>>738953604
You're onto something.
I had a good time with the "not licensed, but public domain story" Ebeneezer Scrooge Metroidvania set as a sequel to A Christmas Carol. That was like a tenner on sale around christmas and I had a good time with it.

You say "a christmas carol vidya gaem" and people do not think "metroidvania" (90% castlevania desu) but that's the magic of it

low budget, so you're not risking as much money. smaller dev team, you're not spending 6 months just coordinating all seven of your teams and working with a whole extra outsourced team in latveria. Honestly the problem with most AAA games today is they spend SO much money on budget and then marketing that even if the game makes a hundred mil it's lost money.

also, limitations breed creativity and the licensed IP will come with limitations AND a bunch of stuff to use. You're making a Star Vs The Forces of Evil third person over the shoulder shooter with cartoony physics? Well now you have a bunch of her spells to use as attacks, AND you have a bunch of characters to use, AND you have places you know you cannot go with the plot and writing, so you know what avenues are open and can commit to those more quickly.

Yeah. OP, you are onto something with this.

Now pitch me your dream stupid game in this type.

>>738953604
the 5th and 6th gen were so good for this, I don't know what went wrong

i never tried that regular show game for 3ds

This all started because they wanted to get a comicbook.

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>>738954092
>Now pitch me your dream stupid game in this type.
Alright

I want a Yakuza-like Regular show game where both Mordecai and Rigby go around punching dudes and learning new death-kwon-do move along the way.
The plot would be pretty simple, their master gets attack at the dojo by a rival school and trough an intense battle his notebook containing all his moves explodes and various people get a hold of the moves so the duo needs to go around collecting the move and fighting evil niggas while weird cosmic shit happens as usual. Some of the moves also land with the rest of the park crew and you need to fight them too for whatever reason.
You control mostly mordecai while rigby does whatever during combat but you can call him to do special moves and finishers.
You can also goa round and visit all the dumb places and characters the show has and do side mission to unlock new items, moves, finishers and costumes. You could also unlock the park car for fast travel.

>>738954167
those games were usually made on the cheap. everything skyrocketed price wise including licenses. which is why licensed games are usually all mobile now.