To use another Yoko Shimomura collaboration as an example, Kingdom Hearts III had a weaker OST in part because the composers' unique choice of instruments clashed so hard. Hopefully Soliani and his team are not too negatively affected if the game does not end up meeting sales expectations.Ĭlick to expand.The note in particular about using the same orchestra and instrumentation for consistency is extremely important. I wouldn't expect any more games in this series, which is a shame I feel, because the game looks fantastic and way more interesting than a lot of the Ubisoft design-by-committee feeling games that make up most of their library. Unless the more casual audience on the switch, which has grown tremendously since 2017, is going to be big on this game, there is a good chance Ubisoft loses a lot of money on this title at launch, especially with the growing mindset of the "I'll wait until it's $20" group, which seems to dominate every discussion on this game. Plus,the marketing budget is probably a lot bigger for this title compared to the first (which launched only two and a half months after reveal.)
The buzz and excitement around this game is far more subdued than it was for the original while at the same time being a much bigger production than the first game with a much bigger development team. I don't think it's a given that Sparks of Hope is going to do well commercially. Just look at the excitement the developers themselves had when the announcement was made.
It seems to me that Soliani and his team has now adopted the IP. Of course, now that Ancel has left, Rayman future was in much uncertainty much like Mega Man was when Keiji Inafune left Capcom. A new Rayman game was going to happen after the development of games like BGaE2 and Wild so it was going to take awhile. He basically had the control over the IP.
I think the biggest reason why we never got Rayman games wasn't because the games don't sell, I've established in a post somewhere here that Legends must have sold close to 5 million units due to the series total sales going up by that much since its release, but because Michel Ancel was THE Rayman guy for the longest time. I think with Rayman it's less of a test to see if there is any interest, there obviously is considering the reception to the DLC announcement was extremely positive, and more them just trying to bring him back in the spotlight again after a decade long wait.
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