A continuing thread that has annoyed many gamers and myself is when good games get released after the dev team put everything they have into them, and they sell well, but the publishers or higher-ups put such terrible expectations on them that they are considered “disappointments,” even though they’re far from that. There have been many examples of this over the years, and one that has continually stuck in Nintendo fans’ craws is Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope. This was the second entry in the unique Nintendo/Ubisoft collaboration that was headed up by Davide Soliani.
You’ll remember him from the E3 2017 presentation when the first entry, Kingdom Battle, was debuted, and he was spotted crying on camera because he loved the game he made so much. Soliani has moved on from Ubisoft and has come together with some of his former teammates to make a new studio. However, in a chat with VGC, he did discuss what it meant to hear that Ubisoft considered Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope a “disappointment” despite all they put into it:
As my review will happily point out, they DID make a good game, a great one, even! Soliani...
