Well, David Cage is still being allowed to write and direct video games!
Beyond is right around the corner, and I've decided that I'm going to call how this whole thing will play out.
The game will be praised by critics and 95% of the players for the first month, guaranteed (It's all story, so pretty unique, resulting in blind praise). The remaining 5% will hate it, they'll hate it so much that they'll replay it over and over to find every single awful plot hole. (If you haven't guessed by now, I'll be part of that 5%)
The minority will be brushed off with "You just don''t get it" and "Your stupid, this game is great" for weeks and weeks until they forget that the game even exists. Then the minority will stand at the top of the David Cage Hate Throne.
Then the next David Cage will come out in a couple years and the cycle will begin again.
It happened with Indigo Prophecy and Heavy Rain, now it'll happen with Beyond.
Honestly, with Sega's track record of dumb decisions, I have a strong feeling that one of the best localization teams ever is about to get canned, and we'll never see an Atlus game in NA ever again.
Although, if Sega decides to think, and does the smart thing with all the money they plopped on the table, Atlus will be untouched. They were the best branch of their last parent company, being profitable, it would be wise to just back off and let Atlus be Atlus.
It's nice to be optimistic but cynicism will keep me safe. I better start learning Japanese.
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