It's pretty hilarious that even China has clearly far more artistic freedom than the west now. The contrast between Chinese games and western DEI garbage was just insane in this State of Play.
China doesn't have the art paradigm we have where everything is art, try to pull some modern art stunt and you'll get your SCS tanked, art takes time, skill, effort and vision in China, as it did in the elden times of the 80's and 90's and 2000's for things like videogames. But we can't return to that now since men are investing in women to make and mediate million dollars investments in "art".
One of the Game Designers of the Zelda BOTW, Kentaro Tominaga is working on Infinity Nikki! That's so cool!!! So you may feel familiar with some of Zelda gameplay such as the platforming, dungeon.
3:32 I'm really surprised you think the demographic will be male. Paper Games/Infold is really female-focused company, most all of their projects are dress-up games (the Nikki series) or otome (dating games for women). I suppose if you're unfamiliar with the Nikki series, you could be confused from comparing it to similar looking female-protagonist games like Stellar Blade. I don't usually mind games being male-focused (except when they take out fanservice for girls because whiny male players are worried they'll become gay just by looking at an attractive male), but I really hope Infinity Nikki continues doing as the previous games did and focuses on female Nikki fans first and foremost.
@@WagnerKnows No, it's still women, and the studio has always been marketed to women. You may have misunderstood this, and Chinese male gamers are just like you guys, they play whatever game they need to play, don't ask me how I know because I'm Chinese.
@@WagnerKnowsThe majority of gamers in China playing the Nikki games are female, I’m only talking about the Nikki games Love Nikki and Shining Nikki , I don’t know about other games though.
Nikki, Anatara and Dynasty Warriors were the only things I remotely cared about from the state of play. None of those games are from western devs, shocker!
Infinity Nikki really looks like if Princess Peach: Showtime was an open world BOTW clone or Genshin. As a 32 year old man, I'm actually hyped for Infinity Nikki & I'm praying that Sony or those western journalists don't get the game censored. Definitely 1 of the only 2 games that caught my interest during the State of Play. I also didn't know Infinity Nikki was from China.
I personally don't think Infinity Nikki will get censored. In all the clothing items Ive gotten in Love and Shinning Nikki, none were really too revealing. Some did have a lot of skin showing but Nikki really has the girl next door look, unlike Stellar blade where they made the goods bigger than normal (lets say). Also Nikki looks 18+ so that wont be an issue either. But I will say this Nikki is a gatcha game, it will bleed a person's a wallet dry if you allow it. But the story and lore of the Nikki (which they update every few months) games are cute, fun and even very very dark at times. I hope you enjoy (44 year man here and I will play the bejesus out of this no shame)
@@nonespecial7505 I highly doubt Nikki will get censored, but don't be too surprised if the media try to find any little thing to tell the devs to censor. But yeah, I'm also hyped to play it, but I'm also skeptical with the gacha stuff possibly being paywalls towards the story.
The funny thing is, One of the Game Designers of the Zelda BOTW, Kentaro Tominaga is working on Infinity Nikki! That's so cool!!! So you may feel familiar with some of Zelda gameplay such as the platforming, dungeon.
I'm most excited for Where Winds Meet! Huge huge fan of wuxia and xuanhuan shows. The mix of wuxia and fantasy reminds me a lot of Ever Night (best show ever). Absolutely amazing stuff coming from China. Have you seen their animations (donghua)?
Yeah well considering in the last 5-10 years we haven't seen any Wuxia or Zhang Yimov films something is up. Either there is no Wuxia or mostof it was bad.
@@XVa-uj8m There're tons of good wuxia shows/movies recently. In the past 5 years: Side story of Fox Volant, Heroes (2022), Heroes (2024), Handsome Siblings, Who Rules the World, Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Sabre, The Ingenious One, The Blood of Youth, Wulin Heroes, Legend of Fei, Word of Honor, Sword and Fairy 1, Joy of Life, Sword Snow Stride, My Journey to You, Mysterious Lotus Casebook, A Journey to Love, Listening Snow Tower. Not to mention dynasty epics like Eagle Flag, The Long Ballad and Nirvana on Fire 1 & 2. I'm sure I missed quite a few and plenty of mediocre ones.
I've been saying for a while now that the up and coming game industries in other countries is going to be a new golden age for gaming. China is huge, and I can already see the potential in their artists already, but imagine the rest of the world. "California sensibilities" are incredibly niche. They have only half the support of the West, and none of the support of the rest of the world. When the rest of the world starts making games, they'll quickly see that, and we'll start getting more options that Western studios stopped giving us.
