Game news Babylon’s Fall: Square Enix and NieR Automata devs rely on gamers to save their game
After a long silence regarding its development and release, Babylon’s Fall was thought to be off the hook. Except that this idyllic scenario did not take place: the title of PlatinumGames did not convince during its beta phases, its economic model got the better of the attention of many players and its launch did not arouse any enthusiasm. Faced with this sad reality, Square Enix and PlatinumGames have resolved to ask players for a helping hand.
Summary
- Platinum doesn’t strike gold with its PlayStation and PC exclusive
- The slaughter of Babylon
Platinum doesn’t strike gold with its PlayStation and PC exclusive
Parachuted into the heart of a very busy video game schedule, the new game from PlatinumGames added more thorns in the side than it took away! However, he had tried to take care of his launch by putting the forms in it: the announcement of a crossover for the first season of the game with one of Square Enix’s flagship franchises and one of the studio’s biggest hits as well just a trailer the most effective way to announce its availability.
The observation is hard and the reality all the more brutal for the Square Enix and PlatinumGames pair since, this release, the players were far from expecting it like the messiah or like any other production from the Japanese studio, often synonymous with quality. For its release, Babylon’s Fall only managed to collect a derisory number of players and, even now, at the time these lines are written, there are only 140 players online.
The slaughter of Babylon
When one is aware of the creative talent of the PlatinumGames studio, such a shipwreck leaves a taste all the more bitter in the mouth. For the company and its publisher, it is not so much the bitterness that predominates as the ferrous taste of blood following the uppercut cashed during the discovery of the reception of the critics and the public. A few days ago we shared our impressions with you through the writing of our test which left us more than perplexed by this title yet full of promise in its infancy.
Without being beaten down, nor armed with a shovel to already dig the grave of the game, Square Enix and PlatinumGames are rather of the vengeful type on this one: it will not be the fall and the crash for Babylon’s Fall, but ascension and glory. At least, in the convictions of the two partners. To give color to their latest production, the two friends decided to publish a survey and collect player comments in order to be able to offer them ” an even better gaming experience ».
However, we notice that this survey is very oriented on a very particular component, namely the graphics of the action-RPG. If this is one of the major projects of the title, the players certainly have much more to say than to discuss the general aesthetics of the game. Design, characters, equipment, enemies, visuals: it’s all there! Anyway, it’s a first stone laid by Square Enix and PlatinumGames in the long process of (re) conquering the public and it might be that other requests of this kind come back in the future.
By JinxebWriting jeuxvideo.com
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