After teasing its fanbase earlier this week on April Fool's Day, it appears PlatinumGames really does have one more surprise lined up. Out of nowhere, a 'bonus stage' has suddenly appeared on its promotional website. As you can see above, it remains a mystery and is simply dated 2020, so we can't even say when exactly it will be revealed this year.
To quickly recap - so far, this special webpage has announced The Wonderful 101: Remastered, revealed Project G.G. – the powerful climax to the Hideki Kamiya superhero trilogy, confirmed there'll be a new Tokyo Studio, and unveiled the company's next-generation game engine. Most recently was the April Fool's movie.
Just yesterday, Hideki even explained how he just wanted to cheer people up during these trouble times with a funny joke involving Hamster Corporation and hoped everyone had a good laugh. Sadly, it seemed to disappoint the fan base more than anything. At least now there's something to anticipate. The question is, what could it be? Take a guess down below.
[source four.platinumgames.com]
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Lost interest after the April's Fools farce. Be great if it was something worth waiting for but, we'll see.
Sounds like damage control.
I'm ready to sh*t my pants laughing again.
It'd be the best thing ever if the bonus announcement was just another joke. People would get so salty.
If they wanted to put out a peace offering, but something not too massive, they could reveal Bayonetta 3’s character model/costume.
@KitsuneNight you don't do an update to the website just like that overnight... it was all planned.
I was honestly expecting something extra.... I know Platinum is way way better than that and they're known to fool from time to time.
I am so fed up with this tossycock.
First of all I despise teaser-advertising, and Platinum are only bloody well teasing their sodding teasers!
"Oh, we're going to announce four tidbits of info, four will be the number of tidbits, four."
"What about the...?"
"...FIVE! Five will be the number of tidbits, no more, no less!"
I wish all devs would clamp up until they've actually got anything of substance to show. No teasers, no teaser-teasers, no mysterious announcements, no puzzles.
Oh how I hate this.
Because my lizard brain want to know! It wants to know!
"Ooooh, what is your secret? Hm? Tell us! Tell us!"
And I will not be manipulated like this, I refuse.
-but seriously, tell me your secret, though.
Bayonetta 3 cancelled! X x x x what a bonus stage that would be ouch! X x x
@fafonio
Then it's an continuation of their "hilarious joke ".
I love Platinum Games, I really do. But I think we're all in danger of hearing a little too much from them at the moment... if indeed that point hasn't already been reached.
@KitsuneNight or maybe you need to chill.... It's not like the Aprils Fool joke killed your kid.
Maybe the next announcement is worth the wait.
No no no Mr Kamiya, April Fools Day has finished.
Poor guy is taking this fooling business far too seriously.
Not going to be the announcement but I'd still really like a switch version of Vanquish
again if it's not Bayonetta 3 not interested
@tanaka2687 sounds like u are still interested
@Steel76 it’s been more like 2 years..standard stuff here
I love that platinum does this. It’s good indicator that they are thriving and having fun. Everyone just relax. Highly doubt you’ll skip a big game because you didn’t like an April fools joke
Moral of the he story: tease an April fool's prank on the day, not ahead of time... otherwise it will just (at best) confuse people
They are just starting a long con for next years April Fools. I am soured to their whole secret reveal nonsense.
I’d really love an Astral Chain 2 logo or a Capcom collab + Viewtiful Joe or Okami sequel announcement. I’d be happy for a Bayonetta 3 release date and teaser. I’d be good with a Viewtiful Joe 1&2 remaster or DLC announcement.
But honestly, I’m good either way. Excited to dig into the Wonderful 101 remaster this month!
I still can't believe how SALTY people were over a joke. LMAO
Don't take yourselves so seriously. (especially over a VIDEO GAME announcement)
You'll have more fun.
Well they should have all eyes on them after the April Fool’s joke. Make good use of it!
At this point I just want them to shut up already.
@Impaler-D
+1 to your comment
The day of jokes is over, then everyone should be calm now; In addition, Platinum Games has developed great games, they have done it with a lot of quality, and just for a "joke" and many people took it very seriously and negatively, not even a joke is allowed here...
"insert fun here is not allowed.jpg"
oh well ...
Just to wait when that announcement will really be, the good thing is that it is for this year. ^. ^
More desappointing caming. Will be a new shoe of Kamyia or pants. Maybe a new fish to his aquarium.
This whole Platinum 4 campaign has been so stupid and incredibly underwhelming. And the April Fool's joke was even more stupid. I'm honestly tired of hearing about any of it.
I figured they had something else up their sleeve. I won't hazard a guess right now; I'm one who keeps their expectations in check. XD
...And people are still salty over that April Fool's prank? Good grief, it was a laugh. You can't seriously tell me the announced announcement date wasn't suspect? 🤨
imagine this piece of sh*t company focused on making new AAA games instead of all the other sh*t they've been doing?
Project GG still has no title and will be out in 2022 at best. Wonderful 101 is not AAA and Bayonetta 3 is literally a PNG logo...
Platinum wtf are you doing?
@SakuraHaruka Platinum isn't that great though. You'd have to be a huge fan of Bayonetta and Wonderful 101 in order to think that Platinum Games is even in the top 10 lmao.
If their games were as great as hipsters say they are then why don't they sell well? These talentless hacks were given one of the greatest IPs of all time, Star Fox, and did a lousy job with it. Now they're begging people for money. Why would I want to buy a port of a bad game like Wonderful 101 when I could be buying an amazing first party exclusive instead?
@BenAV people need to take a joke and not get too salty over it reason why never trust anything on april 1st.
The only thing that could possibly make up for all that stupidity would be a Nier: Automata sequel, with a Switch port of the original as well.
Otherwise I don’t want to talk about it.
@glorymade
My point is not to say that Platinum games is the "greatness of greatness", my point is that, despite not being perfect, they have developed games that, come on, have attacked Astral Chains just because it is exclusive to the Switch, however They have also made mistakes, as everyone can. However, something like a "vile" joke, a **** joke, and almost everyone lost their mind and good sense, despite the fact that this announcement was already foretold that it could be a joke, (April 1st , APRIL 1st , seriously nobody remembers and prepares this date "every" year?), And the worst thing is that now they treat Platinum games as if they were criminals, even when they are preparing something that could be great, but just by watching the Comments, not only here, in many places, seriously, is that correct? Tell me, is that a good attitude on our part?
But well...
Ah, and by the way, I'm not that much of a Platinum games fan.
@Crockin I only came here to see the crying. Wasn't disappointed.
I have no reason to trust that this is actually true.
People are really taking this April fools business way to seriously. They're just coming across as a bit bitter.
I’m sure they are aware that people want to see Bayonetta 3, so that would be great if got some info on that.
@Wargoose - Seems that way.
Kinda figured they'd do this; there was always the chance the April Fools joke wouldn't land with a lot of people, so they probably had this as a backup just in case (though given it's called a bonus tier I imagine it was probably going to be announced even if it did work).
Hideki Kamiya thinks he’s hilarious but he’s the biggest PR liability for that company. Sometimes, the less said, the better.
Probably another non-announcement like the last two. Starting with W101 and the new Kaiju game set the bar far too high clearly.
@Kreko The issue was that they hyped up the announcement for over a month only for it to be fake, and picked a name to compare it to the Capcom Five (which the same people worked on). Why claim four announcements when there were only two? If this had been standalone it'd have been fine (not funny, but fine) but the context of causing disappointment after several months of getting hopes up was the issue.
@Kreko it doesn't matter whether or not they planned it or not. What matters here is what happened, not their intent.
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