>Studio's pet projects are progressively darker and darker

It's not a common occurrence, right?

>>717089195 (OP)
Any series that start dark and get happier?

>>717089852
duno abouit vidya but plenty of movie franchise are like that, pandering both to nostalgia and wider audience

>>717089852
Koudelka/ Shadow Hearts.

I can't stand fur characters.

I respect the fuck out of CC2 for taking on all the licensed anime slop they can take just to fund their passion projects like LTB series and Asura's Wrath. Self-publishing Fuga so that they don't go into limbo like Solatorobo and Asura is extra based too. I look at that dogshit Demon Slayer Mario Party clone as direct Fuga funding which makes me appreciate it in a roundabout way.

>>717089195 (OP)
More common than you think

>>717090950
ok.

>>717091101

it's like Dreamworks forced to make Trolls or Boss Baby to fund their masterpieces

>>717089195 (OP)
>director's pet project is a literal director's pet project

>>717089195 (OP)
Naughty dog pulled this shit, that’s why we are where we are today.

>>717093113
They were just chasing trends.
Actually always has been.

>>717092463
>Game is less fun if you don't die due to how you get ability upgrades
What a weird game. Also fluffy crotch, erotic.

>>717093403
not that weird, Crew in Fuga games is literal cannon fodder, and they're just KIDS.
thankfully it's optional

the tarnis looks sexy in its final form

>>717093740
the other anon is talking about umbraclaw

what a hodge podge

i was browsing through /v/ archives and found anons hoping they'll get updates with REAL endings for the final game... someday.

>>717094749
i know, interesting style too. Might try it since i like cats.

>>717094752
nope. the kids are resting after all that nonsense

>>717094752
>Cyberpunk
This is such bullshit, quite possible one of the most retarded costume dlc yet

i finished DKR HD recently and i may do one of the following things.... try to 100% it, or start Fuga 2, since i unfortunately bought it in a bundle with original Fuga

>>717090950
kemono is ok but I hate western furries

sheena's grasping mother

>>717097623
very nice drawing, yours?

>>717089195 (OP)
I wish the series also got progressively better instead of peaking at Solatorobo
>>717097623
Artist of this is an omega level autist lol

>>717097857

It's better to separate art from artist.
Fuga 1 on its own is pretty good. Had conclusive ending so rest can be dismissed as fanfiction i did that to Sly Thieves in Time

>>717098072
Apparently from a new interview, the reason for this is that Matsuyama had decided from the start that it'd be a trilogy as has been stated before but did not inform anybody whatsoever until the very end of development. Such a genius CEO!

>>717098361
Oh, that clears up things. So then they had to come up with ANY story to continue. Sad, really.


Was working on my rfa pic of Hanna and needed refs, surprising amount of hanna guro there, it's not canon since concept art, but, sheesh.

>>717097823
no.
>>717097857
well they draw pretty well. im jealous

>>717098072
They could at least make Flam and Hax fights less repetitive

>>717098950
nice art. and hannah guro? i never seen any out there
>>717100401
you must weaken their resolve before attacking them

>>717100506
Why thank you. Will continue with one character every week.
It's just some blood, some blindness etc

You were simply fighting Pretzel's tank three times, except with different music each time

>>717090950
>HAHA DON'T WE ALL HATE FURFAGS HERE FELLOW FOURCHANNERS

>>717098950
It explains why the foreshadowing is so forced in and minimal in the first game. There's pretty much just Malt remembering the rewind in chapter 1, Lunet's comics, and the Jihl cameo. I question why it even needed to be a trilogy and not just one long game. Matsuyama is a total numbskull.

So is 3's gameplay the best in the trilogy at least despite gripes with the storytelling? I considered 2 about a sidegrade since it was a mechanical improvement but nowhere near as effective as a total package (the tacked-on morality system being the one mechanic that felt like a step back).

>>717101356
It's easily the worst. It's so braindead easy. None of the mechanics are balanced and feel like they were all added without consideration for how they'd work together. Burst attacks a complete downgrade from link attacks too. Fuga 3 strips so much of the strategy from the game.

