Those sunglasses hide a will of iron
Devil’s Thirdhas been in developmentfor half as long as some of our readers have been alive, and it shows. The game feels a lot like something that might have been big in 2008, mixing sword-and-gun action withunintentionally funny machismoandknowingly ridiculous non-sequiturs.
Sadly, things may not look quite as promising forDevil’s Thirdin 2015. The game is plannedfor release in JapanandEurope this August, but it was a no-show at E3 this year, which has some worried that Nintendo has lost faith in the product’s potential with the American audience.Devil’s ThirdcreatorTomonobu Itagakisounds undeterred though. stating on Facebook “I will release myDevil’s Thirdin North/South America. My will.”. Some are taking that to mean that he plans to gain the rights to publish the game in the Americas himself, which would really be something. He’s also shown support forthose asking if the game will be a digital-only release, which has others guessing that bothDevil’s ThirdandFatal Frame Vwill be sold to international audiences exclusively on the Wii U eShop later this year.
If Nintendo is worried thatDevil’s Thirdmight not sell well, they may want to forego giving the American publishing rights to Itagaki and/or going for an eShop-only release, and should instead consider packaging the game with an exclusive amiibo and someSplatooncrossover content. A bald man covered in tattoos wearing a squid-kid wig may not sound like a conventionally marketable idea,but it worked pretty well for us.
