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I feel like you have to be really desperate for a JRPG to buy a Kemco game. They all look SO generic.

Lost me at Kemco

Looks very final fantasy-esque. But to be honest it just makes me want to play either FF6 or Chrono Trigger.

Why do Kemco pump out millions of jrpgs lol

I am glad kemco started the video with their name, saved me having to watch any more. I would also urge games journalists to mention who made the game at the start. Kemco is an auto pass for many players.

Im always surprised at how much attention these kemco releases get. they all look the same and never score very highly.

@TechaNinja perhaps pumping out endless garbage makes more profit than taking the time to make one or two good games?
It's really a disservice to everybody involved though. Developers and players alike.

Seems everyone on nintendolife knows better than to give any time or money to kemco. They must be making money off kids on steam or mobile that don't know any better... Yet.

I don't have enough time in the day to play all of the good JRPG's releasing nowadays. I don't see a reason to buy something that feels like it was thrown together in a day on RPGmaker.

@konbinilife "Seems everyone on nintendolife knows better than to give any time or money to kemco"

Except for someone who has beaten one of their "generic RPGs" on NES and lived to tell the tale? One of my fonder NES memories, too. As for money... Chronus Arc on 3DS (with a potential double-dip on Switch) and a batch of Android ports from HB, so yeah. 😏

JRPGs have been made en masse since before RPG Maker and Steam ever existed. And it's not quality holding people off from Kemco's offerings as much as competition backlogs. If being "generic" was a real sin, most of Fiction would have withered out centuries ago rather than spawn entire industries.

Only played one of games but it was alright.

These Kemco RPGs are depressing. I remember when they actually used to make games that clearly had a budget, even they weren’t too great.

Another Dragon View would be sweet...

$7 on iPhone and the touch works fine for it.

For $14 - Try out Cosmic Star Heroine on Switch. One of the last retro rRPGs I played before I got sick of them.

Played it on PS4... Should be even better on the Switch on the GO.

@nhSnork may I ask what nes title it was? In those days basically nothing felt generic, it was a new and exciting world!
Kemco probably isn't the same as it was 30 years ago. For example, we all know Natsume's recent Harvest Moon titles have taken a dive.
I've played a couple of recent titles like Asdivine Hearts and some other that were very samey. You can't deny when they release 14 games that look the same in a short period, people are going to assume the worst...

For once this look kinda interesting, maybe the first Kemco RPG I try out.

@LunarFlame17 they are kinda same... just different story... but everything almost same. If they would release a bit less games people would be more excited... we see a new release and it's them again... it's like RPG maker game made game. But hey each his own

I would just point out to everyone who tunes out at seeing Kemco that some of their games are actually decent (for budget releases). There's this idea that Kemco is dropping a game a month, so there's no quality. The fact that many lose here is that they PUBLISH. They have a number of studios making their games, kind kf like how Activision runs Call of Duty every year by cycling three studios. Kemco has an in-house team, Exe-Create, Hit-Point, Matured, Rideon, WorldWide, and Chocoarts. There was a time when all their games felt like your college buddy's 2002 RPG Maker project, most releases were from the in house team or Worldwide Software, and the localization read like it was run through Google translate. That's why they have such a crap reputation.

I mean, I'm not saying everything's high quality. But as they've gotten more successful, they've worked better with western publishers and had improved localization. Tech has gotten better. They've dabbled in subgenres. They have a couple of serviceable SRPGs and ARPGs, for example.

I dunno, just watch a trailer and then make a decision. Just thinking "its Kemco" isn't correct, since there are a frw different studios of differing levels of skill.

@Kisame83 True that, but the experiences we had before are not taking it away. And indeed if you like what you see go for it!

Kemco is a hard pass. Tons of better jrpgs out there than to be playing shovelware

Aaaaand... it's Kemco. It may be several devs that Kemco is publishing for, but they all must be using the same tools as there are much better RPG options out there. If it suits you, no worries, but I'm good.

@nhSnork all I know from kemco are their new games. Looking into them now they feel like rpg maker spam even if they're still a step up.

I think it looks good and like it stands out from the rest of the kemco rpgs. I think I’ll give it a shot sometime after the release.

@konbinilife Legend of the Ghost Lion. Gameplay-wise, gleefully Dragon Quest-esque, but standing on its own fancy plot - and in those days, I suppose, still relatively uncommon as a game with a female protagonist. That said, I discovered and beat it during my emulation-focused days, in times when I had already experienced a fair share of more impressive stuff in and outside the genre. It still resonated enough with me. Unlike, ironically, Saga 3 (aka FFL3 in the west back then), a game from the very acclaimed Squaresoft and yet the only JRPG to date that I ultimately didn't like.

Like Square Enix of today, Kemco is a publisher as much as - or even more than - a developer, so that's where you get 14 similar games in a row - but perceived "sameness" of such games didn't "befall" them yesterday and it certainly wasn't limited to them 30 years ago either. Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy made enough of a following and parroting that it became a genre; bigger cones proceeded to push the envelopes and budgets of this genre, but Kemco has tapped into the nostalgia wave for the SNES vibes and has been comfortably saturating this market niche since. And once again, it's not remotely them alone - they just have funds to publish a lot of stuff from various folks.

As for Harvest Moon, it's been a LITERALLY different series for years now - when the developers' parent company changed the western publisher, Natsume was left with nothing but the title ownership - they just decided they didn't want to let it gather dust. While the new games may not be on par with the veteran subgenre codifier that once went by this name westside, their existence and sales is but another welcome proof that said subgenre - and thus, BokuMono/HM legacy and industry impact - lives on.

(Note concerning sales: no, the oft-attempted "people fooled into the familiar brand name" excuse isn't a good counterargument against those. We're living in the Information Age, and if a motivated Harvest Moon follower fails to keep tabs on something as notable as the franchise's name change, there are inevitable questions to the degree of their motivation and following)

@tendonerd I can't help wondering how many folks saying "RPG Maker spam" have even experienced such spam in for real - or correctly identified one, for that matter, since RPG Maker hardly invented the wheel with most of its assets and toolsets either. It's just a licensed amalgamation of genre development history - in its more beginner/amateur friendly aspects - whose products can be greenlit for independent distribution akin to how virtual Vocaloid folks can be used for some projects.

Wishlisted! ...on Steam b/c I don't own a Switch.

Looks great and far better than their usual generic stuff.

@nhSnork as someone who dig for a decade in rpg maker forums for a gem among the coal I feel qualified to know what feels or looks like rpg maker spam.

6 hours and I'm loving this game. Best Kemco game so far. This game is better than Radiant Historia. Chrono Trigger has found his successor.