why did it flop?
>>12250309It was too hard for the tendie
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>>12250309Title is too close to Semen Crust
>>12250309I was a SNES kid. I didn't hear of this game until I started using /vr/ decades later. I'm sure I never saw Demon's Crest mentioned in contemporary magazines. So, I'd say it had a problem with marketing at the very least.
>>12250309Maybe some people got the bad ending and thought that was it? Can you even return to your save and find the levels you missed?
>>12250309I don't get it. He's hot.
>>12250385I remember nintendo power mentioning it constantly, and even having it on the cover.
>>12250309It flopped because it costs $999 and it's FUCKING MINE
>>12250387>Can you even return to your saveThe game had a password system. Just input the last one you wrote down, and look for stuff you missed.
>>12250403Yup, I still have the fold-out poster somewhere
>>12250403Okay. Well, I usually bought multiplat mags because they tended to be (slightly) more honest in their reviews.
>>12250309christian soccer moms were not having any of that
What the modern gamer doesn't understand is that few people gave a shit about the memetroidvania genre back then. Even Super Metroid wasn't the genre definining masterpiece everybody knew and played you think it was. Back then people cared about a game having substance (challenge), but the skill level of the average player decreased with time and by the early 00's since players were no longer able to care about substance they started to care about content (lot's of mindless stuff to do and collect plus backtracking), something still valid today. That is when the memetroidvania genre got popular. So you can say that Demon's Crest wasn't popular because it was ahead of its time.
I was really into SNES as a kid but I have no memory of seeing the game anywhere or in any magazines I read but apparently it was in some. I also remember first playing a ROM of it in like 2000 and after you beat that dragon at the very beginning it would just tell you it was a demo or something. I don't think I found a full ROM until a few years later. Honestly I like the gameplay of the NES and GB games way more but man does Demon's Crest have beautiful presentation.
>>12250309No one wants to play the bad guy
>>12250309>WHY DID X Ykys zoomer trash
>>12250309Generally when people think of demons they think of something badass, but the guy in this game looks tiny. Also the M-shape open legs pose is very off-putting.
>>12250643Also, I forgot to mention, he kinda looks like a grilled nagger. Why would you want to play as a tiny M shaped grilled nagger?
>>12250643>M-shape open legs poseWith his toes balletically pointed downwards for an extra dash of gayness.
>>12250409Lol faggot
>>12250690In the Japanese version and on his sprites he isnt wearing any underwear either.
Demon's Crest didn't exactly set the world on fire when it was released, and there are a few reasons for that. For one, it was a pretty dark and unconventional game for its time, which might have put off some players. It's also a relatively short game, so players didn't get a lot of bang for their buck.Capcom didn't exactly go all out on marketing, either, so it flew under the radar for a lot of people. And to make matters worse, it was released during a crazy busy holiday season, so it got lost in the shuffle.There's even a story (might be apocryphal, but still) that the game was selling so poorly, there was a week where more people were returning it than buying it! Not exactly the kind of vibe you want around your game.It's a shame, because Demon's Crest is actually a really solid game, and it's gained a bit of a cult following over the years. People are starting to recognize it as a hidden gem, and it's cool to see it getting some love.
>>12251152>There's even a story (might be apocryphal, but still) that the game was selling so poorly, there was a week where more people were returning it than buying it!t. wikipedia page
>>12250309I only learned this game exists thanks to roms, never seen it back in the day. It's ok but I remember thinking the level design was kinda boring, and having way too many abilities I didn't need.
No one wants to play as the red nigga
>>12250309The protagonist was too scary.Nintendo players want to play as cute characters like Kirby or Yoshi.
>>12251163Sounds like Christian sabotage. Buy a bunch of copies then return them all to make it seem like everyone's doing it and that you shouldn't buy it in the first place.
It failed because it's yet another poorly playing SNES game that happens to look decent in screenshots. If you actually tried to play it, you'd see why nobody cared for it, and they still don't care for it today.
