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Sabotage Studio initially projected sales of 250,000 copies of Sea of Stars in the first year. They hit that target within just a week. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by lawrence@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Source tweet: https://twitter.com/seaofstarsgame/status/1699175546930766092

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[-] Tbird83ii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Sure, let's just say Final Fantasy was the only popular JRPG around 1997 and we can forget about Pokemon, Earthbound/Mother, Super Mario RPG, Zelda, Dragon Quest...

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Is Zelda a JRPG? I thought one of the defining aspects of the genre was turn- and statistics-based combat. Any Zelda game I'm aware of has real-time combat where hit/miss is based on hit boxes instead of stats.

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I didn't say popular, I said mainstream. Zelda isn't often claimed by the genre, and Pokémon was literally the only other multi-million seller in the genre in the west.

Earthbound is the very definition of a cult classic, and Dragon Quest wasn't even getting localized at that time.