Genius Sonority has announced that its free-to-play title The New Denpa Men surpassed 100,000 downloads on its release day.
The publisher and developer shared this news on Twitter, thanking "all those who have downloaded the game so quickly".
And 100,000 downloads is nothing to be scoffed at. The New Denpa Men was initially brought to our attention when it appeared at last month's Nintendo Direct, but yesterday's launch was our first real chance to see what it's all about — and it appears to be going down quite well.
In this weird RPG, you'll add mysterious Denpa Men to your party and explore dungeons with each one's unique characteristics. When you're done exploring, there's also outfit customisation and island decoration to keep you busy, all of which are playable in four-player local co-op. For a free-to-play title, that doesn't sound too bad!
Keep an eye out for our review of The New Denpa Men soon, where we'll share our full thoughts on the game.
Have you tried The New Denpa Men yet? Share your thoughts with us below.
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Um...
No physical = no buy from me.
@Anti-Matter it's free...
@Sabruka
But Free 2 Play games are mostly have micro transactions on it.
And I don't want free digital games with suspicious things behind.
I want a paid full game with every contents inside physical media.
No more BS business practice with DLC, live service update, Free 2 play games, game renting service Game Pass, micro transaction, code in box, streaming only, etc.
For a series as immensely niche as Denpa Men, 100K downloads on the very first day is insanely impressive; glad to see one of Genius Sonority's more delightfully bizarre IPs relishing in success!
The game (at least on the US Nintendo site) is listed as having in-game purchases, but what do those look like exactly?
The couple of Nintendo Life articles so far haven't really explained that part and just keep saying it's free.
LOVING it so far! Everyone share your User ID!
@Anti-Matter As much as I love physical games, there's nothing wrong with having a few digital games.
I'm enjoying it so far! The translation needs work (it's more funny than progress-halting), and progress can be a little slow at the start, but the rewards for completing stages are nice (there's also a fair bit of challenge!). I'm interested to see how they expand on it over time 😁
@Vivianeat 8ET3VPKUGM
I've never played Denpa Men before but the new game was getting some hype on GameFAQs so I downloaded it. It's awesome! So much fun.
Nice and even more so considering it's a niche series as mentioned by others, have downloaded it myself but haven't started it yet, looking forward to doing so when I can!
@Anti-Matter
It’s less than 400MB download.
Classic Anti Matter 😸
anyways this kinda looked like a pikmin ripoff when i saw it in the direct, so i kinda ignored it. maybe ill give it a try now !
@OctolingKing13 wrote:
Why did that make me laugh so hard?!
I'll download this one!
Glad to see it's gotten quite a few downloads, but I'm wondering how so many people found it because I didn't see it on the recent releases section on the US EShop so I idk if it got the biggest possible launch it could of had if it isn't there.
Or I could be blind you never know I just didn't see it
Played it for a bit, is it just me or is the translation for this game...off?
@Joeynator3000 It does feel a little off, but it's not so bad that you can't understand
Does this game need internet to play after downloading it?
In spite of the negative opinions i read yesterday, i decided to try it out. So far it’s a quirky and fun little dungeon crawler.
@beltmenot Sadly, yes, it requires internet.
Guess this game is still pretty popular.
Are the older games as fun as this? I think I downloaded one of them on 3DS awhile ago when it was on sale, but never played it.
No games on Switch now, People are hungry for real games.
@OctolingKing13 If its comforting, they've developed these games and more.
Pokémon Colosseum
Pokémon XD Gale of Darkness
Pokémon Trozei
I downloaded it last night and ended up playing until pretty late. The combat is almost entirely automatic, so the actual challenge mostly comes from picking out your teammates and equipment, and deciding when to fight/run/heal. They're not exactly subtle about the microtransactions, but considering it's a free game and I haven't run into anything that makes them feel necessary yet, I can't complain too much. Most importantly, it has a fishing minigame, which obviously makes it a guaranteed 10/10. Oh, also, the translation is pretty bad, but everyone in this game is a weirdo, so all of them speaking half-gibberish honestly makes more sense than if they spoke normally.
@Joeynator3000
The translation is definitely wonky.... I bet they used an AI or Google translator and simply copied/pasted. It reads poorly at best.
@Joeynator3000 : I suspect that the script was translated by the inventor of the Jill sandwich.
Yeah usually translations don't bother me TOO much (apparently people were complaining Dave the diver felt off, but that game seemed completely fine to me...), but this game, I'm just noticing oddities all the time, makes reading difficult sometimes because I'm going back saying "...wait, what?", lol
@Fizza
At least in Japan, this is a very popular series. It has 4 3DS entries, and this one is somewhat an enhanced port of DM4.
To anyone that asks yes the translation is a bit off.
When you use a antenna power it says something along the lines of “(skill name) of (denpa men name) and at one point they misspelled “without”.
Still a charming game so far and it’s not as bad as elemental knights. (Seriously they never fixed the translation for that game?!)
I'm surprised there's no New Denpa Men review on here already
I remember seeing this on the 3ds but I can’t remember if I played it or not lol, no harm in trying it though! And everyone else here seems like they are saying it’s pretty good I just hope I feel the same!
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@RupeeClock
It's like a Jewel Pack that you can use to speed up a process or restore stamina points so you can keep doing "adventures". Each adventure has a stamina cost and each stamina point takes real world time to regenerate.
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Loving It so far!
Feel free to add me!
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@SuperCesco Thanks! Someone made a forum post for the game, and if you want to drop your code in there too, you’re welcome to.
@AmyTheBrawler-64 The badge is unfortunately imaginary, but it is very shiny.
You’ve come full circle!
Agreed, there is a Mii-ish-ness to the denpas.
@Diogmites @AmyTheBrawler-64 Lol.
@Zach777
Ahh, so it's like the Gem Apples from Super Kirby Clash, makes sense.
Besides the “always online” element, it’s alright; I hadn’t really ran into any walls yet as far as I know. I vaguely recall dempa men being a thing as far back as the 3DS…here’s hoping they bring it to other platforms
Wait, always online?
No thanks.
I don't play always online games.
I want offline games.
Yes @anti-matter we get it, you don’t want this game.
@iNintendo I wouldn't waste your breath he only likes a specific kind of game that he matches his specific taste and if It dosen't fit the criteria then it's awful According to him.
It took me more than 10 hours to realize you can actually give your party members individual commands.
@Anachronism I didn’t know that either lol… I’ll have to try that out next time i play.
@OctolingKing13 This has everything he hates in a game
@Vivianeat great to hear! I'll have to find some time to try it out later today.
Guys, I'm getting the feeling that Anti-Matter doesn't want this game.
https://youtu.be/55Wf2QyJQAs
🙄🙄🙄 First one is "free"
For a freemium game, it's honestly not that bad. The jewel cost is essentially 1:1, it follows the Denpa Men logic well, village/landing zone, dungeon, back home.
My only gripes are the money grinding required at times, and the stamina system. The recharge time is ridiculous, and you're often left at a need for money for gear and healing items.
@Mrkittyhead lol. Same here, I've now got that same feeling that he doesn't want this game, so, therefore it's terrible to him as a fact.
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