What happened to Japanese indie games? Originally you had stuff like Touhou, Cave Story and La-Mulana which gained a cult following. Then you had that period where high profile Japanese developers who claimed to be the father of a series (Keiji Inafune, Koji Igarashi) got fired and resorted to begging on kickstarter to fund their spiritual successors. Aside from those, you barely hear about anything.
>>744660626the obvious answer: they have all moved onto to smartphone games. even their coomer devs.
I know nal doesn't do his comiket trailer compilations anymore but comiket still happens twice a year.
>>744660810Nah I don't believe it.
>>744660626They're not intended for your gaijin eyes.
>>744660626games got easier to make, more people are making indie games, small jap devs without marketing have to compete with little timmy is garage busting out generic slop to his 2 million followers on xitter and the other 500 games being released on PC dailyMarket is too competitive now for these types of games. Get lucky with friendslop or luck into a massive social media following outside of japan.
>>744660626>What happened to Japanese indie gamesI stopped discussing them on /v/ because people here are mentally disabled and can't play anything interesting
it was mostly amateurish games that never get translated and stayed in the japanese indie microcosm but it is changing fast.have a look at bitsummit if you want to explore that communityhttps://bitsummit.org/en/about-2/and the indie freaks tweeter: https://x.com/Indie_FreaksJP(many japanese indie devs are girls, please don't harass them!)
replaced by taiwanese indie gamesalso this >>744660810
>>744660626They're japan only
>>744660626They're still around, you just don't know where to look.
>>744660626Why you don't hear about them1. Normalfags have been programmed to rebel against certain things Japs like, such as attractive female characters.2. Websites like /v/ where you used to hear about 2hu and stuff have been overrun by normalfags who would rather hate watch triple A games than spread the good word about real vidya.3. Japanese marketplaces have been oppressed by the west with Visa and Mastercard censoring their ability to sell games.4. Many new indie games requiring a more in depth translation than the likes of 2hu or Cave Story to enjoy.
>>744660626pretty sure a lot of shit still gets released at comiket
if you are on Steam, be sure to enable Japanese in the language preferences or you will not able to find non-english games like this one https://store.steampowered.com/app/1100140/
>>744662802Did the voices in your head tell you this?
>>744663920Kill yourself.
>>744660626Astlibra
>>744660626Meccha chameleon literally came out last month
>>744663920No, God told me.
I wonder how the knightmare labyrinth remake is coming. Its been a few years.
>>744661678Shut the fuck up you spic pedofaggot and kill yourself
>>744660626La-Mulana in specific seems like such a miracle.Someone actually went through the trouble of creating a HUGE puzzle platformer like no other ever, entirely in MSX graphics.The more I think about it, the more absurd it seems.
>>744665107It is, but its not like crazy one shot wonders like la mulana have stopped happening. The only thing about la mulana that really makes it crazy is that it managed to achieve some mainstream success.
>>744664936Circumsized dicklet moment
>>744660626Most Japanese “indie games” are visual novels.
>>744660626Tfw no La-mulana 3
>>744664936You're exactly the type of person I want to discuss japanese indie loli molesting simulators with, you've convinced me, I will now discuss video games on /v/ since you're here
>>744661678>Avatarfaggot calling anyone mentally disabledGiven how you've already admitted plenty of times that you're a porn addict social reject one would think you'd have a shred of dignity, but no
>>744667142Tell me your favorite loli imouto molestation games
>>744667472Low Rise
>>744660626Still out there, but you have so many games releasing every month that Japanese stuff only gets attention if social media favors it.
>>744660626Whats the best way to play la mulana
>>744666661La-Mulana in particular combines platforming, exploration and puzzles in a way that pretty much no other game does. There are countless Metroidvanias on the market, but none of them require you to truly understand the game world in the way the La-Mulana does. It's especially amusing considering the only games Nigoro have released outside of the La-Mulana series are flash games where you do stuff like flipping skirts or slapping people.
>>744667769Pen and paper
>>744667769Sadly the absolute best version was the vita release. But the pc, and original freeware versions are fine.
>>744668130good thing i have a hacked vita
>>744667914>>744666661I wish there were games with the depth of la-mulana just hiding away on itch.io or steam or something but nothing can even hold a candle to it.
>>744667769You can play the remake of the original and La-Mulana 2 on pretty much any modern platform (PC, Switch, Playstation, Xbox). The games are actually discounted right now, it's £2.19 on steam for La-Mulana 1 or £8.48 for the 1 & 2 bundle, which is IMO the greatest value purchase you could ever make in terms of video games.Just be sure to thoroughly read the manual (available for free online), regularly take screenshots and make notes, and save in multiple slots. People who try the game and expect a regular Metroidvania often get filtered, since exploration requires much more than just looking at your map and seeing which path you haven't taken yet. It's much closer to an old-school adventure game in terms of its design philosophy. The jumping controls also put some people off, but the trick is realising there are basically two types of jumps (a forward jump with a rigid arc, and a "neutral" jump that lets you control your descent). When you understand that, you appreciate how tight they are and how the game is designed around it.La-Mulana 2 has more "modern" controls and is more accessible at the start for newer players. Although it basically spoils the plot and lore of the first game at the beginning, which is a huge part of the experience of the first game. So I wouldn't recommend starting with it.
>>744660626This is just my shitty uniformed opinion but aren't most indie japanese games for PC? From my little understanding, japanese people prefer consoles and mobile over PC and there has never been a mainstream PC gaming culture for Japan
>>744660626They all make NTR porn in RPG Maker nowadays.
>>744665107games for ancient hardware are still being released. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_(video_games)
>>744660626There's Black Souls, I guess. But nothing else went even semi-mainstream.
