The Silver Falls series is incredibly unique among new releases nowadays. Australian developer Jerrel Dulay of Sungrand Studios wants to release his games on the 3DS and Wii U eShops, even though both storefronts are closing this year. Unfortunately, Dulay has hit an issue with one of his Wii U-bound games — Silver Falls - White Inside Its Umbra.
White Inside Its Umbra is a unique horror game that will utilise the Wii Remote, the GamePad, and the Wii Balance Board as control options, and these multiple control options paired with the horror aspect have led to Nintendo rejecting the game due to it being "too scary".
In a video posted to Sungrand Studios' YouTube channel, Dulay stated that the game "should be selling now", but isn't as Nintendo has turned the game down, meaning Dulay will likely have to make the game less scary because of potential unsafe manoeuvers being performed if players get spooked. The developer further clarified on Twitter that he would need to "work it out" with the Big N as the company is concerned about the horror aspect paired with the Balance Board.
In the meantime, Dulay has been working on fixes for other games in his extensive series. 3DS title Silver Falls - 3 Stars Down will be getting a patch later this year to rehaul all of the game's textures and visuals, increase the framerate, and fix a few of the crashes.
You can watch the full video below from Dulay where he talks about his frustrations with the delays, as well as the other fixes he's working on for his games.
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Not as scary as Nintendo shutting down the eshop.
Oh the horror!
Just let them release it, those of us that still use our Wii U's are brave enough to handle it.
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That sounds more like Nintendo doesn't want to turn the Wii Balance Board into a liability.
Such a shame since I'd be curious to see how something unique as that would've been.
Even just using the wiimote to point or the joycon like in switch sports could be considered dangerous though - many TVs have suffered an ufortunate fate and I imagine people have been hit too.
This is absolutely shameful given the tripe they allow on the Switch eShop. So you can have AAA Clock and Boob JPEG: The Game but this is being rejected for being ‘too scary’.
@nessisonett It's "too scary" because people can hurt themselves by for instance falling off the Balance board or dropping a controller. Honestly correct call from Nintendo to want to limit that.
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@mariomaster96 Yeah, that's not the case here.
@sanderev It's a joke?!
@nessisonett ‘too scary’ is the clickbait headline and there’s no way Nintendo would respond with that. It’s clearly on the grounds of health and safety.
Having said that though, anyone else get the impression that too many devs are trying to be quirky/different for the sake of it? Releasing a horror game on the Wii U in 2022 which utilises the Balance Board… I mean, how did we get here?
Eh, can't blame Nintendo for this.
If you're playing this on the Wii Balance Board, there's a risk that you'll be so scared at a part of the game that you spill a water bottle next to you, then you slip the water, your back feels in pain, and you get taken to the hospital and leave your game running which risks a house fire, then when your doctor comes back, he comes back and tells you that you have cancer.
I know that this will happen because it happens to me every time I play We Ski.
I almost think we should thank Nintendo for this.
Lol you can literally fall off the Balance board playing Wii Fit...
What happened to putting a disclaimer at the beginning and then the onus is on whoever falls down.
Yeah, I don't believe you.
With all the stuff that gets in the Eshop? Come on.
@mariomaster96 that's the real horror
@LittleGhost Exactly, you can injure yourself playing basically anything. That’s what disclaimers are for.
@PessitheMystic seriously. Who in they right mind tries to release a game on a failed console? There's literally no profit there.
Glad no one ever got hurt using a Wiimote...
Reminds me of a denied Monty Python sketch with how Nintendo doesn’t want the user base to hurt themselves or their equipment.
The story goes that the Python’s were going to film a typical scene consisting of a lot of dialogue, however as the characters talked they’d gradually have the volume of the show lower. Ideally the viewer would constantly get up to turn the volume knob louder on the tv (the style at the time) and the sketch would continue until most TVs would be close to max volume. Then they’d set off an explosion with the decibel levels returned to normal. Lol.
Nintendo's been oddly peculiar about which controllers they allowed games to associate with.
I remember Wiiware developers saying they weren't allowed to support the DK bongos, even if they wanted to, and it made sense for the games in question. :-/
It's likely all about sending the right/wrong message in regards to the Wii brand. But not allowing a spooky game to use the balance board? At this point? That's getting silly.
I don't know what Nintendo said, but here's why what they said is completely wrong.
I don't believe it, there is surely another Reason, seems just to get Attention.
I doubt it's because it's too scary. He's probably not following Nintendo's guidelines for the balance board - like the game asking people to jump off it or something.
@Azuris
What possible reason would this guy have to lie? He's trying to sell a ge on a console that had had direct credit card paents disabled in all regions. At this point he needs honesty and transparency for any hope of success.
lol dude's made a game for the Wii U, he was setting himself up for disappointment.
Actually, it makes they requested the developer to make changes. People could get hurt by falling off the Balance Board.
Yup, this day in age, someone would run and sue nintendo because they fell off the balance board...remember the lawsuit from a parent that had Wii Fit? They tried to sue nintendo because their child lost weight from it!!! LOL, people will sue for anything! Alas, I'm surprised virtual reality doesn't have more lawsuits...imagine wearing a VR headset and crashing out a window or falling into the tv! Imagine having the NES come out now with the zapper gun...someone would sue because it's a gun! Other than that, I'm not sure why the developer is releasing this on the Wii U, when the fanbase is mainly on Switch now, unless it's coming out on all. It's nice to see the Wii U get a new game, but still, why bother...does anyone know if it's coming out on Switch or the other consoles? I may just have not have read that part of the article.
@HotGoomba You deserve an award for that explanation
Pretty sure it got turn down due to the Wii U eShop closure and not about that other thing. Just port it to Switch and then make a balance board accessory for it, that way if gamers got hurt the guy will be responsible for it instead of Nintendo.
Potential unsafe maneuvers because of the balance board? This is bs straight out of early the 1990s Nintendo playbook, maybe worse and I have a hard time believing it's real. The company should just be honest and admit it's because the Wii U Eshop is closing down. At least I want that to be the real reason because if the 'too scary' nonsense is true, this puts Nintendo right there with Sony and MS as completely neutering this industry which already doesn't have enough M-rated games with an edge to them anymore. Everything is 'politically correct' toned down garbage.
Damn, the developers are going to miss out on the 1000 people who would have purchased this game.
That is a serious number, i doubt this game would have sold more than 1000 copies.
Goodness, I'd hate to hear what he sounds like when he IS complaining.
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