Former PS4 Indie Exclusive, Rime, Listed for Nintendo Switch Along With Other Platforms

Can't get excited for this, not after what happened. I want it to be good, but I need to see (real) gameplay first.

I am brasilian and checked it. Is not true. Nothing with this name can be found in Brasil MJ form site.

It could be because the game is running on the Unreal Engine 4

This game makes me think of Wind Waker. If only Toon Link would've looked like that.

Plot twist: It was originally coming to the Wii U, but was canceled for the Switch.

In all seriousness though, this is good news.

Not entirely convinced this game exists. Then again, The Last Guardian and FFXV were actually released.

This game looks cool, I hope the rumor is true.

Looks intriguing but would need to see more.

Reminds me a lot of a mash up between Wind Waker and Shadow of the Colossus. Looks great so far!

Looks neat. Part Ico, part Journey, and some of its own stuff going too. Love the animals and the surreal structures.

Big fan of that cartoony art style. Game looks a little overly bright in some areas, but overall looks really good. I wonder what the gameplay will be like?

Looks like Zelda.

With so many indie developers put their faith in Switch, Nintendo should expand the internal storage of Switch. 1 month to go Switch presentation, Nintendo should check up carefully.

@KirbyTheVampire The part where he is climbing the cliff and swims very much seem like gameplay to me, so I'm half-assuming that the cut scenes and gameplay are more or less the same, to make the whole game a seamless experience.

There's also another trailer which seemingly also has mixed parts cut scene and gameplay:

And here is all the footage and gameplay combined with an interview with the developer:

@ThanosReXXX I assumed it was. I'm referring more to how the game as a whole will play, since it's a bit hard to judge from a few seconds of the character climbing/swimming. That second trailer gave me a better idea, though. Seems to be a sort of emotional/symbolic game with some platforming and such mixed in. That's just my take on it from what I've seen, anyway.

Sony going third party confirmed 😂😂

In all seriousness though I'm loving all these games getting announced for Switch!

And for all you interested people, here's two videos explaining the story of what happened between the developer and Sony, which, looking at the date of the videos, was apparently already known months ago:

This is cool. I know it's been in development hell but it has potential and if it ends up being good and I can play it on the Switch, fantastic.

That's neat to know I can keep my options open, since I was really looking forward to it. Unless it continues to take forever in development, though, I'll probably get it for the PS4, anyways.

I loved all the enemies they showed in that video. Made it look super exciting....

More games the better for Switch, but that looks super boring.

@ThanosReXXX Those video thumbnails really want me to click on their videos. Really really really bad. Almost like a starving fisherman, in a way.

...Clickbait. That is the joke...

So that's what it feels like when it's ANOTHER console losing an exclusive and said game comes out for our systems.

Looks like Zelda Breath of Wild mixed with Zelda Windwaker. Might have to check this out.
Hmm "Zelda: Breath of Wind" perhaps?

Thought this looked good at the original reveal, but it's kind of easy to make a great looking trailer out of anything. Will definitely keep an eye on it's progress.

Looks pretty good. I'm still on the fence about what kind of experience it's intending to offer. Looks a bit like it's taking a page out of Journey here, which is a plus, I guess.

But, uh, let's try and utilize the Switch's features, okay? At least give people a good reason to buy this on Switch rather than PS4... Otherwise people that have both consoles will just get it on there instead.

@ThanosReXXX I think that's the entire issue with the game, nobody knows what's going on or whether it's actually a game or not. They could've easily resolved that issue by showing some actual gameplay when they reacquired the rights to the game. They didn't, and until they don't, I can't get excited for this.

I've been excited for this since I first heard about it but have been a little concerned with the lack of updates in the last two years. If this lives up to it's aspirations it is going to be a perfect fit for me!

@CanisWolfred How is it clickbait? The videos explain exactly what I said they do, so it's WYSIWYG.

@Octane What you're looking at in those trailers IS actual gameplay.

It could be telling though that Sony dropped it... Still looking forward to it however as I love the art style...

Great! I read about this game in a magazine a few years ago.

