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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Grasshopper’s Goichi Suda (51) is pretty comfortable making violent games, like bloody light saber fest No More Heroes (a slap in the face to most fiction/reality when burns tend to cauterise wounds, but we digress). So he was recently asked by Nintendo Official Magazine UK if he’d consider making titles for a younger crowd. And that’s when his eyes turned red and pupils the darkest black of night…
I want to make a Super Mario game for adults…Maybe Mario could wear an Italian suit and have a machine gun…But Nintendo probably wouldn’t like that idea.
And somewhere in the distance, amongst the shadows and debris blowing in the wind, you could hear Miyamoto weeping. Softly.
With a gun. Suda wants to make ‘Mario with guns’ [CVG] [image]
Goichi Suda is known for his quirky, cel shaded games like Killer 7 and No More Heroes — both appearing on Japanese hardware. But Suda’s ready to expand his game developer wings and try something different. Says Suda: This originality will always remain, but I also want us to challenge ourselves by working at making realistic visuals as well. The next title will have a very different style, but keep the Grasshopper feeling at the same time… The Xbox 360. Definitely, I want to develop on this platform. It is really easy to work with. It is also quite popular outside Japan on markets that I would like to aim at. Specifically, I think of the American market as the Major League — I would like to go there and be successful.
We’re sure that’d make some American Xbox 360 owners very, very happy. Suda51 Interview [Next Generation]
No More Heroes creator Goichi Suda says third party Wii games aren’t selling. He should know! Even though it faired well critically, nobody in Japan bought his game. (Well, not nobody.) What does Suda think of developing for the Wii? This:
Whilst the sales weren’t as high as I hoped, other titles for Wii aren’t selling so well either. Only Nintendo titles are doing well. This isn’t just because of the current situation in Japan, as this is happening outside Japan… Actually I was very surprised about the reality about Wii, because before I was making this game, I wasn’t expecting that Wii would be a console targeted only for non-gamers. I expected more games for hardcore gamers. The reality is different to what I expected.
Does that means the No More Heroes sequel will be on a “hardcore” consoles — say, the Xbox 360 or PS3?
Last time I caught up with Goichi Suda, dude was pumped about the impending release of No More Heroes. He also said that he and Grasshopper Studios were at work on an Xbox 360 game, which we still know absolutely nothing about. But after that? More No More Heroes, of course: I’m really willing to make a sequel version – and right now I’m asking if it can be made…I think No More Heroes is a great game, there’s no other action game like it for the Wii. If it was a band, it would be really energetic, like the Arctic Monkeys.
Um…OK! While the game’s done quite poorly in Japan, and we’ve yet to get our hands on a finished copy, if you’re interested the latest issue of Edge gave it 9/10, so maybe he’s onto something. SUDA-51: I want No More Heroes sequel [GameSpot]
