The fourth announcement in the Platinum 4 campaign has a date!
Mark your calendars for...April 1st?!
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Calling it now, there will be two "announcements." One will be an obviously fake one, causing us to be all "pffft, yeah right." And then, there'll be the real announcement.
Question is...what would be real and what would be fake?
So far, we have these scenarios:
- Gameplay (and release date?) for Bayonetta 3.
- Viewtiful Joe 3 announcement.
- Ōkami 2 announcement.
- Bayonetta vs. Devil May Cry
- Drakengard 4 and/or NieR 3
And just for the heck of it, let me brainstorm other crazy scenarios because April Fools is on the table:
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance remaster announced. (Won't happen because Konami is Konami and Konami is the worst.)
- Scalebound revived as something way less grounded than the initial version for Xbox Series X. (Also won't happen since Microsoft is kinda prickly about anime.)
- A Platinum-based Sonic game. (I don't care how Platinum would do a Sonic game, I just thought since Platinum specialized at high-octane gameplay and Sonic IS the epitome of speed, Platinum will figure out SOMETHING.)
- A new Jet Set Radio game. (Also won't happen because I don't know.)
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Mar 25th 2020 at 10:12:32 AM
Thank you, Monty Oum.
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Kamiya is unblocking everyone he's ever blocked on Twitter and swearing off the use of the function.
Edited by VutherA on Mar 25th 2020 at 2:49:00 PM
The Head of the Hydra
Has that happened before?
Thank you, Monty Oum.
Not that I know of, though I'd admit I don't pay close attention to the man so that might have even happened.
Edited by VutherA on Mar 25th 2020 at 2:52:00 PM
...Literally forgot Platinum did a DS game.
I can't speak for myself, but I know one of my favorite YouTubers Pan-Pizza got blocked by Kamiya-sensei for asking him to do a remaster of Anarchy Reigns...in English. (Kamiya-sensei apparently doesn't like English tweets asking him for stuff.)
Face me now, Bitch!
@Target Master Joe: Remember that April Fools day in Japan is actually the ending of their 4th quarter of their fiscal year there, so while there are joke announcements, most of them are actually real.
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The unblocking is due to the Wonderful 101 kickstarter. I thought it was just for everyone who made the pledges that included Kamiya blocking them.
Ordinary Corrupt Android Love
Twitter is largely for idiots and/or masochists anyway.
Self-serious autistic metalhead who goes by any pronouns. (avvie template source)
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The youtube description is tagged as #April Fools #April Fools' Day #Gotcha so for now, take this as an April Fools thing.
lmao at using the final announcement for this though
HA! Joke's on them, because I have no nostalgia for Terra Cresta, so I have no problem believing this to be a trick! Let the record show that I was skeptical the second I read that they had something big to announce on April 1st!
For context, Terra Cresta was a series of vertical shoot-em-up arcade games from the 80's where your ship could turn into an invincible phoenix...somehow.
One could easily tell this is bogus since arcade cabinets are, in places besides Japan, crazy niche, so selling a brand new arcade cabinet at $17,000 minus tax sounds like a tall order what with the average cabinet ranging between $2,799 to $4,299.
Real talk though, if this winds up being legit in a year or two tops, (which I don't see happening so I wouldn't hold my breath), I could see Sol Cresta being made as a digital release with HD graphics and an asking price of $20 to $30. (Though pretty sneaky of them plugging in a release date for The Wonderful 101 Remastered at the very end...)
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Face me now, Bitch!
So like the Capcom 5, now. 
What a tweeeest! 
And it's pretty funny when you realize the guys who established Platinum (or at least Hideki Kamiya and Shinji Mikami) started off as Capcom dudes.
Actually, can it really be Platinum 5 when the fourth announcement was an April Fools gag?
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Apr 3rd 2020 at 10:05:54 AM
Face me now, Bitch!
Its still an actual game, though.
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All right, I admit that the Sol Cresta trailer still gives me chills even today, but given how it was on April Fools Day, I reserve any form of hype for an actual release until the day Platinum says something like "Hey guys! Remember that top-down shooter we were joking about one April Fools' Day? We're actually doing it! Look! It evolves from pixels to HD 4K polygons the deeper you play! It's coming in 2022!"
Bump.
Due to COVID-19 still being prominent, the physical release of The Wonderful 101: Remastered is getting pushed to June 30th for the USA and July 3rd for Europe.
That said, digital versions are still set to release on their designated dates of May 19th for US and May 22nd for Europe.
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Sol Cresta is still a thing! For real this time!
(Last year Platinum announced it as an april fool's joke but it seems like they're actually making this game this time)
English announcement trailer:
Huh. I mean, on one hand, yeah, I already figured Sol Cresta was going to be a real thing because shoot-em-ups aren't that impossible, yeah? On the other hand, it looks like I was way off on how it was going to play.
The cynic in me still thinks there's something up, but if there's an ESRB rating and actual gameplay, that's less reason to be skeptical.
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Kamiya has elaborated on the reasons for cancelling Scalebound in a new interview.
While it was a personal wish of mine, I thought it was also a necessary mission for Platinum Games to improve our graphical ability and get to the next step of modern game creation. So we first decided to go with a universe like that.
I loved fantasy worlds since I was a child. I’ve always enjoyed worlds with swords, magic, and dragons. When I was a child, I don’t know if people overseas are familiar with these, but I would play Sorcerian, Hydlide, all these fantasy games from the classic PC era that I really enjoyed. I always wanted to make something around that theme. This is how I thought of a world revolving around a young man fighting together with a dragon.
However, it was a big challenge for Platinum Games. We were working in an environment we weren’t used to. We were developing on the Unreal engine, we also lacked the necessary know-how to build a game based on online features. The hurdles we had to overcome were very big.
We weren’t experienced enough and couldn’t get over that wall, leading to what happened in the end. I’m sorry to the players who looked forward to it, and moreover I’m sorry to Microsoft who had placed their trust in us as a business partner. I want to apologize both as a creator and as a member of Platinum Games.
Yeah, live service games are a hard "NO" out of me. Anyone else feel the same?
That all you got?
I immediately lost all confidence in Babylon's Fall when I found out they'd changed it to a multiplayer GOAS game. Which is a shame because it looked really cool.
That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.
Goddess of Nature
Same.
It’s a shame that games that are within my tastes are not seen as big money makers.
You know, I have to wonder why Pit is obsessed with this site. It’s gonna ruin his life!
Platinum has established
a new studio in Tokyo, which is considered the third of the Platinum 4 announcements.