@ThanosReXXX We don't know. Development has been fishy, almost no updates on the same since it was announced. They gave us a trailer, but rumours said that it wasn't actually gameplay. It was simulated to look like gameplay to give an impression of what they were working on. That would explain the lack of updates and the fact that the game kept being delayed. Then Sony pulled back out of it. At this point you'd think that all they had to do is show some of the stuff they've been working on, since they owned the rights to everything anyway. But no, again no updates. Then GameTrust picked up the game and became the new publisher. We were promised more information soon, but we got nothing again. Looks like they parted too and now Grey Box and Six Foot are the new publishers. Promising more information soon.. See where this is going? I don't know what I should believe anymore at this point. Show us a trailer, (actual) gameplay, and if it still looks the same, I can get excited again.

Wind waker X Team Ico
Hopefully the game is seriously developed into a good game.

Oh that game, that would be cool!

@Octane Well, first off, there are two trailers, the second one of which I also posted, and the video with the interview that I also posted explicitly mentions those segments to be gameplay. Personally, I believe it's a little bit of both, because some sections of the trailers look very much like cut scene material.

And I also don't think it looks all that spectacular, so I find it hard to believe that people think this looks too good for it to be gameplay footage.

And I don't believe at all that they "simulated" parts of the footage to make it look like gameplay. That just sounds too ridiculous to be true.

As for how it went with Sony: I posted videos about that too, but it's a rather one-sided story, we never heard anything from the developers themselves, so it's not like we already know the entire story. I'm not going to blindly trust Sony just because they say that this is exactly what happened.

By the way: if it IS true, then Sony are a bunch of dumb-asses, being duped into giving some small-time developer a budget of well over $800.000 without ever having checked who they are or what they are capable of, so in that case I'd still take my hat off for this developer...

@ThanosReXXX - I was just pointing out the thumbnail. Now that Youtube gives me the option to take stupid videos out of my recommendations list, and even reporting offensive content with relative ease, I've been paying a lot more attention to them.

And you know what? I've come to realize that 99.9% of youtube thumbnails are absoluting insulting in one way or another...

@CanisWolfred My apologies, but I'm still not entirely following you. Clickbait sounds negative to me and yet you would want to see the video. In my opinion, if something would look like clickbait, I would definitely NOT click on it, but I guess that's were we differ in approach/opinion.

Either way, I can agree to a point on thumbnails of YouTube videos, although I don't really see how they are insulting. Misleading is something that I would sooner accuse them of.

As for taking videos out of your list, is that a standard function of YouTube now? I'm still using Video Blocker which is available for Firefox, Chrome and Opera.

I use it to instantly block entire channels from ever popping up in searches, recommendations and in columns on the right side of the video that I'm watching.

@ThanosReXXX It is, but I'm installing that thing anyways. Thanks a bunch! It only works when I'm signed in, anyways (which only happens if I checked me email around that time. I don't trust Google enough to stay signed in all the time).

Also, I don't want to watch that video. I said "It wanted me to watch it," as in it was using the cheap techniques to get a rise out of the view before they've even watched the video. If you're gonna make a point that you want others to understand, going out of your way to ensure the viewers already have an opinion of what you're about to say is counterintuitive to the n-th degree.

But again, I've seen worse, and it's gotten to the point where I can't even get mad anymore (unless I get another recommended video where a dog girl is exposing her titties, while the title insinuates that furry waifus are to be discussed therein. Then I might fly off the handle completely). Now I just sit back and wonder what the world would be like if they put that kind of energy towards something astrophysics, carpentry, business management, electro-therapy, or plumbing? I mean, my god, it probably wouldn't have been so hard for me to find movers if some of those guys got out every once in a while - some of them have builds that insinuate that they'd be jacked if they actually moved their bodies more than a few inches at a time!

@CanisWolfred Yeah, overweight couch potatoes being transported by hovering chairs is probably the golden future that awaits future generations...

Just out of curiosity: which of the videos rubbed you the wrong way? I always watch videos before I post them, so I can personally attest to none of them being click bait or idiotic. In general, I only post stuff that is possibly interesting or relevant to the discussion or if it makes a point that I can agree with.

@ThanosReXXX - The second video, obviously. You can't use that much loaded language, and expect the viewers to come in emotionally neutral.

@CanisWolfred Okay... Well, I just see those things as topics discussed in the video and honest questions also discussed, and all of them are, so yeah... in my honest opinion there's nothing wrong with it, but I respect other's opinions, so no offense taken on being interpreted as a possible click bait poster...

