Pokémon Meets Waifus! Azur Promilia Will Be a Big Deal on PS5

@get2sammyb I;m Surprised the Tagline Didn't Say Something like Gotta Gatcham all or something like it.

So is this a single player game? If so I might look into it. Although it would have been better had Sony of 7 years ago released it. Todays Sony and waifu games don’t really go together well.

Azur Lane is the only gacha I play, so this interests me.

Their character design is the best amongst all the gachas too.

So Western gaming is dominated by sad dads, tales of anguish, bitter endings, "artistic" hero-always-dies scenarios, and grim apocalyptic settings. China meanwhile has cornered the market on selling harems via lottery, one magical girl at a time.

Are we still wondering why western devs are downsizing and closing at record pace?

It's ironic though that the source of all the all-consuming harem gatcha games is the same country cracking down on time spent gaming. You'd think they'd be celebrating the one and done 6 hour adventure rather than life-sucking gatchas.

@thefourfoldroot1 They're Chinese-made games, though, China's pretty strict on the censorship of suggestive content. It's very well aligned with modern Sony. One could say that's not a coincidence.

Was wondering what Manjuu/Yostar was cooking up over the years (other than Aether Gazer). Excited to see where this goes. Sad it isn't actually related to Azur Lane though.
And for what they have shown, this already look pretty damn polished. Im impressed.

Pokemon + waifus but will be gacha mechanic? Sounds ridiculous!
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I'm in...

Love that other studios are taking pokemon like formula and bringing it to a wider audience. This and Palword for example. The last Nintendo game console I owned was an NES so I've never played Pokemon but always had a interest in it. Played Genshin for a bit and tried HSR but they didnt stick for me. Looking forward to giving this a go.

@NEStalgia
"Are we still wondering why western devs are downsizing and closing at record pace?"

No.

The west is using too much money on games and they aren't selling enough to keep the phase. The chinese games you talk about cost peanuts (in comparison). The topic of the games has nothing to do with the current situation of the industry. People love to use Elden Ring as an example of the best to make less a lot of games so using Fromsoftware as an example by your logic they shouldn't exist anymore but they do because they don't waste millions in graphics, they do just enough. Smaller japanese studios have said it before, the industry (the consumers) are expecting games that are just too expensive to make. The funny thing is that a lot of people who talk about the industry and what is bad with it will see Ronin in a couple of days and one of the main things they will criticize is how the game looks "dated" LOL. They want a better industry but also want small studios to use all the money possible so the game looks "great" even when that move can kill the studio.

@gymratAmarillo Yeah, I know that, it was a bit of humor. That having been said though, if those $300M AAAA Western games featured harem magical girl lotteries they probably would make that money back faster than grim sad art games for emos 😂

Elden is an anomaly that sold on hype more than anything IMO. Not that it's not a great game, it surely is, I even enjoyed it and I hate soulsborne in general. But the actual game is just not mass market appealing on its own where you'd think it would sell like it did. But yeah Japanese devs budget accordingly for the real market. Western devs build what the want, no matter the cost, and hope it'll create a market that didn't exist before it, or just hope to be the next lightning in a bottle miracle story.