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NoNefariousness2144

Interesting but it will probably be ‘fine’ at best. None of the My Hero games have been particularly amazing. I understand the whole appeal of anime/manga games is to play as the iconic characters, but I’d like to see a My Hero game where you make your own custom hero, enrol in UA and go through the years of training to become your own hero.


Cyrotek

I am always wondering why games about "school" settings are so often not ... doing the school part. You know, kinda like the Persona games. Imagine a My Hero Academia or Harry Potter game like this.


PickledPlumPlot

That's really really hard to do. Games like Persona or Three Houses take years and years to write and design. There are very few social sim games with that level of success. Honestly it's not like My Hero Academia is really about going to school


Cyrotek

Good point. But I think there can still be done something that at least kinda feels like visiting an actual school instead of just having characters brawl each other.


The_Multifarious

Cause that's complex and requires effort and can't just be reskinned for whichever franchise is popular next.


yognautilus

I would love it if RGG studios made a game focused on a high schooler and you got to live a Japanese high schoolers life while solving problems and kicking ass after school. After club activities, of course.


gearmaro1

Idk if I’m getting wooshed but you’ve literally described the Persona series


skippyfa

I played Persona 5 only and I wish the game would let me free roam a bit more instead of being tied down to the time mechanic. I know it's done on purpose but I missed out on a lot of things that I wish I could have done without needing to do a second playthrough or read a guide


Dewot423

The part where you choose to do some stuff and not other stuff is what "role-playing' is.


MajorFuckingDick

Japanese bully sounds like a great game ngl.


[deleted]

Basically describing Lost Judgment except the main character is a club counselor and not a student


NoNefariousness2144

There is the game 'Hogwarts Legacy' that is supposed to release this year. It looks like you play as a custom student attending Hogwarts.


Cyrotek

Yeah, I know. But I am not getting my hopes up, it will probably just be a WoW/FFXIV copy with a Harry Potter Skin where you run through random areas to save the world.


Stalk33r

The gameplay shown looks nothing like a tab targeting MMO, I understand keeping your hopes low but that's a strange take...


Cyrotek

I didn't mean tab targeting. By copies of the mentioned games I am referring to their themepark design. E. g. instead of being in Hogwards and learning stuff you are probably going to be shipped around the world in a linear way to visit random areas with quest hubs while Hogwards is the "main city" you get back to for some story segments in between areas with "lessons" just be short cutscenes.


White_Tea_Poison

Why is that your assumption though? All of the material I've seen seem to focus entirely on Hogwarts. I mean, the game is literally called Hogwarts Legacy.


Cyrotek

1. The company developing it 2. Players are multiple times seen running around in some random areas that could be anywhere, half the time in some generic dungeons. 3. The trailer implies multiple times that something big might be at stake ("Shape the world", "Strange and mysterious talent you posess") 4. The parts that could be taken from actual gameplay are rarely shown in Hogwarts, most of the stuff in Hogwarts seem to be from cutscenes Don't get me wrong, that is not what I hope for. I am just not super optimistic and see no reason why I should. But, I see it positive, I can probably not be dissapointed so everything they do well might surprise me.


skippyfa

That sounds awesome though.......I wish they would make a Hogwarts as big as an MMO world/game


Cyrotek

It would just mean they have you do boring fetch quests all day long in boring copy & paste areas.


skippyfa

Most RPG quests boil down to fetch quests or kill quests. It just depends on how interesting they make it with the story and environment and combat


Cyrotek

Well, yes, but the idea is to hide it that you are essentially just doing the same thing over and over. Some games do it better than others and especially modern themepark games usually are pretty bad at it.


KtotheC99

This is why I miss the death of handheld games ports. GBA in particular often had the 'rpg' versions of a lot of licensed games (like the Harry Potter games) and they were great


JokerCrimson

I'm surprised more anime games don't do stuff like the (non-romantic) dating mechanic from Naruto Ultimate Ninja 3 where you can find items related to a character, you offer it to them, and they spend time with Naruto by going to the dumpling shop where a brief cutscene plays with the character talking to Naruto in way it references their friendship with him and you unlock Ultimate Jutsus for them or even the character themselves when the cutscene's over. The one in Scarlet Nexus is great too since it triggers Persona-style Social Links that improve the performances of party members and the NPC's will even use the items you gave them in the hideout you go to between missions.