@ThanosReXXX - "...Was Rime an elaborate scam?" is not an honest question. It's just provocative language that already takes a judgmental stance before the evidence has been laid out. It's the kind of thing a lawyer would say at the beginning of a televised trial. I don't know what he intended to say, I already know that I don't trust him to present it in a balanced way. If that's not what he intended, then he's an idiot for mimicking the provocative thumbnails and mainstream tabloids, and I have no reason to listen to his lecture like as if he's some kind of expert or something.

...Yeah, I've had a lot of time to think about why I hate everyone on Youtube. That video blocker couldn't have come at a better time.

@CanisWolfred Well, I'm sorry you feel that way, and it is never my intention of evoking these kinds of sentiments when posting videos.

In fact, I specifically post them in the way I do, because when I previously only posted the link, some people actually DID accuse me of posting click bait, because they found out when clicking on the link that they were linked to either a channel or a person that they disliked, so now with the image already there, you will feel less duped. Well, at least: that is my intent.

Maybe it's an age thing as well? I don't know about you, but I'm 46 and I've got WAY better things to do than hating people on YouTube or anywhere else on the internet, so I'm just not all that bothered by the images or what kind of text they use.

And maybe you're right that the guy isn't too smart to use such screaming letters in his thumbnail, but his own intent was probably to stand out in the crowd.

How else would someone notice his video amongst the thousands of others? And even though you don't know me, I can honestly tell you that the video isn't biased at all. He is just someone that wants to see this game happen and as such went to look for the facts surrounding what happened between the developer and Sony and collected all these facts to make the video, and he tells the story in a calm and decent way. There's no accusations, no spectacle, no hate. Just numbers and a brief history of the game's development.

The questions are asked of the viewers, so they must decide whether or not this is an "elaborate scam", based upon the facts he presents in his video.

Well, anyway, don't know what else to make of it other than the above, and repeating that there was no bad intent on my part in posting them. And in the end it's always up to ourselves if we watch, read or listen to something, so there's that as well...

Well, it's pretty damn late over here, so I'm off. Have a good one. Night, that is...

@ThanosReXXX - Are you insinuating that hating Youtube video creators is a waste of time? How else are they supposed to know that they're doing a terrible job, and should go back to flipping burgers like normal, honest human being? And that way, my Wendy's will be properly staffed, and I'll never again have to wait 40 minutes for a Double Quarter-Pounder and a Milkshake.

@CanisWolfred I'm not insinuating anything, just wondering how you've come to feel like that. No offense, but from these past few comments, you come across as quite negative and cagey and personally, I'd say that something like a YouTube video or some numbskull posting videos on YouTube isn't really worth my time and energy. I just skip them or block them.

Once again: I had no bad intentions with posting them here and the same goes for my discussion with you. If I did, I also wouldn't have pointed out the browser add-on to you.

@ThanosReXXX - That last one was a joke. How did not get that? No offense, but you've been taking this entire conversation way too seriously. This entire thing started as a dry joke, though I was in abysmal mood yesterday (and I got 4 other threads to prove it, 2 of which are on another website), so at least half of what I said before was random spite. Sorry 'bout that, I just didn't know how to react when someone took it seriously, so I vented.

@CanisWolfred I was going to add: "and if you were just trolling/joking, then well played, you fooled me" but I thought better of it. When I joke around on here, I add a smiley to make that perfectly clear.

What a lot of people seem to forget is that just text, no matter how obvious to the writer, can always be interpreted in multiple ways, and as such, reactions to it can vary wildly. It makes it somewhat more logical how conversations can derail so fast sometimes when none of either parties means anything bad.

Sometimes I just think I'm getting too old for all this nonsense. And other times, my skin is a bit thicker and I'm in a better mood.

Guess we both weren't in optimal form yesterday...

But no offense taken, we all have to vent sometimes, and I can take it. You did really have me wondering there for a while, though...

I thought about adding something to make it more obvious, but I just don't like the new smileys we've had since the redesign. They're weird looking. Granted, I've looked online for replacements, and...they're far from the worst that they could've chosen, but that still doesn't mean I like the look of 'em.