Justin Celani writes: Devils Third has had one hell of a journey finally making it to its US release, hell I’d even go as far to say released period. Coming from famed game director Tomonobu Itagaki of Ninja Gaiden fame, this is a game that seems like it took one hell of a journey to get here. With THQ going out of business leading to the inevitable help and distribution from Nintendo, who now seemingly appears to be putting the game out to die barely acknowledging it exists. With no review copies and hardly any copies on shelfs for consumers to find, is the game any good, and are there enough redeeming qualities so many years after the initial reveal that it’s worth tracking down?
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Nintendo has officially taken down the servers for Wii U shooter Devil's Third developed by Valhalla Game Studios.
this game creator payed his idiocy to change the development for exclusive release on a dying hopeless console with the best way ....the game was generally good i liked it and was the closest thing to a hardcore Ninja Gaiden we could get on new consoles ....but literaly its creator was idiot as f..k to undermine his game (it was obviously downgraded for Wii u) and release it exclusively on a underpowered system for some cash,destroyed his name in a moment
Oh boo hoo. Someone didn't get a game to come to their system.
@Edmix
Believe me I know the feeling haha, just pushing out a similar statement many others make, just cause.
@ rjason
Apparently.
@ XisThatKid
How did they ask for it? You know the company responsible for the engine used to make the OG game went under forcing Itagaki to scrap it and start over, right? Not to mention THQ, its original publisher, eventually withdrawing support before going under. As for it becoming a Wii U exclusive, Nintendo was the one willing to help Itagaki with the funding to finish making the game.
This is easily one of the stupidest investments I've ever seen any company ever make for an exclusive by a third party. I'm surprised you think the game is any good at all because I don't really believe the Wii U made this game bad, believe it was going to be bad regardless of where it was. The Wii U has a handful of really great games please do not blame the hardware for how crappy this game actually is. To my understanding when you create a game for a specific piece of Hardware your job is to adapt. So do not blame the hardware for why this game was horrible blame the developer for even downgrading the game in the first place as opposed to adapting to their situation. If you have to downgrade a game so significantly that it begins to affect the design and quality you're probably not supposed to be downgrading it in the first place to such a platform. I don't blame the platform in this respect I blame the developer because they chose to continue despite knowing the hardware differences. The regular Wii U exclusives don't have that problem because they were made to actually work on that platform...
@rjason- could be because it sounds to me like he basically likes the game but he's angry at the decision of it being exclusive somewhere else
I have not felt so selfish about a game before. I like many waited and waited patiently since this games release and out of no where Wii U exclusive. At the time i didn't have a Wii u and honestly i wanted it for ps3 but that never happened nor for 4. Anyway i honestly am glad this happened. Save for the innocent dev and people involved But i never wanted a game to fail so badly. Not to mention when i finally played it i think it sucks imho. I'm fine with exclusives but when a game's announced for your console or platform of choice then retracted they're asking for it.
he had no big name to start with.. this same guy did the same to DOA4 and Ninja Gaiden for 360 and in the end he talks s### about Team Ninja about NG3 and DOA5. He's a loser !
Ikr it looked interesting in the beginning before it became an nintendo exclusive. Don't know what happened when it became an exclusive.
A lot happens when a game gets developed. A proof of concept demo or pre rendered video being received well doesn't necessarily equate to a game game being good.
Depends on where you are located. Here in the UK you can pick this up for around £12.
bro you wont they made so few copies they are mostly locked in cages atm in ppls collections waiting for the value to skyrocket.
i only say that because im in the same boat all physical copies near me were scooped up day one and ebay had a field day
and this is why we should not support nintendo any more
they done it with the wii and they killed the ds off for no reason.
total bad for business
Um. You can still get the main D3rd game, albeit digitally. The only thing they killed here was the online multiplayer.
Wait why are peopole acting like they care now? You didn't when it was released.
I don't think Itagaki is crazy for making a Wii U exclusive.
I think he's crazy for pushing out a half baked, flawed as all hell, generic gore fest on the Wii U without making use of any of the console's specific features, and throwing his toys out of the pram when people criticise it.
Tomonobu Itagaki, outspoken former leader of Tecmo's Team Ninja and current leader of Valhalla Game Studios, has spent the last eight years of his life working on the action game Devil's Third.
I was actually disappointed with this game. All those years to make this smh. Go back to Team Ninja and make another Ninja Gaiden
Amazing how quickly this game sold out everywhere. They must have done a very low production run, very few copies made. Seems like Nintendo really did "send this game out to die", making a tiny production run of the physical game, and pricing it way too high.
Also, there isn't much of an incentive to buy the game digitally, for two reasons. One, the Wii U has almost no internal storage, and this game takes up 16.4gb (over half of the Wii U's 25gb). Two, if your Wii U breaks, is lost, or stolen, you lose all your digital purchases, since they are tied to hardware, not accounts. Not worth the risk of buying anything digitally from Nintendo for those reasons.