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The X Button - Disposable Heroes

Sturgeon's Rule, of course. For every breakout show like Gargoyles, you had at least five or six shows nobody liked and thus nobody remembered, like Hyperman or Santo Bugito.

In fact, Ori and the Blind Forest is not so heavily inspired by Ueda's games. One gets a distinct Shadow of the Colossus sensibility from the giant, steel-masked owl glimpsed in the trailer, but other sources come through much stronger. The creators cite Ghibli movies and The Iron Giant in their inspirations for the game's glowing forest environments, where a foxlike forest spirit sets out to find his proper place in the world.

DRAGON QUEST HEROES: THE DARK DRAGON AND THE WORLD TREE CASTLE
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Domestic Release: The PlayStation 4 version will arrive here later this year, but the PlayStation 3 game stays in Japan. Square Enix mentions that a localization would take longer if both releases were brought over. I wonder if similar reasons kept them from putting Final Fantasy Type-0 on the Vita.

"We did consider whether a Vita version would make sense for the title or not," Tabata said. "And then afterwards—this is actually something I realized after creating the PSP version—in order to really bring out the best in this title, I felt that a bigger screen would be more appropriate in terms of the depth that it provides and the distance you have to the enemies, to the characters. It just made more sense to take it to the big screen.

"In terms of controls, also, it made more sense to have these sort of intuitive controls that are available for the console. In addition to that, I am aging as well, and my eyesight is getting worse, so it was easier, naturally easier to develop something for the bigger screen versus the smaller screen."

Tabata says they have no plans to release an English PSP version digitally, either. "That is not being considered," he said when I asked. "First and foremost, we want to get the packaged version to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One."

What channel and time slot did the Dragon Warrior show air on? Considering shows from that time rarely fell off that quick (though it certainly did happen), if a show failed to find an audience, it's either because it's on a channel no one cared about like TBS or USA (though The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog did decently rerun there), or it was up against some tough competition, airing at the same time as a more popular show (which I'd argue is what ultimately did Digimon in, as Fox kept putting it at the same time as Pokémon).

It aired back on syndication way back in 1990. I remembered waking up at 5 am (terrible time slot) to watch this. No wonder its run didn't last very long. I'm surprised that Todd didn't mention the Dai no Daibouken anime that ran in Japan from 1991-1992. Dai's (the main protagonist's name) adventures did get a fansubbed treatment, but only for 13 episodes. That one I would like to see the full 52 episodes for.

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Fans remain divided between those who disliked the game and those who just disliked the bratty new Dante

What about the third camp that genuinely liked the game and Dante?