The Alliance Alive and The Legend of Legacy studio FuRyu is working on a new RPG for Nintendo Switch, and there are some pretty big names involved with its development.
Described as a 'retro-inspired' RPG, Work x Work places you in role of a hero's dog who has to guide visitors around a dungeon-filled theme park. Successfully guiding visitors through each dungeon allows you to earn "crowds", which can then be used to buy weapons and other items.
Core development is being handled by Japanese studio Netchubiyori and is around 75 percent complete, but it's the other names attached to the project that are of most interest. The staff includes Mother 3 director Nobuyuki Inoue, Mother 3 artist Nobuhiro Imagawa and Shin Megami Tensei composer Tsukasa Masuko. Suzuka Yamamoto and Takuya Yamanaka, both of whom were involved with recent best-seller The Caligula Effect, are directing and producing respectively, while Takahiro Yamane serves as the development director.
According to an interview in Famitsu, Work x Work began life as a smartphone title before moving to Switch as it grew in scale. It is scheduled for launch on September 27th in Japan, costing 4,980 yen.
[source nintendoeverything.com]
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Not sure what to make of this one. The premise sounds interesting, but the fact it began as a smartphone title gives me pause. It'll be something to keep an eye on at any rate.
The concept is interesting and the team behind has done amazing things in the past.
Hopefully they'll show us some gameplay soon!
very interesting, looking forward for more info soon!
@TossedLlama Smiles and tears, eh?
The concept behind this sound interesting ,but for not it will be in my watch list
Get all those talented ppl together to make Mother 4.
And if Itoi doesn't want to be involved fine by me . I am sure there are many talented writers/directors inside Nintendo
This sounds super weird, but guess that's par for the course with people who worked on a mother game lol.
"C'mon Reggie, give us Mother 3!"
Hopefully we see this at E3 then.
Positives: Mother 3 developers, interesting concept
Negatives: No western release confirmed, started as a smartphone game.
Hmm, was hoping for something more along the lines of alliance alive but I'll keep an open mind.
@TossedLlama People hoping for Mother 3 @ E3:
So, you got your head handed to you, huh?
@TossedLlama Whoops, I quoted that wrong. Oh well.
@TossedLlama When you die in Earthbound.
"Ness! It looks like you got your head handed to you."
That's what I meant.
This kind of sounds like a game that is one big escort mission...
PleaseGodNo!
@TossedLlama
the thing is, people have a tendency to cry over this game rather they release it or not.
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