really appreciate how itagaki alternates between lying to himself and speaking in riddles like the world’s least efficient sphinx

Tomonobu Itagaki: "I'm a mathematician but I'm not good at counting." Now that's a quote for the ages.

''I'm a mathematician but i'm not good at counting.'' The numbers don't lie! and they spell disaster for you!-Scott Steiner

"I'm a mathematician but I'm not good at counting." Now that doesn't add up, does it? I'll see myself out.

when a studio doesn't make money off games, it does off laundring money from tax evasion

I have a very hard time believing someone who says, "our employees are happy, and you can tell that with this picture of them smiling."

Devil's Third is when Mr Clean finally snaps.

Itagaki after seeing reviews: I'm tired of this, everyone betray me. I'm fed up with this world!

Wait a minute. That Tomonobu fellow looks familiar.... ... Holy shit, I met that guy! I was serving drinks at the Ninja Gaiden 2 launch party. He took a particular liking to my chunky jewelry. He himself had about a kilo of metal and jewels on his own fists. He never removes those glasses and generally walked around like a movie star. He wanted "Brrack Co-fee". I'd love to say we had a good chat, but his English (and my Japanese) were almost entirely lacking.

They opened up a studio in Vancouver? That is now their HQ?? I turned to my husband and said "THAT'S money laundering."

This reminds me of the time I worked for gamestop. We were always forced to get people to preorder, so we proposed any kind of titles coming out, but I have the dubious achievement of having convinced a dude to preorder Devil's Third (it was the only copy preordered in our store and on launch day we got 2 copies total). I'm sorry dude, I swear I didn't know what I was getting you into

“Is this bathroom?” “I pee anyway. Everywhere is bathroom for Ivan.”

Matt best put on his winter clothes, he’s gonna have to prepare for a sad and cold, Blizzard.

1:44 never mind about Itagaki, how's your sex life? Never change Matt

"In the past I created four unique games; a DOA, Ninja Gaiden, DOA, and Ninja Gaiden... why's everyone looking at me funny?"

"Wha Happun: Jump Force" must happen.

"Maybe Itagaki is vampire?" All I'm saying, man, the Wiseau parallels are uncanny.

"Hey guys, I'm sorry for long absent. See you soon!" was posted to his Facebook page on November 1, 2019. So I guess he's still kicking!

*"My risks were calculated, but man am I bad at math"*

Who would've guessed that weird guy from my recommended tab would become my fave

Yo Matt are you telling me that both Itagaki AND Uwe Boll set up shop in my hometown? We're living in a weird timeline.

9:23 When you're in love with what you do. This is easily the best part of the video.

Tomonobu Itagaki once admitted that he chose Aerosmith for DOA3 because it was the only thing that got him through the depression of the PS2 version of DOA2. I remember thinking "who the hell would care that much about a throwaway bad port" but now I know Itagaki is a very special kind of person .

It's like the guy was so fucking weird his aura kept his company afloat while sinking every other one he came into contact with.

It feels like Matt’s delivery is only getting better. It’s got a kind of flow to it.

“I’m a Mathematician but I am not good at counting....”-Itigaki “You have a 66 and 2/3 chance of making a good game. But if you ware a genetic freak like me your chances of game making drastic go up”-Scott Steiner

"How do you feel about the negative reviews Devil's Third received?" "It's all fake news."

Matt, you should do a "What Happened?" episode on Bioshock Infinite. Most people liked it but it apparently went through a long stretch of development hell, with a LOT of changes over its creation cycle. Love your videos Bro!

7:49 That may be the most colorful and disturbing metaphor for the deterioration of THQ as a company I've ever heard in my life.

"I made 4 unique games. Two of them are sequels to the other two." Um... "Unique"?

Despite its failure, the Wii U had many great games. This was not one of them.

Devil's Third & Shenmue 3 is a shining example of great games needs a great team, not just one famous guy This is why Platinum Games works, and Valhalla doesnt

I tested the game for 5 months at NoA redmond and yeah the multiplayer was the better part of the game. Everyone at every level was pissed that they kept delaying the game for “further polish”, pushing the game from sub-1month cert to 5 grueling ones. It was a crazy time in my life to be playing that game for nearly 800 combined hours of work time. With how dead on arrival the game was, it seems like almost no one saw most of the wacky modes, the base building, or clan features. It feels kinda special to be one of a small group of testers to even be aware of content in a game with dead servers like that. (I’m sure tester matt knows the feel, tho.)

"YOU'RE TEARING ME APART PUBLISHERS!"

It's actually impressive he ran a business for so long with no products.

