• 3 years ago
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    Whelp, Level-5 shut down its North American branch in Santa Monica. Sounds like people really hated working at that office. So now Level-5 might be out of commission outside of Japan.

    Aside from missing out on Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds, this is fine. Sigh...
    https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/10/professor_layton_dev_level-5_has_no_plans_for_future_games_outside_of_japan_says_report
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      Editing … They are a terrible developer... to my knowledge the only decent thing they've made is Professor Layton. Which makes me wonder if that also sucks and I just hadn't noticed at the time.
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      Editing … I also still can't wrap my head around how much Yokai Watch plagiarizes Mega Man Star Force. I used to assume well people ignore it because of quality discrepancy. That was until I actually played the demos for the Yokai Watch games.
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      Editing … I think they may be some sort of racket, since all their games have anime cutscenes and they even got Studio Ghibli mixed up in it. Where do they get the money for this.
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      Editing … I don't know about now, but in the past Level-5 has released a bunch of classic games, including DQ8 and the Dark Cloud games.
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      Editing … I liked Dragon Quest 8 and 9. But they were working as publishers in that situation. I dunno, they spent way too much time on that kiddie anime aesthetic in their later years.
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      Editing … damnit, I was actually looking forward to trying 8, it's one of the only remaining 3DS games I was actually interested in trying. But I played 9 and hated it. Gave up after about ten minutes.
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      Editing … I don't know what you mean. Level-5 developed 8 and 9. They were published by Square.
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      Editing … Yeah, I lost my memory over Dragon Quest. Lol. All I know is that Chunsoft developed the first few Dragon Quest games. Lessee...then developer roles changed from Heartbeat in DQ 6 and 7 to Level-5 for 8 and 9. Yeah, Dragon Quest 9 was published by Nintendo in the U.S. That really confused me for the rest of the series.
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      Editing … And Dragon Quest 12 will be published by a dog, just to make the credits easier to figure out.
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      Editing … Aside from that, Level-5 haven't really done much except expand on their anime adaptation empire.
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    So, my favorite game of all time is Ni No Kuni.
    And guess what: Yo-Kai Watch! at the moment is the favorite game of my 4yr old.
    AND it is the first game we played through together. Such a great feeling to accomplish that. Gaming with him is the best! We are cheering while the other is playing and tell us how much we believe in each other. It is pure love to play a game with him and I love sharing a hobby with him. I even managed that he get's a real Yo-Kai Watch and Medals and stuff. So we also play the game without the 3DS. ^.^
    So after I realized, that Level 5 is connected to such great moments in life, I have to put them on top of my list. ^.^
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      Editing … Did you try #Inazuma Eleven? I'm sure he'd also like it. :)
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      Editing … Right now, I think he won't get the control on the field, but I already got 3 of them installed on my 3DS, so at a later point we def. will play them. :) Also I can't wait till he is old enough to understand Paper Mario Sticker Star. :) Another emotional game for me, as it was the last christmas gift, my mum gave me. (4yrs. ago)
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      Editing … Today we start to play postgame. There is so much todo and we celebrate everytime we find a new Yo-Kai. ^.^
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Kabushiki-gaisha Reberu Faibu J
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