>>717101531
Well damn. I loved the feeling of swapping the cast around throughout combat to maximize Link attacks while targeting weaknesses. I guess I'll wait for a deep sale or GamePass (since that's how I played Fuga 1 initially).

>>717101658
Same, I loved doing that in 1 and 2. It really saved my ass in some of the elite battles, especially in 2's NG+. I hate hate hate that they made the link attack gauge universal and automatic as soon as it fills up in 3. You can barely strategize around it, and it doesn't even carry over between battles. That mixed with the deluge of randomly activating leader skills makes battles so easy because the game will decide to just hand you a win nonstop.

Dev made a typo with his name since is related to his attacks (lightining), so i assume if they decided to rename him in english they'd call him Bort

>>717101356
Combo's made the game a bit too easy, you don't even have to worry about debuffing anything outside of bosses. Wappa was ridiculously overpowered this game when I rarely used her in the first or second since debuffs for damage mitigation was king and her wappa special at a 200% combo rating could wipeout literally any minor enemy encounter.

>>717102826
Chick's Cheerful Dance is stupidly OP too for healing. Hardly ever used Hanna when I'd rather have Wappa on the team for grenade launcher. Even without a 200% combo, you can get back to full health incredibly easily. She has the tag team shot skill for building combos too.

>>717089195 (OP)
Make it make sense how fuga isn't a bara fujo series?

>>717103916
The characters are too young and the bara bait characters rarely get screen time.

>>717091101
>I will never have another dothack game series because Bamco is holding the IP hostage
>CC2 keeps making kemono games
>The fucking piss scenes in Fuga
Melancholic reality.

>>717103916
CC2 seems to prefer twunks and hunks over baras.

>>717104281
Have a seat, anon.

>>717104350
That is an object of indescribable horror

>>717104281
>The fucking piss scenes in Fuga
Is it excessive? Sure. Would it have been better if these scenes weren't included? Certainly. But it isn't as bad as people paint it, like you don't even see anything other than the kid being embarrassed and hear anything other than running water, it doesn't even come off as necessarily fetishistic in its presentation.

>>717104350
boron makes it weep everyday

>>717101124
The rewind? From the first game? Wasn't this just Taranis doing a simulation?

>>717105138
Supposedly, but all the mechanics of the time travel in Fuga make no sense. They constantly make it seem as if the bad timelines are just visions while Jeanne explicitly refers to her timelines as simulations, but Fuga 3 also treats them as actual alternate timelines several times. In Fuga 1, Malt is somehow aware of the rewind even though their death was supposed to be a simulation. It's so messy.

>>717104283
And lolis.

>>717094752
>Kyle and Hanna are fucking dorky parents who outfit match with their son
Cute

>>717105996
It's not time travel. It's just Juno resetting the world every time it enters a "failure" state.

>>717090486
such as?

>>717107698
Rambo, Terminator, Jurrasic Park...

>>717089852
Persona

>>717105996
>They constantly make it seem as if the bad timelines are just visions while Jeanne explicitly refers to her timelines as simulations
>In Fuga 1, Malt is somehow aware of the rewind even though their death was supposed to be a simulation
That's easy, the visions and the simulations are one and the same, the Marzipan kids are just tapping into Juno's power.

>>717102487

>>717107571
What the hell are you talking about? That's not what reset is or what the game explained. Malt and Mei also do straight up time travel to the past to go to Petit Mona.
>>717108176
I really wish Fuga 3 explained the origins of their powers whatsoever instead of them just being like that. I know Maestro has a throwaway line that he gave them their powers, but that makes no sense and still doesn't explain anything, especially Quynne, an unrelated Hybrid from a thousand years later, seemingly also using it and being an expert on it.

>>717089852
The Like a Dragon Series

Uh oh. We're losing the thread, time to leave

>>717108885
not without my flam kish

>>717101124
>>717098361

>>717110821
ah muse. may you protect gasco for all your days

>>717108885
Seems weird people like him so much.