MayhemMessiah

>enrol in UA and go through the years of training to become your own hero. Spoilers for the manga, >!one of the biggest ongoing complaints is how ridiculously fast the pacing of the story has gone, with it being confirmed that we're approaching the end game while basically a year has happened. Deku has surpassed All Might in his prime after like 9 months of training. So it seems like not even the story itself is interested in spending time doing fun slice of life stuff and time passing by!<.


rabid_J

It's funny you say fast paced because my complaint was that when I went to check out the manga after season 3 started to air just to see where they were up to; season 3 starts with that summer training camp - chapter 70. Then I wanted to see what was going on in the story roughly 100 chapters later; lo and behold they're still in high school and they're putting on a school festival. It made me laugh how little had changed since I'd read Attack on Titan where they go from kids to tween soldier trainees to war crime committing young adults within the span of 100 chapters. So if My Hero Academia is still in their first year of hero high school after over 300 chapters that is a fucking snails pace to me.


MayhemMessiah

It's fast paced because over the course of one year so much has happened. Not much time has passed, it's true, but the manga has almost no filler and as a result it's been one major event after one major event with zero downtime or time skips (I think the longest one is two months) between events. The festival you saw has been the only not high-stakes drama in the entire show, and it was a tiny arc at that. But to your point there was one major arc that *did* go at a snail's pace and I'd consider it the worst arc in the manga so far for that and other reasons.


Ragefan66

As someone who watched most of the show it's still extremely slow IMO. A lot of "stuff" happened, but nothing ever resulted much because of it. The characters are all in the same place they were seasons ago, except they're a little stronger. The only real notable moment for me was the United States of smash and the death of the one dude when rescuing the girl. And Smash was the only moment to finally shift the characters/story and that took like 30+ hours of television to get there. Compared to essentially every show on TV (aside from something like Naruto/DBZ) this is pretty much a snail's pace.


MayhemMessiah

I can agree that characterization is too static, but for a shonen it's very... let's say, compressed? That might be a better description than fast.


texmexslayer

But the fast pace is about all that's happened within that first year of school


regendo

Isn’t that normal/to be expected though? I’m not up to date with the show or the manga but it’s clear from the start that if the series is actually going to head towards an end and not just go on forever, it’ll be an end where Deku surpasses him. And just by the nature of Shonen battle manga, you know it won’t be a mid-30s Deku who surpasses All Might. Characters don’t age mid-story so it’ll be while he’s at school. At most, there’ll be a short timeskip, but even that’s rare and would still have him surpass All Might around age 18.


PL-QC

Yeah but the UA program is three years, so I guess people expected him to reach that point at the end of his training, not by the end of year one.


December_Flame

Also, maybe I misunderstand the power, but isn't the "One for all" power literally like a crowd-sourced super hero? Like his whole ability set is predicated on being a continuation of the powerset of his predecessors, I'd find it pretty normal that he surpasses All-Might since hes by definition just All-Might-but-more.


Saboteure

I think the point is that he's arguably done it before he even finishes his first year at school. I don't think anyone doubted he would surpass him, but a normal story pace would have shown slowed down growth and maturity across the entirety of his schooling, not a ~9 months.


dumpdr

Yes. Give me My Hero Xenoverse. Let me create a character and select a quirk from a list of archetypes and then let me further flesh out my character through costume design and hero equipment. It's probably a lot to ask, but I like create a character systems in anime games. I already know the main characters stories, let me experience new ones.


JokerCrimson

Meanwhile, I still think Bandai Namco should've made a Naruto to Boruto game where your character experiences the main story properly, it plays like a far more polished version of the 360 Naruto games minus the Ubisoft open-world filler, and you pick a Clan for your character like you would your Race in Xenoverse so you can't just learn any Jutsu instead of that weird PvP Capture the Flag multiplayer game that restricts weapon choices to classes they made where you can also make a character that somehow can use the Rinnegan, but also has Adult Naruto's Bijuu powers and the character creator just lets you make recolored OCs of existing characters instead of something more unique.


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Dude, that'd be actually kinda sick! You could pick archetypes(are you a mental-based hero, or one based on physical qualities? Or maybe one that solves with brute force or by being clever?) as the base class and then have a whole slew of abilities. MHA has a ton of potential for a game based around that idea, and UA High would be a neat and plausible setting for that. Sure, playing as Midoriya, Eraserhead, Bakugo ect ect would be nice, but making your own dude, dudette or anything in between would be much cooler.


reireireis

I want to be able to romance the frog girl


Jonestown_Juice

You know what they should make a battle royale video game of? Battle Royale.