I rented it once and wasn't impressed. The spooky Halloween theme is cool but the game itself is worse than some of Capcom's NES games.
idk how it was at the time of release, but I played it on emulator around 2005 and didn't really like how slow it was, and despite only getting the first transformation I was already bored of switching between normal/stone one all the time and assumed it would be even worse as more were added in the future
>>12250385I heard about it from an armake21 video in 2012
>>12251272>Sounds like Christian sabotage.Nonsense, they never even knew it existed. In 1995 the SNES section of retailnstores was tiny, they had room for the hit games like MK3, madden 95 and NBA jam. Ops game landed christmas 1994 and I saw a single retail copy ever over the next 12 months, and that was at a gaming specialty store (EB or a local mom and pop equivalent). Never saw a copy for rent either, this was already the playstation era.As for "too demonic" MK franchise and doom were among the biggest games in the world at the time, and 1996 saw diablo land without a hint of protest from "concerned christians".If 24,000 copies were returned in january it was because they were bought by parents for christmas and returned so the kid could get Madden 95. This was common for a lot of christmas release games in the 90s.
>>12250409>"they never marketed this game in magazines!">gets proven wrong>"NOOO those magazines don't count!"
>>12250338The secret final boss is considered one of the hardest bosses of the SNES
>>12250568>memetroidvania genreNot like it was a genre at the time yet. Games in that style existed but the term wasn't coined till the early 2000s by Jeremy Parish on 1Up. That said, Super Metroid was still mostly certainly considered one of the heavy hitter must owns on SNES, everyone I knew that had a SNES had it.
>>12251294This basically.The controls are slow and the game opens with a boss encounter.
>>12251446*most certainly
>>12250568People who tried and rejected Demon's Crest never even knew it was a "Metroidvania." The first two levels are traditional action-platforming.
>>12251446Parish disputes this slightly, it was on 1Up Forums and the term was invented by Scott Sharkey in just a silly throwaway reference to the style and Parish picked it up and ran with it. So coined by Scott Sharkey but popularized by Jeremy Parish is the accepted origin.
>>12251446>>12251457The correct terminology is Willyvania and Parish has since acknowledged this, as Jet Set Willy predates Metroid.
>>12251416>>12250338This game filtered players way before it got hard.
>blatantly satanic game for children
>>12251509Nintendo allowed this and Doom but for some reason Devil World was too much
>>12250309Why would a demon wear panties
>>12251586American covers are just weird like that
>>12250338It's way too easy though, yes including the final final final boss (winning that fight without healing powers is extremely hard, but if you just load up on spells or whatever beforehand it's easy)
>>12251509testing testing, does captcha work?
>>12251573well "Devil" is synonymous with Satan which would literally make it a Satanic game"Demon" could be any demonic entity.
>>12251632He looks way better naked.
>>12250309Boris Vallejo's wife painted this cover.
>>12251782Yeah and also Devil World literally has bibles in it. It's a work of cartoon Christian mythology from the ground up. I mean they still could have just changed the sprites and entity names and it could have been fine. I guess they just didn't expect enough sales to want to bother with that.
>>12251446>>12251456My point is back when it came out people going in expecting something like Super Ghost'n Goblins and Ghouls'n Ghosts would be disappointed to find a walking simulator with no challenge.Demon's Crest is the kind of game that could have been popular on GBA in the early 00's
They should have called it Gargoyle's Quest 3. Those games were more successful than this.
>>12252075how embarrassing. did he divorce her?
>>12252609My point is, Demon'd Crest doesn't come off as a walking simulator with no challenge. That's now how it was judged.
>>12251457Man wtf happened to sharkey??
>>12252609>Demon's Crest is the kind of game that could have been popular on GBA in the early 00'sMakes sense since Gargoyle's Quest was a gameboy game. They should've kept the series on portables.
I'm an old fuck. I read egm and gamepro... we just never heard of the game really. You'd see it in the store but it had no reputation as a "must play well made game". I'm sure it got okay reviews but there was no word of mouth power, it blended in with 200 other games. It didn't gain fame until after the SNES lifespan was up, its a cult title I guess.
>>12250309They literally made 500 copies of it for the western market.
Nintendie Power #100 (page 112, I'm not uploading images until they unfuck captcha), is the sole source of that retarded returns claim, is there anything more credible?
>>12251409retard
>>12250309One of the slowest games on SNES and that’s saying something. The soundtrack was too serious and not catchy.Bad performance > epicslop music > holy shit this game was ahead of its time
It was a very dark game.Fathers wouldn't buy it for their kids. It also came much later at SNES cycle. Capcom didn't market it enough.It was asking to be a flop.>>12253119Retard.>>12250568I don't see it as a Metroidvania. IMO Metroidvanias need to have interconnected maps.
>>12252670No, they are still married.