I love Chinese games because they are different while the West is cookie cutter and shockingly creatively far less free or able to take risks. I felt the same about Japanese games but there is far too much western influence there now. I cringe every time I hear about making manga, anime or games appeal to western audiences or how mangled content gets by localized to make them western. I consume foreign content specifically because they are not western and yes sometimes there are wildly different cultural standards and I don't want them westernized! Anyhoo I'm also looking forward to the hopefully eventual release of Phantom Blade Zero, Wuthering Waves,, where the wind meers, any Devil amd Fairy games, Nikki, wukong, playing wo long atm and old Gujian games.
I've been a fan of the nikki series for years with love nikki and shining nikki. I'm excited for infinity nikki. The company makes games aimed at a female audience but it will be interesting to see if guys will actually play infinity nikki.
Maybe because they added open world with more stuff to do like dungeons and a boss fight (one at least that I’ve seen) there might be more male audiences joining the game.
You’re the first channel that is talking about what I thought stand out is that the games that I got excited about are from China. I’m not into Nikki, it’s not my type of game. But Ballad of Antara is definitely my cup of tea. Tho it surprises me that you didn’t mention Where Winds Meet, that game is the 1 that I got excited about the most and it’s ofcourse also from China. What a suprise, huh?
China is massive. China ccp has issues importing stuff, exporting isn’t the same. It’s why u don’t see genshin and others as affected.. it’s when u want to go into chinas market u gotta bend,
Apparently the game is releasing on *mobile* as well? MOBILE??? I really hope that mobile version is completely different, so it's not a mobile game brought to other platforms. Good mobile games are near non existent these days since everything is ruined with microtransactions and shitty time gating.
The Nikki games started out on mobile. Though you’re probably not familiar with the games or you would know that, this is the fifth game in the franchise.
I consider myself as a bit of an alpha, but honestly Nikki does look interesting. Stellar Blade got me an into the costume collecting game, might as well continue it with Nikki I guess. Anatara looks awesome too, only partially because the females have boobs
Somewhere along the line a Korean or Japanese helped those in "Infinity Nikki", at least if it has some story of substance. If not than one of the main members of the dev. team is Gay or some multitude of unaccepted things in Mainland China. That or they were raised or spent a noticeable amount of time outside of China. I could be entirely wrong and Infold could just be a Taiwanese, NOT a mainland company which would explain everything nicely too.
Not many people are woke or political in China just like in America. Artist especially who are into Japan and Korea ..this is their way of escaping China. But u gotta remember chinas economy is massive.. lots of money.. China Japan, Korea care about $d it’s the west that care about agenda.
If the game has the story ideas as the phone games it will be cute , fun and dark all the time. Also Not sure who it is but someone who has worked on a few zelda games and mario games is in the team that is making Nikki
@@nonespecial7505 This would explain it as I don't believe ANY mainland Chinese who grew up there and lived their entire live could be this creative short of being Gay or some outlier.
@XVa-uj8m Not at all. I may be wrong, but you seem to be under the impression that mainland China, people are dressed only in grey and read Mao's Little Red book for entertainment. They have Steam over there, which is why Gabe Newell is so well regarded there. Back around 2008 or so Public Enemy performed with Marky Ramone (the last remaining Ramone) over at some Beijing Festival. Additionally Japanese acts often go over to earn some quick coin, Bandmaid did one of those Genshin Impact concerts about 2 years ago and the drummer from Nemophila often held drumming workshops in the mainland. It's easy for mainalnders to get foreign pop culture items, including North American, Japanese and Korean. In contrast, Canada if they learn you have a laptop and just returned from Japan, they can and have been known to go through a person's laptop and other belongings for "questionable content".
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It's pretty hilarious that even China has clearly far more artistic freedom than the west now. The contrast between Chinese games and western DEI garbage was just insane in this State of Play.
Yes sweet baby and DEI ditacture are stronger than Chinesse ditacture
China doesn't have the art paradigm we have where everything is art, try to pull some modern art stunt and you'll get your SCS tanked, art takes time, skill, effort and vision in China, as it did in the elden times of the 80's and 90's and 2000's for things like videogames.
But we can't return to that now since men are investing in women to make and mediate million dollars investments in "art".
Don't forget that china also have their own censorship
yes
China wants $ thats why
One of the Game Designers of the Zelda BOTW, Kentaro Tominaga is working on Infinity Nikki! That's so cool!!!
So you may feel familiar with some of Zelda gameplay such as the platforming, dungeon.
Wow 😲 this game keeps sounding better and better the more information I hear about it 🤠
3:32 I'm really surprised you think the demographic will be male. Paper Games/Infold is really female-focused company, most all of their projects are dress-up games (the Nikki series) or otome (dating games for women). I suppose if you're unfamiliar with the Nikki series, you could be confused from comparing it to similar looking female-protagonist games like Stellar Blade. I don't usually mind games being male-focused (except when they take out fanservice for girls because whiny male players are worried they'll become gay just by looking at an attractive male), but I really hope Infinity Nikki continues doing as the previous games did and focuses on female Nikki fans first and foremost.