From Nintendo's perspective, Devil's Third could just as easily have been another diamond in the rough like Bayonetta 2. Based on Itagaki's work with Team Ninja the man had some competency in developing video games. IMO Valhalla got too ambitious and started dabbling in a genre with which they had no experience: shooters. I do own a copy of DT and while far from the worst game I've ever played it really isn't fun either. I often wonder how the game might have turned out if Itagaki had just played it safe and made the game more like Ninja Gaiden.

Ho oh. Scott's gonna be real pissed that you dissed Donkey Kong Barrel Blast

The performance issues are because of the same reason Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric: Unreal Engine wasnt officially supported for the Wii U, so developers had to go around a lot of hurdles to make it work.

loosing money and opening companies? he's really a japanese tommy wiseau

made for a good LP though

5:42 out of context, you could've told me this was an early trailer for WET and I would've believed it

Even if it’s about a game I never played or heard of, I’m still super excited to see another episode

Devil's Third: The Adventures of "Rupples Pooples"

Hey everyone, i got an update for Tomonobu "Outmeal Face" Itagaki, he just announced a game...based on the blockchain...and as you can imagine everyone is so "EXCITED" about it!

Ah Devil's Third, my Deadly Premonition, my favourite bad game. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong, genuinely hope Oatmeal Face gets to finish off that trilogy he had planned for this game.

I can't wait for this: Contra: Rogue Corps - What Happened?

when i saw the thumbnail i thought: TOMMY WISEAU MADE THAT THING?? lol

More fun suggestions to rip apart... 1. Action 52 2. Doom (3DO port) 3. Pac Man and E.T. Atari 2600 ports 4. Sega 32X - If you're open to doing consoles, the behind-the-scenes internal disputes between Sega's American and Japanese branches by the mid-90s had a hand to play in this console's doom and the company eventually ditching hardware development all together. 5. Sonic X-Treme - Wonder why the Saturn didn't have its own original Sonic game? Like the 32X, this also had its own behind-the-scenes nightmares that eventually led to its cancellation.

I always loved the rage at Bayonetta 2 being a Nintendo exclusive. Nintendo is literally the reason the game exists at all, but still, BOOOOOOOOOOOO! God, we're dumb. Like, a lot.

Hey!! I really appreciate those ad breaks. Such an easy, welcome and respectful implementation to the viewer and yet so difficult to come by

I appreciate this game for giving us the great Russian hero: Ruples Pooples

The studio could probably stay afloat by selling any extra copies of Devil’s Third it has in storage, seeing as the game is going for $400+ on eBay

I saw the Game Grumps playthrough of Devil’s Third and it’s one of the funniest things ever. Had no idea the game was such a shitstorm behind the scenes. Great video!

I was literally just like "what was that game where Dwayne the Rock Johnson has tattoos that was on ZP once" and then this

Let's take a moment to appreciate the impeccable selection of Battle Arena Toshinden BGM for this video's music.

I don't really care if Itagaki makes any more games, but I definitely want him to do more interviews.

Final fantasy: the spirits within. That is all.

"I'm a mathematician, but I'm no good at counting." Wow, just wow.

The best way to experience Devil's Third is via the Game Grumps' playthrough, where they turn the game into "Rooplepooples's Crazy Adventures".

since postal 4 is looking bright you should talk about postal 3 the game that even RWS disowned

Anyone else coming in late, in 2021 Valhalla was merged with Soleil, who this year released Wanted: Dead, a game which, had anyone bought or played Devil's Third, would probably be described as "a spiritual successor to Devil's Third"

Itagaki even looks like Tommy Wiseau. Like, the resemblance is uncanny.

The multiplayer was awesome,I wish they'd port this over to the switch just for the multiplayer.

"Controller free revolution, that lasted 2 years" my kinect didn't work out of the box let alone 2 years

There'll be a follow-up once it's revealed that Team Ninja was a money laundering front this whole time

I'd love to see the story of how Tatsunoko vs Capcom came to the west. A crossover fighting game where half the cast had never been to the west, done by a studio that was most well known in the west... for Speed Racer, who wasn't even in the game.

You know, “I’m a mathematician but I’m no good at counting” sounds pretty mockable, but it’s surprisingly true to life. Basically everyone in my Mathematics degree program had an inside joke with the same sentiment: the people you can trust least to do simple arithmetic are the people with math degrees. Anyway, you should have done a Tommy Wiseau impression whenever you quoted Itagaki. It would have been hilarious.

"This man is dead. Bang."

Valhalla did make one other game and it was with Nintendo: Momotaro Dentetsu 2017 on 3DS, which only came out in Japan.

