252851
NO
We HATE small games here.

>>713252730
How

>>713253041
That's a man.

>>713243572 (OP)
>Why did kunitsu-gami do so badly despite cute girl?
I think for what it was it sold well. Weird Japanese Jank Games are pretty niche in the first place.
I really do love this game though.

>>713251776
>Except the entire PC marketplace
>And most of the console marketplace on PS and XBox
Topkek

>>713253041
She looks like a typical Japanese androgynous beauty archetype and no one referred to her with any gendered terms in English or Japanese.

>no advertising
>weird, bland name no one could remember
>original IP
There's nothing inherantly wrong with being an original IP but if you want to push something new onto people you need to put advertising bucks behind so people will actually take notice.

>>713253143
Nintendofags and Japan are different. Early reports of Switch 2 third party games under performing outside of Cyberpunk is proof enough of that.

>>713252672
>try something new
>it only counts if you completely invent a new genre
>don't do 2D or 3D because this has been done before
>actually make a new engine just for that game

>>713246043
This but in this case the game truly looks uninteresting. I hate REengine so much and Capcom is Goyslop incarnate, people want smaller teams because they're usually more creative, but Capcom would never allow their team to be more creative

>>713252730
>feminine character
>uh oh, no pronouns
>is this a dude?
seek help

>>713255882
>feminine character is male
Never played a Japanese game before?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50SYv52Tt5o

>>713243572 (OP)
>no ads
>no controversy
>no conventionally hot girl

>>713255882
>no pronouns
I'm pretty sure Yoshiro was referred to as she and she definitely was referred to as a priestess.
It's Soh that is given They/Them pronouns.

>>713256268
did you mean chinese?
just because everyone looks like a k-pop fag, it still is easy to tell who is male or female. She is literally a Miko/Priestess, all the tutorial and dialgoue refers to her that way.

Traps are still rarity and in the few cases that games have a trap the MC might confuse him for a girl as well.