In America it will be female, but in China, these games are surprisingly male dominated😅
在中國，這款遊戲的玩家群體大部分是男性玩家
@@WagnerKnows No, it's still women, and the studio has always been marketed to women. You may have misunderstood this, and Chinese male gamers are just like you guys, they play whatever game they need to play, don't ask me how I know because I'm Chinese.
@@WagnerKnowsThe majority of gamers in China playing the Nikki games are female, I’m only talking about the Nikki games Love Nikki and Shining Nikki , I don’t know about other games though.
Infinite Nikki may look girly, but at least it doesn't judge me, like Western games do.
The soy should fear the dragons of the east.
Nikki, Anatara and Dynasty Warriors were the only things I remotely cared about from the state of play. None of those games are from western devs, shocker!
You do know Playstation isn't a western console right?
@LuisPerez-5 you do realize Playstation isn't a dev right?
@@YanDaMan263 Playstation Game Studios is a publisher and again not western.
@@YanDaMan263 These games look cool but most of them are generic Souls-like games that don't live up to the Souls games
@@LuisPerez-5 In modern times, japan has always been in the western camp, leaving asia and joining europe was their general trend a hundred years ago.
Infinity nikki looks impressive, seems like a cool and relaxing game.
Yes, also keep an eye out for Chinese martial arts (WuXia) games Phantom Blade Zero, Perceptor, Where winds meet ......
Infinite Nikki looks amazing I love bayonetta and Stellar Blade and Devil may cry and Helldivers 2 and things like this but Nikki looks super cute.
Infinity Nikki really looks like if Princess Peach: Showtime was an open world BOTW clone or Genshin. As a 32 year old man, I'm actually hyped for Infinity Nikki & I'm praying that Sony or those western journalists don't get the game censored. Definitely 1 of the only 2 games that caught my interest during the State of Play.
I also didn't know Infinity Nikki was from China.
I personally don't think Infinity Nikki will get censored. In all the clothing items Ive gotten in Love and Shinning Nikki, none were really too revealing. Some did have a lot of skin showing but Nikki really has the girl next door look, unlike Stellar blade where they made the goods bigger than normal (lets say). Also Nikki looks 18+ so that wont be an issue either. But I will say this Nikki is a gatcha game, it will bleed a person's a wallet dry if you allow it. But the story and lore of the Nikki (which they update every few months) games are cute, fun and even very very dark at times. I hope you enjoy (44 year man here and I will play the bejesus out of this no shame)
@@nonespecial7505 I highly doubt Nikki will get censored, but don't be too surprised if the media try to find any little thing to tell the devs to censor.
But yeah, I'm also hyped to play it, but I'm also skeptical with the gacha stuff possibly being paywalls towards the story.
The funny thing is, One of the Game Designers of the Zelda BOTW, Kentaro Tominaga is working on Infinity Nikki! That's so cool!!!
So you may feel familiar with some of Zelda gameplay such as the platforming, dungeon.
I'm most excited for Where Winds Meet! Huge huge fan of wuxia and xuanhuan shows. The mix of wuxia and fantasy reminds me a lot of Ever Night (best show ever). Absolutely amazing stuff coming from China. Have you seen their animations (donghua)?
Yeah well considering in the last 5-10 years we haven't seen any Wuxia or Zhang Yimov films something is up. Either there is no Wuxia or mostof it was bad.
@@XVa-uj8m There're tons of good wuxia shows/movies recently. In the past 5 years: Side story of Fox Volant, Heroes (2022), Heroes (2024), Handsome Siblings, Who Rules the World, Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Sabre, The Ingenious One, The Blood of Youth, Wulin Heroes, Legend of Fei, Word of Honor, Sword and Fairy 1, Joy of Life, Sword Snow Stride, My Journey to You, Mysterious Lotus Casebook, A Journey to Love, Listening Snow Tower. Not to mention dynasty epics like Eagle Flag, The Long Ballad and Nirvana on Fire 1 & 2. I'm sure I missed quite a few and plenty of mediocre ones.
the fact Sony fumbled hard on their own event is just hilarious.
I've been saying for a while now that the up and coming game industries in other countries is going to be a new golden age for gaming. China is huge, and I can already see the potential in their artists already, but imagine the rest of the world. "California sensibilities" are incredibly niche. They have only half the support of the West, and none of the support of the rest of the world. When the rest of the world starts making games, they'll quickly see that, and we'll start getting more options that Western studios stopped giving us.
The west is failing on all fronts lol.