So somewhere out there there’s a universe where Saints Row has more games and Guillermo Del Toro has his own game in the 2000s

So he’s mad that Nintendo didn’t force publications to change their initial reviews and because they ended up giving honest reviews he questions the credibility of those reviews? I… what?

Valhalla also developed a train board game called Momotaro Dentetsu for the 3DS. It's a franchise in Japan originally owned by Hudson but Nintendo published that one. It was reasonably big and that probably covered a fair bit of their costs for a while.

Did you just try and shame my Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast?

Holy crap taco someone's full of himself.

Soleil is Valhalla, they had to change their name because of a lawsuit, Itagaki is no longer part of the company as well I believe and is apparently creating games in Italy at least from what he claims on his Facebook.

I have waited so long for you to get to this

As for Wha Happun to Valhalla, it spun off an international branch based in Canada, called Valhalla Games International, which has since bought all IPs and properties of the original Tokyo-based Valhalla and thus effectively subordinated and consumed the original. Then that Valhalla, in turn, was merged by order of its parent company, Hong Kong-based Wake Up Interactive, into Soleil Ltd., another Wake Up Interactive development studio. But then a month before that, Wake Up itself was bought out by Chinese gaming giant Tencent. To summarize, as of last year, Valhalla has effectively ceased to be an independent name. It's now owned by Soleil, which is owned by Wake Up Interactive, which is owned by Tencent. Funnily enough, Itagaki actually wasn't lying when he said he had friends across the world bankrolling him.

Just found this channel and I just wanna say that I appreciate you using Kayin's stage theme at the beginning of this video.

I knew this game would be in trouble when I saw the main characters' visual design. It's the kind of thing that you'd expect would be a piece of concept art in the corner of a muddled page and nothing more.

YOU'RE GOING OUT OF BUSINESS!! YOU'RE GOING OUT OF BUSINESS!! YOU'RE GOING OUT OF BUSINESS!!! EVERYONES GOING OUT OF BUSINESS!!!!

Ivan and Duke Nukem should collaborate...

Here I am, half listening to a year old video in the background, and suddenly I hear Matt swear in Anglo-Québécois at 6:24

Yes! I've been resorting to rewatching old episodes to get my fix. Thanks for a new shot of this great series!

Surprised you didn't mention that he basically left Valhalla from the sound of it to help other developers make games. Like you said I have no idea how they/he survived all this time.

I thought he was exaggerating with the whole Japanese Tommy Wiseau thing. Nope, dude is literally Tommy Wiseau, but as a Japanese game developer.

5:28 I thought that music sounded familiar. Battle Arena Toshinden 2 - Eiji theme. Aaaaaah, the nostalgia. :)

“Medium is favorite cooking of steak.”

0:43 I'm a huge Paper Mario fan who labels the first two games as the highlights of the series, but I still enjoyed Sticker Star (and Color Splash) for what it was. Now, Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash...oh my goodness...

Looked at the title and misread thinking it said "Devil's Turd." That's how I found this channel.

"Rolly Polly"

I love you for randomly throwing Eiji's theme from Battle Arena Toshinden in to your videos. One of the first pieces of video game music I became legitimately obsessed with.

Just passing by to say I love your videos! Instantly subscribed after the first what happun video I saw. Love the humor and quality of your production. Also that intro is life

Nintendo keep trying to play the "WE'RE FOR EVERYONE! WE DO MATURE STUFF ON OUR SYSTEM!" card but honestly they have no clue... and that's okay.

I know I'm super late to the party. But I have to know, you from Montreal, right? Those French swear words just thrown-in here and there are gold. :)

1:47 THANK YOU. SOMEONE ELSE SAID IT. God it's been sitting in the back of my head like an itch for AGES. What a story, Matt.

These videos are great matt! You were always my favorite of the best friends, I'm really glad you landed on your feet. Keep up the great work bud!

I'm surprised you didn't talk about Rockshot that was released on Steam by Soleil. This went extremely under the radar for most people but Rockshot IS Devil's Third Online but as a steam release. I don't even know how I managed to play it when it was available in early access in 2018. It was technically the global release of Devil's Third Online, just under a new name. This game now has also shutdown.

It's kinda weird to see "ads break" when I'm a premium user.

God, that Virtua Cop music was bugging me... I'm searching through my memories trying to put the game scenario together with the track, and I'm like "shooting a buncha suits! Virtua Cop, Saturn version!" Virtua Cop 2, right?

It's pretty clear life was trying VERY hard to make sure this game was not conceived but Itagaki was so damn stubborn that eventually life gave up trying to decided to let the world suffer this mistake.