Thread 717140973

>New Shinobi game made by western studio, originally made in Japan
>New Ninja Gaiden made by western studio, originally made in Japan
>New Metroid game made by western studio, originally made in Japan

Has the opposite ever happened? Has Japan ever made a new entry in a franchise that originated in the west?

Wizardry.

Wizardry is not only exclusively made by Japan now but they even bought the entire IP because it was so dead in the west

>>717140973 (OP)
That Japanese super-hard Tetris arcade game. The original was Russian.

>>717140973 (OP)
Yes

>>717141097
japan has pretty much totally taken over tetris for a long ass time now

>>717141097
The original was Soviet, even. Did the creator even have any rights to it in the first place?

>>717141315
They didn't copyright it, they must've copyleft it... Its OUR license now comrade.

>>717140973 (OP)
I know it's originally Japanese, but the modern conception of donkey kong comes from Rareware, a British studio.

>>717140973 (OP)
>>New Shinobi game made by western studio, originally made in Japan
>>New Ninja Gaiden made by western studio, originally made in Japan
>>New Metroid game made by western studio, originally made in Japan
You forgot Streets of Rage 4...
And they're all bad in comparison to their japanese originals.

I can't think of any modern remakes/sequels to western games made by japs.... but i do know that a lot of games in the 8/16 bit days got released in the west first, and then in Japan later on with changes. Battletoads was made easier for its Famicom release for eg.
>>717141565
Rares DK games are all crap compared to the Gameboy game (made by the japanese)

>>717140973 (OP)
Wizardry you cuck

>>717140973 (OP)
There are more Japanese Wizardry games than Western ones at this point, I think?

>>717142313
>tendie dk: low tier garbage arcade dodge Pac-Man rip off
>rare dk: actual gameplay style and identity that defines the franchise
Ninty is lucky rare saved dk

>>717143831
Nintendo had heavy involvement in the design of the Country series. To say it was just Rare is narrow-sighted.

>>717144031
are there interviews demonstrating that nintendo had a lot of control on the game design level for dkc? i would assume they had more of a managerial role, they visit, they say it looks good, they leave. what did they veto, if anything, from what rare did?

>>717144031
They tried to ruin it yes and rare valiantly told the retarded nip suits to fuck off

>>717142313
Add River City Girls. Absolute dog shit.

Donkey Kong

What Japanese studio could even make a good Ninja Gaiden sequel? Name one that makes good platformers other than Inti (and even then their best ones aren't anything like NG).

For whatever reason, particular Japanese games have bigger followings in the west, and at a certain point they just tell people "we don't really know what you want, so make your own sequel".

>>717144742
More like Japanese just fall on their face and fail so white men have to bail them out. Then when franchise is saved the nips are like okay we take it back now and inevitably fuck it up again

>>717140973 (OP)
don't forget samurai pizza cats. the game seems to be chock-full of homages and the animated portion of the trailer looks fantastic, being animated traditionally. and they even got almost all the english and jp VAs several decades later, which is impressive. they even made a playful jab at the english title ("I'll explain. abroad the series is known as samurai pizza cats"). not sure about gameplay

>>717140973 (OP)
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3

90% sure there's some kind of Japanese developed Wizardry, on NES.

>>717144741
In... fuck. M2 and Tengo Project would do a great job, really.

>>717140973 (OP)
You forgot Red Dead

>>717146090
red dead revolver wasn't a japanese game

>>717140973 (OP)
Bananza

>>717144741
Welp, a Russian made Cyber shadow which is basically NES Ninja Gaiden III and Shatterhand fused together.

>>717145603
>developed by Team Ninja

Huh, I never even knew

>>717142313
Literally every single one of the games you mentioned was done better except ng.
>sor4
>bad in comparison
lmao, the first two games would be unplayable without their soundtrack.

>>717142313
>Shitting on Dread, Streets of Rage 4 and DKC

>>717141040
>>717141059
>>717143426
>>717143581
>>717145645
>Want to play a drpg
>90% of them are barebones japanese wizardry clones
I hate Experience

Almost every single WWE game was made by the Japanese studio Yuke's for close to 20 years, until 2020.

>>717147438
They also make barebones Dragon Quest 3 clones now.

>>717140973 (OP)
Marvel games fighting games.

>>717148138
>New rpg with Himukai as character designer
>It's developed by Experience
I really should stop asking for wishes to the monkey's paw

>>717147179
Also the new NG is good, just the original is the best platformer ever made, with two nearly as good sequels.

>>717140973 (OP)
Star Fox (Argonaut games) and Star Fox Zero/Assault (Namco)

>>717148409
If it makes you feel better someone made the same wish with arguably worse results:
https://youtu.be/GlMBax-_n5E?si=RfxoAKxDnMMITHz4

>>717146894
Cyber Shadow is excellent. Very much in the "Westerner who grew up playing Japanese games and then made one" subgenre of indie games, though.

>>717142313
>And they're all bad in comparison to their japanese originals.
Not so, Weeb-sama. I prefer the NES games to Ragebound, but Ragebound is still a great game. Art of Vengeance is shaping up to be a gem too, and I'm about as big a Shinobi fan as exists.

I'm a little disappointed with Dread but I'd hardly call it bad either. It's still good, even compared to previous games.

>>717146894
>>717148713
I tried to play that 3 times and gave up a couple stages in. It's just... tepid. For a ninja game it feels very slow and enemy placement was annoying rather than challenging.

>>717149095
I didn't care for it much either. Of the retro indie ninja action game subgenre I think Moonrider is my favorite, questionable motorcycle sections notwithstanding.

>>717149095
It feels slow because they made the mistake of drip-feeding abilities. You get the dash attack quite late. Of course, being an indie game, they'll never make a sequel where they make it even better.

>>717142313
>t. ken-sama

>>717147438
Experience is literally a slightly incorporated doujin circle, they make barebones games because they're part timers with no money

>>717140973 (OP)
There are way more japanese-developed licensed games created from western properties than vice versa. In fact I'd like to hear a western-developed game that was licensed from a japanese property.

>>717144364
>>717143831
Shut the fuck up with your lies, Eric.

>>717140973 (OP)
>Has Japan ever made a new entry in a franchise that originated in the west?
Transformers Devastation? It was made by Platinum.

>>717154436
i believe OP means videogame franchises, because if we are talking about "western cartoons into videogames" the 16bit era has a ton.

>>717154805
Many Transoformers games were made by western studios before though.

>>717140973 (OP)
Shadowgate 64

>>717145364
Baste M2 enjoyer

>>717156129
This game was my Power Stone as a kid. I spent hundreds of hours wrecking buildings and messing around with cheat codes.

>>717145364
And that's not the only Atari/Midway example. Konami developed a Japan-exclusive version of Rampart for the Famicom that adds a lot of new content beyond the main arcade game.