Why hate Nicalis


Stole cave story rights from pixel with an abusive contract, pretend they made cave story, are trying to do the same to umihara kawase

Took a free to play game and JEWED THE FUCK OUT OF IT, have to rights to it forever now, original creator got fucked

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Remilore was the last straw with them for me. They cancelled the physical PS4 version and changed the contents of the Switch version last minute. They didn't even announce the PS4 cancellation, and won't answer the shitload of comments on their twitter regarding it

Additionally, they teased 1001 Spikes and Runner for PS4 physical months ago, and have made no comments regarding it since even though physical copies exist in the wild and are even for sale on eBay currently

Don't get me started on fucking Hydra Castle Labyrinth. Announced for Switch over 2 years ago before the Switch even released, the MC is playable in their shitty Puzzle Fighter clone, but NOTHING regarding the port to this day

I will continue to buy all their games second hand and get my money back by selling the bonus items to ocd collector friends.


along with that, they're just generally pretty fucking shit when it comes to their releases, they rarely restock their physical editions, they sometimes will include some random goodie that is random with each copy of the game, and yeah, they try to pass games they publish as their own.


they're super anti-consumer, and usually fuck over the devs they work with.

>why do you hate the most horrible scumbags in the industry who raised to prominence by exploiting others and have never done anything good
Jee I dont know anon


They basically cancelled 90's Super GP and refused to refund the kickstarter money by claiming that the game will "Be out sometime this year" even though nobody originally involved with the project is working on it. (The lead game designer and creator went and made that one Beat'Em Up "The Takeover", for example.)


They relentlessly fuck over devs, fuck over consumers, lie through their teeth, buy up cult darlings and rape them for every penny, and get away with it all because they're a "small" company that isn't a blip on the radar. They are absolute filth.

Well yeah, if you lie and cheat and steal while doing the bare minimum you can absolutely coast so long as your products have enough strength as a brand. They live on Cave Story sales.


Your heard it from everyone else by now. I could've gotten BOI on Switch on sale for 20, but I still went to GameStop for a 34 dollar used copy so they wouldn't get money. They aren't just bad, they're literally fun-size EA.


They fucking teased a radiant silver gun and possible physical edition and nothing ever came of it.


they fundamentally destroyed cave story and its entire legacy for all eternity forever.
the literal definition of why indie is now just a buzzword, they arent a small team at all, they are a fucking bussiness with lots of employers and only use well known names just to get a quick cash.

Absolute fucking cancer.

Why the fuck does Nicalis have to delay a game 3 months
>Doesn't even have anything to do with text. Japanese release already has English support.
>>Nicalis delays games so they can order a bunch of dumb shit to shove inside the physical releases. And the trick is, that only certain copies will contain certain things, so I'm sorry if you wanted that Kawase keychain, it wasn't in your specific copy of the game

 It's astonishing how people still willingly sign contracts with Nicalis.
>they're probably the easiest to get in contact with over publishing compared to other companies and they usually guarantee a physical release of the games as well. it sounds enticing at first glance, but they never know the dangers. At least the Bit.Trip guys knew to make sure they'd still own their franchise when they signed to work with Nicalis.
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I pray that the Save Me Mr Tako dev got a good contract. He is very young and clearly just needed help with his 1-man passion project
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>FOURTY Fucking American Dollars for Isaac on Switch, even digital without their exclusive day-1 pogs and slap bracelets
I will never not be laughing about this.
>>>knowing Nicalis the Tako dev not only lost the rights to his own game, but he also somehow owes them money for it.

>nicalis
Fuck NO
Ill have to import the JP version, god fucking dammit.
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This is me when it comes to NISA games.

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That's the Iji dev isn't it? Which game did they work on with Nicalis?
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He works at ludosity. Nicalis published one of their games and then just completely disappeared. The switch version has exclusive content that they want to bring to the PC version, but they have to go through nicalis to do it, but nicalis suddenly cut off all contact for no reason so now the extra content is stuck on the switch version.


EA doesn't claim to have developed your game in all promotional material/in manuals. They also don't send your game out to die quietly whenever they don't get enough pre-orders.

 Buy the physical copy off Amazon Japan. Don't give Nicalis any of your money.

Anywho, hopefully other indie developers in the future learn to stay away from Nicalis and let them rot and die.