Gamespot: Devil's Third is near-impossible to recommend ...

[Technophilz]

This actually worries me since Yu Suzuki appeared in the game's Niconico broadcast ...



You can read the full review here

[fittersau]

It really depends on how much his involvement was during the game. Itagaki hosting Yu Suzuki was either a stunt riding off the Shenmue 3 success or Suzuki was actually heavily involved in the development of Devil's Third. Which could be worrisome.

The game itself looks so B-Grade action and there's some obviously bad AI.. but who knows where Itagaki starts and Suzuki finishes..what did I just say?..

[Technophilz]

I am not sure if Suzuki is officially involved with this game or not, but what worries me is that it's made using the Unreal Engine. Moreover it had a decent 34/40 score from Famitsu in Japan while western media gave it a very low score (Edge 1.5/5 and Gamespot 3/10) ...

[fittersau]

I am not sure if Suzuki is officially involved with this game or not, but what worries me is that it's made using the Unreal Engine. Moreover it had a decent 34/40 score from Famitsu in Japan while western media gave it a very low score (Edge 1.5/5 and Gamespot 3/10) ...

Japanese games cater for Japanese.. and us who like Japanese games. I'm not saying Gamespot's score is inappropriate however, they do have certain biases. The video they had on that review was just the intro video to the game. I'm not sure much effort was put on the review.

An independent gamer review. He also says negative things about the game, but it's not all bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8xSH1NieuE

As for UE4, I don't think it should be a concern. There are tonne of amazing games coming out using UE4. Gameplay design decisions and execution aren't a limitation of an game engine. So I wouldn't put it on UE4.

If anything, DT looks like it's just hugely unpolished from previous gameplay videos. It's probably a case of using old assets in a new engine and rushing it's development since it's had such a rough history with THQ going belly up.

This is a video of some upcoming UE4 games, Shenmue 3 included.. quite a variety of styles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3xmU0wVW0g

[Yokosuka]

Utterly laughable character should be a pro.

[shengoro86]

It really depends on how much his involvement was during the game. Itagaki hosting Yu Suzuki was either a stunt riding off the Shenmue 3 success or Suzuki was actually heavily involved in the development of Devil's Third. Which could be worrisome.

Suzuki and Itagaki are friends in real life. It could just be because of that.

[Rikitatsu]

Wait, are people assuming Suzuki assisted in Devil's Third development solely because he appeared on a stream? That's a huge jump in conclusions, to put it mildly.

Itagaki is just a fan of Suzuki.

[Zoltor]

I am not sure if Suzuki is officially involved with this game or not, but what worries me is that it's made using the Unreal Engine. Moreover it had a decent 34/40 score from Famitsu in Japan while western media gave it a very low score (Edge 1.5/5 and Gamespot 3/10) ...

This is common, since all a game needs to be in Japan, to be rated high, is have a good story, and "colorful" art, nothing else matters there.

Here, although so called professional review sites are sell/corrupt as hell(where in Japan, I doubt they even have enough time to even turn on the game, nevermind look at the gameplay, they have so many games to review), actual gameplay matters a hell of a lot more, then in Japan.

I don't know if the game sucks or not, but completely different ratings like this, is a normal thing.

[Monkei]

Wait, are people assuming Suzuki assisted in Devil's Third development solely because he appeared on a stream? That's a huge jump in conclusions, to put it mildly.

Seriously. What the hell.

[OL]

Japanese games cater for Japanese.. and us who like Japanese games. I'm not saying Gamespot's score is inappropriate however, they do have certain biases.

Only problem with that reasoning being the fact that Devil's Third was really, really obviously made with western appeal in mind. If it were originally meant to cater to the Japanese crowd, it'd be a far different beast.
Looked like absolute trash from the beginning anyway. I'd make the leap and say Gamespot is probably pretty dead-on about how crappy the game is. But then, I could be biased just because I had next to no interest in it at all. And I'm usually all kinds of interested in Japanese action games.

[Monkei]

39/100 on metacritic.com:

http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/devils-third

Those Famitsu scores seem to be way off and kind of random pretty often, both for japanese and western games. I personally can't take them seriously.

[fittersau]

It really depends on how much his involvement was during the game. Itagaki hosting Yu Suzuki was either a stunt riding off the Shenmue 3 success or Suzuki was actually heavily involved in the development of Devil's Third. Which could be worrisome.

Suzuki and Itagaki are friends in real life. It could just be because of that.

Yep could be that. I might be wrong, but a few months ago I recall seeing his name in the credits in some capacity. There was a twitter post originially which I first saw his name.

So who knows what his involvement was. Looking through the credits of Devil's Third show Yu Suzuki is in fact credited for being a partner in the game. In what capacity is unknown.

https://youtu.be/Y8SNRd_2cSM

Skip to 10:38 to see his name.

[danny]

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[Himuro]

Why worry about this? Yu is just a friend of itagaki's.

If Shenmue III is great, it will get good reviews. Devil's Third, by all accounts, is a bad game and deserves the backlash.

[Yokosuka]

Love that