Why did Ape Escape die?
spinoff slop
>>741835519Unironically this. There was a shotgun variety of spinoffs and marketing didn't know what to do with it all. Some titles got overhyped and subsequently, heavily panned in the west - which resulted in closing the series off for anyone outside of Japan and from that point it just sort of spiraled. Funni tech demo monke game is cool now and again but it wasn't something that was going to drag people across a variety of genres. The low quality of the localizations didn't help in the west either.
The games aren't really all that good.
I would almost think they did as much as they could with that series. If they did make a new one i would wish it would be like Astrobot they tried doing something different with the 4th and 5th and then decided Fuck you westerners and never released shit besides a party game on the psp
Because Sony stopped really putting effort into it and didnt really add much to the formula game by game. The gadgets barely change and AE1s plot is still the most coherent and solid just because of the angle where Spike has to save his friend Jake.They also carelessly tossed away the PSX vibe of things where games appeared dark and resembling realistic places where as the newer ones has wacky shit all over the place like treadmills and other pops like presents laying around.
Specter was too hot for general audiences
>>741835197Wish I knew. Fucking loved Ape Escape 1. Would always go to Wabi Sabi Wall because I loved the song.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItDK9TY7358
Ape Escape 2 and 3 were awful
>>741837405I never played them, but the first game was awesome. That perfect ps1/N64 type game that was cartoony but also slightly dark that pretty much is dead now and I guess only worked in that era
>>741837405Ape Escape 2 was kind of missing any sort of vibe. It didn't play much differently or expand on the environment variety so it comes off as a bit sterile and contractual. 3 kept the more silly cartoon style, but really wasn't so bad. They advanced it a bit mechanically with transformations and a cute girl protagonist feels like something that should've been there from the start.
>>741835197Because Sayaka caught the apes real good last time
>>741835197it was too redpilled. so much dark humor
>>741835197>>741836042>>741836438WTF is that blue thing in the top left screenshot of AE1's back cover?Never saw it in the game and have wondered since I was a kid.
>>741835197The apes finally escaped.
>>741837953Looks like misplaced particle effect for catching a monkey, maybe from an alpha version
>>74183519799.9999% of people being complete fucking faggots happened
>>741835197Not every game franchise needs endless sequels and reboots. Back in the day people would make a game, see how far they could take the concept with a sequel or two, then move on to the next project.
>>741835519>>741836042Part of the problem is that the series with the ongoing plot that they cared about... wasn't 2 and 3. It WAS those "spinoffs". A truly stupid situation where they were trying to be in that same cross-media franchise segment as, like, Battle Network and Medarot.
>>741837405easily the biggest drop-off in music quality I've ever heard in a sequel. 1 had one of the best soundtracks of its era, easy. 2 was dogshit kiddo crap, some of the tunes sounded like they were ripped straight from a toddler program
>>7418421163 had a decent soundtrack again. soichi terada did the soundtracks for both 1 and 3. 2 was done by koji hayama.
>>741840198Based
>>741838417Yeah. Weird it looked so different tho
>>7418458573 sounded like kiddie music too lmao
>>741850184Define "kiddie" music.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WJ9aI1StXs
>>741841216In the current era where gaming lacks these type of games in general we absolutely could use a revival.It's also a series that could be pretty much endlessly expanded upon with different gadgets and monkeys
To me it's kinda weird that the apes never caught on like rabbids, or minions did despite having lots of the same qualities.Then again Sony was not the best at marketing their titles back then.
>>7418374052 is kinda ass but 3 adds enough good new stuff that I think it's about on par if not just slightly worse than 1.
>why did [sony franchise that wasn't 3rd person story slop] diesony are self sabotaging retards
>>741835197The moment they didn't use Terada for the ost so right at 2 but managed to save themself at 3, only end it at >>741835519 like anon said.
>>741835197Ape Escape probably only had mild success in the west with the first game, and nips probably stopped buying console games all together. Sony also largely abandoned anything that didn't appeal to dudebros by the middle of the PS4's lifetime. Pretty much all of their western platformers except for Ratchet and Clank got dropped like a rock.