>>717089852
Yoko Taro games

>>717113031
i guess its like flam where ou feel sorry for him and think you can fix his evil ways

>>717113268
Flam is just hot, that's basically it.
While this piece of garbage is irredeemable.

>>717113491
I'd resurrect Pretzel instead of Flam, her message of the first game was fanatism is destructible

But fiery redheads are hot so whatever.

>>717113685
god they are. except that new girl in 3. not enough cutscenes

>>717113031
I have never met a normal Blutwurst fan. Last one I met was a teenage DID larper who claimed to have a bunch of Fuga character "alters." Though I hardly meet Blutwurst fans in general because he's just not that interesting of a character beyond the Felineko self-racism aspect and being really evil. CC2 completely fumbled their chance to make him compelling in Fuga 3.

>>717113939

guess sequels did nothing good except maybe adding like 2 waifus for lustful fans

>>717114632
yeah

>>717114632
>sequels did nothing good
Nah, the sequels are pretty clear incremental improvements.

>>717113685
I really wish Flam stayed dead and wasn't brought back. She was simple, but her writing in Fuga 1 was effective. I like her Fuga 1 design more too. It was more tasteful.
>>717113939
You mean Catherine? I liked her, but I wish CC2 actually showed any of the humans' faces.
>>717114632
The blatant fanservice with characters like Tiere in 3 felt embarrassing. It was so obviously done just to get some easy attention. The character designer of the first two games never felt the need to do that.

>>717114837
Polished turd is still a turd

>>717114897
yeah catherine. she was nice but that's about it.

>>717090950
They hardly look like furries. The artstyle lowkey makes them look like anime humans.

>>717089195 (OP)
I like how Fuga 3 just ends with absolutely no fucking conclusion. Just another bait and switch. What a shitty series.

>>717114897
Nice to see anon with similar opinions about the sequels.

At this point it's wishful thinking, but I assume over the top sequels COULD work, just not with the OG cast, just make a band of misfits who happen to find the Taranis and go on a real adventure, it doesn't even have to be a dozen.
Kids should retire after first game and enjoy rest of their relatively normal life.

>>717089195 (OP)
I am so pissed I got memed into buying the first Fuga

>>717117039
It's the best one. You have nothing to regret

>>717116937
2 was honestly a disaster for the series, and 3 is more Shonen slop that tries way too hard to be edgy

>>717089195 (OP)
>studio uses gacha to fund it's passion project
>one of the best games in the genre
>it gets bombarded by gacha locusts because of some drama unrelated to the game
>studio's passion project flops

>>717117627
>studio's passion project flops
>because it's a shit game
many such cases

the first game was cool but i wanted more downtime activities, and the dungeons sucked
did the sequels improve on this? and did they ever add russian furries?

>>717116937
I think they needed to be bolder with gameplay additions too. The gameplay outside of battle sorely needed an overhaul, but they hardly touched it in the sequels besides some minor additions and changes. Most of all though, I just don't think there needed to be more than one Fuga game. It worked best as a single small experience. I really do not look forward to the noir game with how shit Fuga's writing and presentation ended up being, but at the very least, we now have explicit confirmation it's not going to be the same kind of game.
>>717116856
Everything revolving around the Scarlet Order pisses me off. Absolute dogshit intentionally mysterious sequel bait. Love how it's so tonally incongruent with the rest of the game just so they can set up the next game with edgy Malt.
>>717117039
Play Solatorobo for an actually good LTB game

>>717117627
it kinda flopped because it's too scripted and demands a lot of saving and loading or restarting

>>717117326
>3 is more Shonen slop that tries way too hard to be edgy
Honestly the shonen slop in 3 is such a breath of fresh air after the despair in 1 and whatever 2 was.
>>717117729
>did they ever add russian furries
Vanilla is a Russian Blue cat, other than that no and that's a good thing, only Frenchies and Germs here.