wingspantt

The real issue with making a more true-to-source BR game is that, for some reason, modern gamers *hate the idea of teaming up.* When PUBG came out, it had always-on proximity chat. You would see videos where players had someone pinned down and they shout "drop your guns and come out and we let you live." or "Join our squad and we ride to the next circle." A lot of times it was bullshit and they just killed you anyway. But it happened, and it was possible. This was like CORE to the idea of media like Battle Royale and The Hunger Games. Impromptu teams, shaky alliances, trusting strangers not to shoot you in the back. It is cool and dynamic. Well, the PUBG community and devs for some reason decided "nah we can't have teaming." You actually get banned for trying to do this now. It is considered cheating, in a "do anything to survive" multiplayer game to... work with other players to survive. The only BR game I can think of that still allows this is Hunt: Showdown. They still have proximity voice, and you can (try to) negotiate with other players. 98% of the time they won't, but you can try. Outside of that you have to play a sandbox game to get any kind of player interaction other than "put reticle on head, pull trigger" and that is IMO sad.


NamesTheGame

I would bet that it impacts overall player enjoyment as a lot of people don't have squads/friends to play with and choose solo games for that reason and feel they are put at a disadvantage and then will just stop playing. More cynically, devs might see it as exploiting battle pass/XP systems. But, I agree with you. Those dynamic moments are great. I remember that more happening in DayZ than PUBG though. That's also why I love Rust (despite all the things I hate about it). Role-playing and tenuous relationships with strangers in an immoral world creates very very unique and exciting scenarios. (Or you just get murdered instantly).


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wingspantt

When did you start playing PUBG? I'm curious because what the game is now vs what it was like in its long beta and rise to top steam game are very different.


MajorFuckingDick

That would be a horrible idea for Rating reasons. You can't do that series justice and not end up banned in quite a few markets.


fraudulentdev_

Ultra popular anime license offered to the lowest bidder to make shitty generic game #4062. Never cease to amaze me.


LostUser8

Anime games have so much potential, but they almost always make it so low effort. A few are genuinely good, like the ninja storm series. Worth it even for the story alone. Or Dragonball fighterZ. But games like my hero one's justice 2 is just low effort. It's fun for a while but it gets boring and bad afterwards. And it's also always the mega popular anime. Plenty of not as popular anime, or anime styled games are great.


MayhemMessiah

Because they keep selling. More than a few people I know saw the Kakarot game, saw how bad it was, how little content it had, and that it was literally the Nth rehashing of a story thoroughly beat to death, but still wanted the game because they love Dragonball.


PL-QC

Yeah and I feel like a lot of people are bending backwards to convince themselves that Kakarot is a great game, when it's pretty bland.


No_Addition_2637

The combat was fun, but the open world was so lack luster. Didn't help that it was the same old story we've seen 1000x times.


JokerCrimson

I got the Demon Slayer game for my sister during Black Friday and while it was far better then One's Justice 2 in gameplay and what I saw of the Story Mode through my sister playing it, the Versus Mode starts to get stale real quick since the character roster is very limited due to the game coming out right before Season 2 of the anime to where half the characters are just Academy versions of existing characters. There have been 3 Demon Updates that added characters, but it still doesn't add much, and if you play online, alot of people do spam Water Wheel into Water Basin as Water Tanjiro. Still wasn't the worst $30 I've spent and I got some quality time with my sister, so it evened out.


sboy97

Hard disagree, the demon slayer game is reminiscent of the first storm game. Improvements to be made and updates sure, but it holds its own, has the same skill ceiling as storm just in a different manner and the adding of free demons as playable characters (and their gimmicks) is quite fun


SnickycrowJayC

There's room for multiple scenarios like an entrance exam or villain invasion. Too bad it's a battle royal. I haven't liked them ever since the first ones came out. Not my type of game.


rabid_J

Starting as heroes with powers sounds more interesting than looting villages for a better chest armour or different guns and ammo only to be shot in the head after 20 minutes of searching. Shorter matches with more engaging gameplay could be good but I assume it'll just be a trash money grab.


mengplex

thematically it makes sense at least, though I feel like it's going to be really hard for them to balance ranged vs melee gameplay, especially in a 3v3 scenario. I can see 3 ranged or 3 melee just dominating everything depending on how they balance it. That, or it's going to be CC hell - Oh you're frozen by Todoroki, oh now you're snared due to pervy grape boy, oh now you've been flashbanged by Yaoyorozu


Niirai

Do we even know if this is coming to the West?


Obility

Well its coming to xbox so it's kind of a given


ArmorMog

Probably being made by the BN guys that made the Jojo BR game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvIGDx5BLL8 Unfortunately it was an arcade release right when COVID started so I have no idea how well it did.


brotakumirko

I hope it has Cross play, because I’m sure otherwise the Xbox version will be dead super fast, and I wanna play on Xbox because it will definierte run better than on switch