As you might have heard, Bakugan: Champions of Vestroia has just been released on the Nintendo Switch. We described it as an attempt to "shoehorn the long-running franchise into a Pokémon Let's Go-style affair" for younger players that failed miserably with zero care or charm.
If that wasn't already enough of a red flag, according to GoNintendo, one player has now reportedly discovered a rather stylised error tied to an attack in the game. Instead of the localised name for this move, as you can see in the image below, it's "missing". But hey, at least the font looks fancy!
With any luck, WayForward can sort this issue out right away. If you would like to find out more about this latest Switch exclusive, check out our Nintendo Life review. Have you had a chance to go hands-on with this game yet? What are your early impressions? Tell us down in the comments.
[source reddit.com, via gonintendo.com]
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Wow just show how more crappy this game is.
As a programmer, I wish my error messages looked that cool.
Reminds me of a Christmas decoration I got a few years back. Under the name of the item in English it says “Spanish translation”
Developers using the convenience of patching as a crutch yet again. Who needs QC, right?
This is the sort of crap that would have gotten games recalled in the thousands back in the day.
@BakaKnight LOL.
New Attack = Missing Localization ID 🤣
Remind me for "Missing Animation" on The Sims 1 PC.
Take the picture and give to Ellen's Show.
Ok that’s hilarious.
Even the testers couldn't be bothered to keep playing the game I guess.
This looks like something from Moon-base Alpha.
Is this the end for WayForward? Their name used to be associated with quality games, but I guess 2020 took a toll on everyone...
Anime special move names are getting out of hand
If the check cleared maybe don’t hold your breath for much more
@Raylax Hahaha. I was thinking, with games like Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r] on the Switch, you could feasibly argue this was an deliberate stylistic choice and not an embarrassing error at all.
Still better than Grandia 2's Fraülein
Reminds me of when I was playing Puzzle Quest and one of the character's names was code. At least in that case it was tiny and at the bottom corner of the screen.
Unlike this, where it seems to literally scream "WE MADE A MISTAKE"
Unlike the "reviews" here, this piece does highlight an actually objective flaw. Hopefully one to be patched soon, although it's more embarrassing than game-breaking.
Maybe Wayforward should just stick to 2D games? Although, given that this is very funny, maybe they shouldn’t
That’s pretty funny
Wow, even WayForward can’t save a crappy licensed game.
I remember that attack! Thats how missing_id[]; fighter_23 beat the other guy's missing_id[]; bakumon_07 on that unaired episode!
Good times
@BakaKnight You beat me to it! I'd take error text like that over some of the SQL State errors that are spit out sometimes!
@RazumikhinPG All of their effort and money is going into their deal with Apple to make Apple Arcade games. WayForward prioritizes them because fruit phone is giving them kickbacks, while consoles aren't.
Look at graphics for instance: This game looks like something that a graphic design student would make for a midterm project (not saying college students can't do better, by the way). Marble Knight, the latest Apple Arcade Wayforward game, though, has three-dimensional graphics miles better than this.
Apple Arcade was also the main reason why Seven Sirens was a pathetically easy game with repetitive level design; it was meant to appeal to the mass market of "gamers" on iOS platforms. If WayForward's number one IP is being produced to meet the demands of Apple, you know there's something fishy going on...
Who knows, it wouldn't surprise me if that is the actual legit name for that special move 🤣
When this game got announced on the Nintendo Treehouse, I got told
"So Bakugan shouldn't have been announced at the Nintendo Treehouse because it wasn't what Nintendo fans wanted? Doesn't make sense to me"
So it's ok for Nintendo to cause false hype for over a day to showcase a licensed game that not many asked for that turned out to be a buggy sloppy product? -_-
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