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Video game industry, I just don't understand you.
After Pacific Rim released, I told everyone who would listen and some people who wouldn't that a game where two players could co-operatively control a jaeger using motion controls would sell me on a Kinect and none of you made that game. Weren't you listening?
Now, Nickelodeon's The Legend of Korra - follow-up to their hit Avatar: The Last Airbender - is getting a video game, and now I'm not certain any developers are taking my advice on the whole Pacific Rim thing.
Anyway.
For the uninitiated, The Legend of Korra is a legend about a young woman named Korra who is her world's newest Avatar. Avatars are people capable of manipulating all four elements - air, fire, earth, and water - thanks to inheriting the power of the Avatar, which has been "passed down" for generations. Korra is faced with factions opposed to her or looking to use her power and status for their own gain across the show's currently released two seasons, and rarely hesitates to screw some dudes up when the time comes.
With brilliant animation fueling the flowing and action-packed fight scenes, I suppose it's only natural that the company developing this Nickelodeon show is Platinum Games.
Yup - the house that Kamiya built will be releasing Bayonetta 2 and a game based on a Nickelodeon cartoon within a very short time span. I have high hopes, even if my only rationale for those hopes is "Platinum Games is making it." It helps that Tim Hedrick, one of the series' writers, will be penning the story, which sits between the show's second and third seasons. Still, it'll be hard to go back to the show after Platinum has Korra hurling Metal Gears through skyscrapers.
Platinum Games' take on The Legend of Korra releases this fall on Xbox 360, Xbox One, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, and PC for download this fall.
[Source: IGN]
Comments
9 years, 9 months ago
my first reaction was "wut", then it was "ok, that's cool".
They've decided to go the South Park route and use a credible studio, in theory, trying to favor quality over "it's just some kids game, money money money".
9 years, 9 months ago
Sigh unfortunately platinum desperately need the money, I forsee them making a lot of games like this in the future but if it helps the company stay afloat then I guess its a good thing.
9 years, 9 months ago
"Download" game, huh....that's both good and bad.
I wonder if the money they make from this will be used to fund Scalebound?
9 years, 9 months ago
I have never seen the show but I have enjoyed every single Platinum Games' games that I played and may pick this up when it's cheap.
9 years, 9 months ago
This announcement took me by surprise. Someone higher up at Nickelodeon must be a Platinum fan like the rest of us.
9 years, 9 months ago
I hope this doesn't turn out to be pretty bad, like the previous console Avatar games. I'm somewhat excited because I like the show, but my expectations are not high.
9 years, 9 months ago
Hopefully it ends up good but I'll always be apprehensive about a licensed game.
9 years, 9 months ago
At the end of the day, despite Nickolodeon's name on it. It is two things.
A Platinum game: Great.
A new Avatar game: Potentially good. Potentially not so good.