The Viewtiful Joe collection was one in all Capcom’s most promising franchises. After a giant debut outing on GameCube and PS2 (the later that includes Dante from the Satan Could Cry collection), it acquired a direct sequel, a multi-console Smash-like spin-off, and aspect story unique to the Nintendo DS.

For some time there, it felt like Joe can be round perpetually, and in some methods, he has. Just like the forged of Capcom’s equally ill-fated Darkstalkers collection, Joe acquired an anime adaptation, a great deal of merch, and a number of visitor spots in crossover titles like Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom, Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, and the latest iteration of Puzzle Fighter.

However what’s actually puzzling is why Capcom let the collection die after that. Not like Okami, additionally developed by Capcom’s former studio Clover, not one of the Joe video games have ever been ported to fashionable consoles. Followers have by no means stopped asking for extra of each although. These followers additionally embody Hideki Kamiya, Joe’s humble creator. In a latest YouTube video, Kamiya-san lamented:

“I’d like to work on them if I ever get an opportunity. I truly had the story for a 3rd Viewtiful Joe all thought out. I’ve all the time needed to make it. I’m wondering if Capcom would let me make one other Viewtiful Joe… Okami, too. I really feel like I left that unfinished, so if we may make that occur as effectively, I’d be pleased.”

The start of Viewtiful friendship?

Okami did proceed on within the type of Okamiden in 2010, one other DS unique, however Kamiya wasn’t concerned there. By that point he had already moved on to co-found Platinum Video games, a group born from the ashes of Clover, which was dissolved in 2006. Platinum’s preliminary releases have been all collaborations with writer Sega, together with MadWorld, Bayonetta, and Vanquish.

They’d later companion with Activision, Konami, Sq. Enix, and even Nintendo, however by no means with Capcom. It’s been assumed that there could also be some dangerous blood between the 2 firms, stopping them from revisiting any of Clover’s former franchises.

However now that Kamiya-san has left Platinum, the door might open for the legendary director and his former employer to make viewtiful music collectively once more. With its Fred Durst-meets-Energy Rangers lead character, 2.5D cel shaded graphics, and gameplay that bridges the hole between the platformers of yesteryear and the character motion video games of right now, all the pieces about Viewtiful Joe screams early-2000s. It’s an period that many individuals right now are nostalgic for, confirmed by the runaway success of Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Metrid Prime Remastered, and that “Girl is my favourite man” music everybody appreciated for a couple of month.

Testing out the waters with ports of the primary two video games on fashionable consoles couldn’t be such a dangerous transfer, proper? Has the re-release of a GameCube sport ever accomplished poorly on Swap?