>>717117754
>>Love how it's so tonally incongruent with the rest of the game just so they can set up the next game with edgy Malt.
All that bad end future shit is non-canon and won't be going anywhere. It was all fucking pointless, and likely made for the purpose of fucking with early leakers. The fact that 3 literally just ends is unbelievably frustrating. Now they're too busy shilling DLC costumes.

>>717103916
Fuga is a shota and loli series though

>>717117729
Nope, I was hoping for more downtime too, but they never add more. Just the same rigamarole of intermissions and the few NPCs you can talk to between chapters. The dungeon expeditions get a few new elements but are largely the same. And still no Russians either because Strelka continues to stay in limbo.
>>717118024
As much as I would love for it to be abandoned, this is pure delusion. It all obviously ties into the secret movie, and Matsuyama talks about how they're already starting on the next LTB game in the new interview the official Japanese account retweeted a few days ago. The new illustrations for the October Fuga exhibit are absolutely going to be including related illustrations too since they're supposed to be "depicting the past not shown in the main game and the future after the ending!" I'm certain the Malt and Wappa illustration will be edgy Malt with big titty heroine Wappa.

>>717118628
>because Strelka continues to stay in limbo.
hm
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
mm

>>717118628
Maestro literally tells the player to forget all that they saw because it's a bunch of nonsense, and the ending to 3 completely contradicts these events from taking place in the first place

>>717118891
>the ending to 3 completely contradicts these events from taking place in the first place
How exactly? And do you really think they wouldn't pull more time travel bullshit in the next game? The secret movie exists, is concretely a teaser for the next game, and depicts edgy adult Malt whether you like it or not.

>>717119109
Wasn't King Boron teased in a secret movie and then never happened?
Whatever, you'll see. You'll all see.

>>717119232
No??? The Fuga 2 secret movie teased Boron's ancestor being a legendary warrior, which is exactly what Fuga 3 revealed. Even aside from small details changing because things change during development, Fuga 2 and 3 were both teased in secret movies and happened more or less as depicted.

>>717119232
>>717119343
Everything about boron having an ancient hero ancestor was a real asspull of a retcon and even worse than that is making it so lame in-game

>>717118234
>Little Tail Bronx is a shota and loli series
FTFY

>>717117754
Solatorobo is actually pretty fun and gripped my attention, but fuck is it an easy game. I mean, that's not entirely too bad depending on how you like to play, but for me it stood out. Still, very fun.

>>717097410
What’s wrong with Western Furries?

>>717120813
I wish it was more difficult, but I still like it a lot unlike a certain recent extremely easy LTB game because it has more going for it than just the combat. Quest design, world design, characters, world, presentation, all great.
Man, I can't wait for LTB to go back to the level of technology in TC and SR. Finally seeing what looks like Abyssinia in the next game might be cool, but I'd really prefer to see it in its modern state instead of still being stuck in the Fuga era. A huge part of the appeal of LTB's world before Fuga was the technology, and it feels like they're forgetting that.

>>717121486
I think Fuga still presents the technological aspects well, the machines are impressive but since it draws a lot from WW1/WW2 machinery it still feels a low-tech, even if some of the technology presented is actually pretty advanced, just for the scale and complexity if you think about it. But I agree, the personal mechs and airships from SL-TC are a bit more appealing to me.

>>717090846
>from Lovecraftian horror to whatever the fuck the last game was
They should've kept the darker tone from the first Shadow Hearts all the way through

>>717122819
It scratches the itch of still being out there compared to IRL tech, but it's part of why I wish Fuga was just the first game. It's a cool little thing to do once as a twist from the usual LTB setting, but three, soon(?) to be four, games of it is just too much. I love the cool robots and advanced infrastructure uniquely suited to LTB's world in the sky. Places like Pharaoh in Solatorobo are so captivating. Outside of the war vehicles, the world of Fuga just feels too normal.
On another note, Alicia is so bad. I miss the old LTB character designers. They just don't make hot LTB babes like they used to.