{"id":106966,"date":"2020-01-09T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/level-5_realises_fans_dont_like_delays_but_does_it_to_make_its_games_better"},"modified":"2020-01-09T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T03:30:00","slug":"level-5-realises-fans-dont-like-delays-but-does-it-to-make-its-games-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/09\/level-5-realises-fans-dont-like-delays-but-does-it-to-make-its-games-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Level-5 Realises Fans Don&#8217;t Like Delays, But Does It To Make Its Games Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a06eaf6a0c621\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a06eaf6a0c621\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Akihiro Hino - Level 5's President and CEO\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a06eaf6a0c621\/akihiro-hino-level-5s-president-and-ceo.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a06eaf6a0c621\/akihiro-hino-level-5s-president-and-ceo.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Akihiro Hino - Level 5's President and CEO\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The developer and publisher behind series like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds-eshop\/inazuma_eleven\">Inazuma Eleven<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/professor_layton_and_the_curious_village\">Professor Layton<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/yo-kai_watch\">Yo-Kai Watch<\/a><\/strong> had a relatively busy year in 2019 \u2013 announcing and localising a bunch of games while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/rumour_level-5_game_delays_linked_to_mass_employee_exodus\">experiencing<\/a> some troublesome delays at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest issue of Famitsu (1623), Level-5&#8217;s President and CEO Akihiro Hino addressed the company&#8217;s game delays \u2013 such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/inazuma_eleven_heroesr_great_road\"><strong>Inazuma Eleven: Heroes\u2019 Great Road<\/strong><\/a>, stating how it was all about building up each game over time, even if it did worry fans. Here&#8217;s the translation by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bk2128\">BlackKite<\/a> (via Japanese Nintendo):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our development for games keep getting delayed, so it continues to make all our fans worry, but I want to properly build up titles we\u2019re currently working on.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Hino couldn&#8217;t reveal any of Level-5&#8217;s plans for the rest of the year, he did say the Japanese company was going to &#8220;challenge new things&#8221; in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>If we&#8217;re being honest, at this point we would just like to see <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/yo-kai_watch_4\">Yo-Kai Watch 4<\/a><\/strong> localised. It came out in Japan last June and since then an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/level-5_announces_yo-kai_watch_4plusplus_for_switch\">enhanced version<\/a> has been released on the Switch and PlayStation 4.<\/p>\n<p><em>What are your thoughts about Level-5 delaying games to &#8220;properly&#8221; build them up? Tell us down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developer and publisher behind series like Inazuma Eleven, Professor Layton and Yo-Kai Watch had a relatively busy year in 2019 \u2013 announcing and localising a bunch of games while experiencing some troublesome delays at the same time. In the latest issue of Famitsu (1623), Level-5&#8217;s President and CEO Akihiro Hino addressed the company&#8217;s game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}