Say what you will, but I still don't trust them on that: they had "no plans" of releasing PLvsPW either, and even if it took two years eventually they did. And nothing it taking off my mind the idea that the main reason why GK2 wasn't localized was because it was a DS game that would have come out during the launch of the 3DS, call me a conspirationist if you will. It's just that Capcom isn't the kind of company that hates money, even if it's just a quick buck. The only thing they seem to have problems with are new games that don't have an established franchise behind themselves, and AA definitely isn't.
Still, the supernatural element is an integral part of the series, whether people like it or not. What I don't get is the whole getting upset about this forthcoming game and treating it as if it's the franchise jumping the shark, when Trilogy has established that spirit channeling is a thing that exists and works, that there's a mystical object charged with the spiritual power of a 9-years-old medium that gets used several times during the second and third game to find out whether someone's lying, and that somewhere in the courtroom records of that world there's a report about a trial during which the spirit of a criminal that had already been executed for her crimes possessed a medium and carried out other crimes in revenge. Among the other things, that is. I can understand fans being afraid that Yamazaki might end giving a lame explanation to the Fey's powers and/or retcon some things about how spirit channeling worked so far for the sake of building up the world he's creating in his take on the story, but saying that "it doesn't belong in an AA game" or is a departure from the original concept feels like fanboyism (and this comes from somebody that has about as many problems with Yamazaki's writing as with Takumi's).
You don't even need to go look for historical stuff, in most of today's bookshops in Japan there is a section for supernatural detective novels alone, whether it involves ghosts, reincarnation or just folklore monsters. I've always been curious about this, but never really read many essays or research on the matter.
Personally I like of this kind of stories (although of course I don't take them as masterpieces of the genre) because of how different from the Western way of depicting it is. Also because due to the supernatural element they end focussing less on the investigation itself and more on development, thinking things outside of the box and so forth, which is an interesting approach to it, even if in the end the resolution makes no sense. In a way the Layton series is kind of a response to it, since all games seem to have a supernatural event which in the end turns out to be perfectly explainable scientifically (even if, like in the novels I mentioned above, the explanation and resolution in the end make no sense).
Well, people into female breasts and legs did get their fill with this picture of Cammy and Chun Li (looking damn good indeed), gotta give other fans their share too. This however makes me kinda curious about how Vega will be portrayed in this version for those who are into prettier men, he's already over-the-top and flamboyant as it is.
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Date: 2015-09-02 10:58 am (UTC)Still, the supernatural element is an integral part of the series, whether people like it or not. What I don't get is the whole getting upset about this forthcoming game and treating it as if it's the franchise jumping the shark, when Trilogy has established that spirit channeling is a thing that exists and works, that there's a mystical object charged with the spiritual power of a 9-years-old medium that gets used several times during the second and third game to find out whether someone's lying, and that somewhere in the courtroom records of that world there's a report about a trial during which the spirit of a criminal that had already been executed for her crimes possessed a medium and carried out other crimes in revenge. Among the other things, that is. I can understand fans being afraid that Yamazaki might end giving a lame explanation to the Fey's powers and/or retcon some things about how spirit channeling worked so far for the sake of building up the world he's creating in his take on the story, but saying that "it doesn't belong in an AA game" or is a departure from the original concept feels like fanboyism (and this comes from somebody that has about as many problems with Yamazaki's writing as with Takumi's).
You don't even need to go look for historical stuff, in most of today's bookshops in Japan there is a section for supernatural detective novels alone, whether it involves ghosts, reincarnation or just folklore monsters. I've always been curious about this, but never really read many essays or research on the matter.
Personally I like of this kind of stories (although of course I don't take them as masterpieces of the genre) because of how different from the Western way of depicting it is. Also because due to the supernatural element they end focussing less on the investigation itself and more on development, thinking things outside of the box and so forth, which is an interesting approach to it, even if in the end the resolution makes no sense. In a way the Layton series is kind of a response to it, since all games seem to have a supernatural event which in the end turns out to be perfectly explainable scientifically (even if, like in the novels I mentioned above, the explanation and resolution in the end make no sense).
Well, people into female breasts and legs did get their fill with this picture of Cammy and Chun Li (looking damn good indeed), gotta give other fans their share too. This however makes me kinda curious about how Vega will be portrayed in this version for those who are into prettier men, he's already over-the-top and flamboyant as it is.