Movies
Games
Comics
Did it to themselves hiring activist vs focus on making money. Everyone warned them..
looking forward to Infinity Nikki.
I love Chinese games because they are different while the West is cookie cutter and shockingly creatively far less free or able to take risks. I felt the same about Japanese games but there is far too much western influence there now. I cringe every time I hear about making manga, anime or games appeal to western audiences or how mangled content gets by localized to make them western. I consume foreign content specifically because they are not western and yes sometimes there are wildly different cultural standards and I don't want them westernized! Anyhoo I'm also looking forward to the hopefully eventual release of Phantom Blade Zero, Wuthering Waves,, where the wind meers, any Devil amd Fairy games, Nikki, wukong, playing wo long atm and old Gujian games.
I've been a fan of the nikki series for years with love nikki and shining nikki. I'm excited for infinity nikki. The company makes games aimed at a female audience but it will be interesting to see if guys will actually play infinity nikki.
Maybe because they added open world with more stuff to do like dungeons and a boss fight (one at least that I’ve seen) there might be more male audiences joining the game.
China remembers what making money is.
You’re the first channel that is talking about what I thought stand out is that the games that I got excited about are from China. I’m not into Nikki, it’s not my type of game. But Ballad of Antara is definitely my cup of tea. Tho it surprises me that you didn’t mention Where Winds Meet, that game is the 1 that I got excited about the most and it’s ofcourse also from China. What a suprise, huh?
Oh I loved that one too.😀I didn't know that's a Chinese developer . China is really making moves 😎
A lot of these are just the same Souls-like game with different skins though
This state of showcase is 4/10, only because Ballad of Antara, Where Winds Meet, Infinity Nikki and Path of Exile 2. The rest is generic slop.
Yeah those, and maybe dynasty warriors (still ify on it after 9), literally are the only highlights of the show.
China is massive. China ccp has issues importing stuff, exporting isn’t the same. It’s why u don’t see genshin and others as affected.. it’s when u want to go into chinas market u gotta bend,
They probably literally takes over Sony. It would explain the reason of PSN in SP games on PC.
Apparently the game is releasing on *mobile* as well? MOBILE??? I really hope that mobile version is completely different, so it's not a mobile game brought to other platforms. Good mobile games are near non existent these days since everything is ruined with microtransactions and shitty time gating.
The Nikki games started out on mobile. Though you’re probably not familiar with the games or you would know that, this is the fifth game in the franchise.
I consider myself as a bit of an alpha, but honestly Nikki does look interesting. Stellar Blade got me an into the costume collecting game, might as well continue it with Nikki I guess. Anatara looks awesome too, only partially because the females have boobs
"I consider myself a bit of an Alpha"
Tell me you're a loser without telling me.
So being so horny with women, I promise your life will be better if you get out of that mindset and start focusing on self improvement
Somewhere along the line a Korean or Japanese helped those in "Infinity Nikki", at least if it has some story of substance. If not than one of the main members of the dev. team is Gay or some multitude of unaccepted things in Mainland China. That or they were raised or spent a noticeable amount of time outside of China.
I could be entirely wrong and Infold could just be a Taiwanese, NOT a mainland company which would explain everything nicely too.
You mean you are so anti China you can't fathom anything good coming out of China ? 😂
Typical salty hypocrite pos from
the west.
Not many people are woke or political in China just like in America. Artist especially who are into Japan and Korea ..this is their way of escaping China. But u gotta remember chinas economy is massive.. lots of money.. China Japan, Korea care about $d it’s the west that care about agenda.
If the game has the story ideas as the phone games it will be cute , fun and dark all the time. Also Not sure who it is but someone who has worked on a few zelda games and mario games is in the team that is making Nikki
@@nonespecial7505 This would explain it as I don't believe ANY mainland Chinese who grew up there and lived their entire live could be this creative short of being Gay or some outlier.
@XVa-uj8m Not at all. I may be wrong, but you seem to be under the impression that mainland China, people are dressed only in grey and read Mao's Little Red book for entertainment. They have Steam over there, which is why Gabe Newell is so well regarded there. Back around 2008 or so Public Enemy performed with Marky Ramone (the last remaining Ramone) over at some Beijing Festival. Additionally Japanese acts often go over to earn some quick coin, Bandmaid did one of those Genshin Impact concerts about 2 years ago and the drummer from Nemophila often held drumming workshops in the mainland.
It's easy for mainalnders to get foreign pop culture items, including North American, Japanese and Korean. In contrast, Canada if they learn you have a laptop and just returned from Japan, they can and have been known to go through a person's laptop and other belongings for "questionable content".
China needs to stay out of gaming
Why? Chinese seem to be doing a way better job then the woke bullshit
Chinese like to insert themselves into Western entertainment to overcompensate for their very very "short"coming lmao