While anime has definitely developed a strong presence outside of Asia, there are some very popula🍷r multifaceted ﷽series that have not fully migrated over yet.
However, many of these have developed niche fanbases in the Western hemisphere. They have become so prominent that they birthed a niche games market. This includes Fate, the anime franchise owned by game company Type-Moon. It is a series of many different games and anime taking place in various continuitiest. In each one, iconic figures of the past (think Nap🐼oleon, Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes) are summoned by a mage to either fight in a war for a holy grail that can grant any wish - or in some cases aid them in a quest to help humanity.
Or, in the ca👍se of the most recent game, just to help them make some delicious food.
In Everyday Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family, protagonist Shirou makes meals together with his friends Rin Tohsaka and Sakura Matou. Based off the Fate anime Today's Menu for the Emiya Family, the game is a hybrid of both visual novels and cooking games. Unfortunately, there are no plans for this Switch game to launch outside of Japan - which is strange, considering how well the franchiꦿse has done here in recent years.
The Success of Extella and Grand Order
The numbers don't lie here. When Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star and its sequel Extella: Link launched in the States, it sold nearly 300,000 copies altogether in both releases. Which, for a niche game, is pretty high. This shows that the series does have a marketable, revenue earning fanbase outside of Japan - albeit a small one. Fate: Grand Order, the series' free-to-play mobile gacha game, has generated billions 🥃of dollars alone in its versions outside of Japan.
What Fate Fan Doesn't Want to Cook With Saber?
If you play Grand Order, chances are you've spent a ton of game currency trying to get your🌄 favorit♔e servant. Sometimes you've been lucky and sometimes you wanted to scream in frustration at getting your 55th copy of Euryale. And if you have a lot of luck, you were able to get Saber. Saber, better know as Artoria, is Fate's female version of King Arthur. Besides being the mascot of the mobile game, she is the partner of Shirou, as well as a star of Fate/Stay Night and Fate/Zero. Everyone who is familiar with Fate in general knows who 𝔉she is, and she's a fan favorite of many. The fact that the player getℱs to interact with her makes it an extremely high se꧋lling point of the game to the community.
We Already Know The Story Will Be Good
When choosing to purchase a new game that we don't have much background of, you take a gamble in its quality with your investment. No one wants to waste their hard earned money on something you ma🧔y not enjoy. But there's definitely no unfamiliar territory here at least for th🐟e fans. Because if Type Moon excels at one thing, it's storytelling and character development.
Take, for example, the character of Gilgamesh. In the Stay Night anime, he'ss portrayed as a reckless arrogant demigod who only cares about himself. But in Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia, he's grown into a very wise King. Rin, Sakura, Shirou and Saber all have very distinct quirky personalities and in a slower paced Slice of Life type setting, it's often the characters that can makes or break if a series is🎐 interesting. Plus, we're sure to get a cameo from Taiga, Shirou's rambunctious landlady.
Not Everyone Wants To Play A Hardcore Game
While Emiya Family is part of the niche games market, the current worldwide trends of gaming put it beyond that spectrum. Looking at the recent success of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Animal Crossing: New Horizons, at least one undeniable fact has come𓆉 to light: there is a 𝔉demand for more and more lifestyle games.
Gaming is so varied because everyone likes something different. There are peopleౠ out there who might thrive on doing the challenges in Devil May Cry V , let's say, and some who thrive on making their New Horizons island look pretty. For a lot of people it's aꦺ leisurely activity, a way to unwind. They may not want to do so by slaying demons, and that is absolutely okay. These types of consumers would be very interested in a visual novel cooking game with a cute story. In fact, the growing popularity of lifestyle games is making visual novel formats equally popular for developers to use.