NTE vs Project Mugen: Are They Similar?

With the revelation of Neverness to Everness I've found myself thinking about Project Mugen for a bit so I wanted to talk about these two games and share my thoughts on them...

Neverness to Everness (NTE) Trailer:

Neverness to Everness (NTE) Gameplay Showcase:

Project Mugen Trailer:

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Logo Intro
0:38 - Similarity #1: Open World
1:42 - Difference #1: Movement
2:30 - Similarity #2: Supernatural Settings
3:26 - Difference #2: Special Zone
4:00 - Difference #3: Characters
4:26 - Difference #4: Team Composition
4:34 - Difference #5: Skills
4:51 - Difference #6: Property
4:57 - Difference #7: Time Cycle
5:03 - My Thoughts on NTE
5:25 - How Will NTE affect Project Mugen??
6:33 - Which Game will Perform Better?
7:49 - About ZZZ Similarities
8:27 - Conclusion
9:05 - Endscreen

[iammordant]

3 Things I Think the Devs Should Add to NTE:

In this video you'll hear me say and type out Everless to Neverless instead of EverNESS to NeverNESS

It's a mistake on my end and I apologise. The "Less" comes easier to me than "Ness"

Also note that: While I'm looking at similarities and differences between the two games, I'm not trying to start controversy. Just wanna objectively assess the two while answering a question I had

[DaedLizrad]

NTE feels like GTA meets Paranormal, while Mugen looks like Marvel meets Paranormal... it might really depend entirely on who releases first.

[doedoel]

Great video. Ever since NTE showed up, this question popped up in my head.
I agree with the notion that whoever releases first will be the more popular one. I hope that NTE doesn't share the same fate as ToF, unluckily labelled as Genshin Killer which impacted the game's popularity negatively. Kinda sad that Hotta Studio have to go through this twice.

[tornadoofterror]

Project mugen haven't released gameplay footage that shows their UI and controls
so we don't really knew, does spider swing avaiable on every place or just in certain points/cinematic missions like wuwa? does the fluidity in animation and combat exchanged by making the world smaller and limited with many loading screens?
we can only wait, the last upd from PM is like 1 year ago, i hope they drop something soon.

[talkingtakotaco]

NTE world looks amazing and the travel and exploration is great, but the combat needs to feel faster and snappier imo. Needs more impact.

[saddany]

From the glimpse that they showed, Mugen open world doesn't look anywhere near as immersive as NTE. It's like comparing the inferior spiderman open world (Mugen), with the superior GTA open world (NTE). And no, the reason why it's not because of the spiderman grapple they have, it's the camera, the movement, and the graphic, they just look cheap.

Whereas NTE, the moment I see it, it really does give me that "damn it really is anime GTA" it's like upgraded version of GTA 5, which is utterly crazy from a free gacha game. It really is triple AAA title gacha game, if that make sense. And the fact that it uses the cutting edge UE 5, from Hotta, the leading dev for research and development in perfect world, the first and only gacha dev that implemented RTX into a gacha game (ToF), honestly... Mugen doesn't stand a shred of a chance.

[Yamamoto_Chiko]

*We've almost no information about project mugen, the developers just uploaded 2 small videos in their official channel almost a year ago. Still waiting for some news related to project mugen.* 😭

[Mostima]

I wait for NTE, Mugen's trailer looks nice, but with NetEase behind it, the hopes of it being fun without spending huge amounts of money is pretty damn low. Also Perfectworld got basically all of the best Unreal Developers in china, so NTE is definitely going to have best PC version and it's going to have DLSS and the other things that are becoming standard for AAA games.

[jonathanrodrigues]

Great video! I really wanted to hear more about this topic, especially about project mugen as theres no info on it at all right now

[mememermers]

Haven't heard any news about project mugen for a while now if it just got dropped i might just play NTE, if its still coming out I'd play project mugen over NTE

[Yamamoto_Chiko]

*What is the release date of NTE & Project Mugen?*

[ardee]

At this point in time, may the best urban open world gacha come out first lmao. It's not a matter of which game is better than the other or the similarities. The most important part is who's closer to an actual release, and so far NTE looks much closer to release a game than Mugen.

[mmoairdrop]

if you watch the trailer, you'll realize that NTE is very chaotic, with no clear direction. It has similar issues to ToF. After watching the NTE trailer, I still don't know what the game's style, design direction, and storyline will be like. On the other hand, after watching the Project Mugen trailer, I can clearly see the game's direction. It's much more appealing and interesting compared to NTE if NTE doesn't find its own direction.

[solomonjean]

project mugen and nte are very different from zzz. The open world perspective changes everything

[sanarooh]

It doesn't depend on who comes first
You can even look genshin and tower of fantasy as an example

But from the trailers and gameplay mechanically they seem complete so besides content story writing balances and bug fixes plus additional side content and or changes

I doubt there will be much change but NTE's animations are not as lively and well animated as project Mugen
The animations for characters and cars seems more polished not to mention the special fx, physics and thematic style, they are simply more polished
My only gripe with Mugen would be Netease itself which could bring down the game enough for NTA to get polished meanwhile

And the creators of NTE sure improved in many aspects compared to tower of fantasy
Clearly the passion is shown in both games just one has more experience and polish while also having a dubious backing

[Sirkingx]

Depends which one is more predatory with their gacha system i suppose. Both look great. Leaning more towards NTE at the moment if I had to choose right now.

[aldvier]

I like some of your game interest. I'd like to visit sometimes and see news from you.

[caquita]

Project mugen looks a thousand times better but im gonna try both

[ardee]

Tbh we shouldn't make comparisons, we are not even sure if Mugen is still set to release lmao. But based just by who showed a clear gameplay footage even just for demo purposes I'd place my bet in NTE, I'll just forget about Mugen now 🤣

[alcatraz-nc]

NTE is made by the same studio that made TOF. If you have played TOF for a long time you will notice the similar vibes when it comes to movement and combat but also the UI. If anything NTE looks more like a refined TOF set in another setting than a brand new gacha. Now is it a bad thing ? no not really. However I will just say, TOF also promised a lot of things before its release and on D day well...we all got some surprise. What I am worried about for this game is the monetization and the powercreep, which are the 2 things that really plague TOF. Pretty much every cosmetic or cosmetic changes was locked behind a paywall (or forced you to spend gems ), same for like 95% of the mounts. For some cosmetics you could get it "for free" if you had the gem but the ratio was abysmal (120 gems or 40 premium currency, something along that ratio). Which is a shame really when customizing your character is part of the "mmo" experience.
And then comes powercreep which IMO is one the main reason a lot of people left this game. You always, always have to pull for the new weapon of your element if you wanted to stay relevent or clear new content.

TLDR : NTE feels like a TOF 3.0 with a lot of promise, let's hope it wont be plague with garbage monetization and constant powercreep.