Why didn't Rayman take off in Japan? He's considered a literal who in the East
Why didn't Rayman take off in Japan? He's considered a literal who in the East
Gabriel King
Camden Johnson
>Purple is seen as the color of death
Huh, that’s why he’s not in any mainline games or received his own title.
Colton Phillips
Did they do that to fuck with the Chinese where purple essentially means Godhood/Divinity?
Daniel Sullivan
Did you know if you told the average Japanese person that the color of death is purple they'd laugh at you?
Angel Gray
>made in Europe in the 90s
That's why.
Thomas Sanchez
Tons of characters had their designs changed in the JP version.
Jayden Evans
Crash Bandicoot was from the 90ies too, but it managed to have stronger legs in Japan due to a number of extra marketing features. Game cover-art reworked for their market, a Crash Bandicoot theme song with a related music video (unlockable in JP Crash 2 through a cheat code as well), some printed works...
Nolan Cox
>Ugly design, impossible to make merchandise
>First game wasn't translated outside the intro
>His body is purple, which is the color of dead
>Rayman 2 was only released on Dreamcast and PS2, compared to the West where it was ported to every console
>Didn't get Rayman Arena, Rayman 3 and all the handheld games
>Origins and Legends sold like shit due to no marketing and the series being dead for over a decade for the Nips
Rayman was doomed from the start
Caleb Taylor
yeah its just oversensitive PR not some crazy ancient eastern nippon superstition like it's made out to be. most ppl dgaf, they know its a superstition but it's not the end of the world. Depends on which generation tho.
Carter Stewart
>Purple is the color of death
Makes sense, Spyro flopped in Japan too.
Brody Jenkins
He's not really big anywhere honestly. He's like a C-list
Michael Morris
>Japan censors the girl rather than the other way around
Wasn't expecting that.
Bentley Reyes
That sounds about right to me. Rayman got cucked out of his series by Rabbids.
Carter Evans
Rabbids are basically proto-Minions.
Chase Baker
Japanese have shit taste in videogames
Prove me wrong unironically
Bentley Green
Meanwhile I'm colourblind and up until this point thought Rayman's torso was nightsky blue.
Leo White
Rayman has outsold stuff like Castlevania, Spyro, Ratchet & Clank, Dark Souls, Devil May Cry, Jak etc...
Sebastian Phillips
Ly is a nightmare, but what's changed the guardian of the Cave of Bad Dreams? Is the eye changed to appear more round or is he yellow? I can't tell.
Xavier Davis
keeping the thread theme in mind you can see the red hat
Henry Perez
I honestly could not, because I am
Josiah Davis
He’s too good for japan
Daniel Butler
>rayman
>bad design
Get better taste
Jeremiah Miller
"Has" being the key word.
Benjamin Allen
Forgot one more
Joshua Davis
Has is present time dumbfuck, HAD is the past sentence, Rayman is still above them.
American education folks.
Jonathan Cox
>He's considered a literal who in the East
Same goes for the west.
Easton Martinez
>Crash Bandicoot was from the 90ies too, but it managed to have stronger legs in Japan
Rayman doesn't have legs though
Ryan Evans
I can hear them going UGUUUU~
Connor Jackson
ZOOM
Jaxson Turner
Zoom zoom
Liam Nguyen
not at all
Noah Kelly
You don't understand user. In today's world, the easier it is to make a stuffed toy out of something, the better designed it is.
This is why Pokemon makes billions of dollars. Not because of the games, but because of incredibly cheap and easy to produce merchandise.
Levi Mitchell
Rayman’s design is fucking great who gives a fuck about plush toys