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First Look At Goichi Suda’s New Game
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Goichi Suda, perhaps best known for Wii series No More Heroes, has been hard at work on a PS3 title. Dubbed Kurayami, the game is based on the writings of Franz Kafka. More »
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Suda Plays Waaaayyyy Too Much Burnout Paradise
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | You may know Goichi Suda as Suda51. Or the guy who came up with Killer 7, and No More Heroes. But you may not know that he’s also a complete Burnout Paradise fiend. An addict. More »
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Grasshopper Manufacture’s PS3 Title Is “Risky”
2:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Grasshopper Manufacture, the developer behind Wii franchise No More Heroes, is working on a PS3 game — perhaps that rumoured Kafkaesque title? Who knows? President of Marvelous Interactive, Yasuhiro Wada, does. More »
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No More Heroes 2 Brings Double The Beam Katana Action
1:00PM Brian Ashcraft | More No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle info. The game got an oh-so-brief teaser announce at last year’s Tokyo Game Show. This week’s Famitsu adds a few more details. More »Flower, Sun, and Rain Hits Europe In October
12:20AM Mike Fahey |Masafumi Takada on Music, Games, and Inspiration
5:30AM Maggie Greene | Gamasutra has a great interview up with Masafumi Takada, best known for his work on the Grasshopper Manufacture games killer7 and No More Heroes and contributor on projects ranging from Super Smash Bros. Brawl to Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. The interview covers a ton of ground, from what it’s like to work with Goichi Suda to Takada’s work on Samurai Champloo to his theory on composing for games: More »
Suda Wants to Make Xbox 360 Games For Your American Love
12:40AM Brian Ashcraft | 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] More »
No More Heroes Could Have Rocked The 360’s World
3:20PM Luke Plunkett | No More Heroes is shaping up to be one of the biggest games for the Wii this year. Thing is, it wasn’t always going to be that way. When first coming up with the idea of a sandbox-styled action game, creator Goichi Suda figured it’d be best suited to the 360, not the Wii. Makes sense, it would have looked better and they could have crammed more stuff in there. But then along came the Wii. Originally, I’d wanted to make this game for Xbox 360, actually. [Marvelous Interactive boss] Wada-san had information about the new Wii and how the new controller would work before it came out, so that’s why he thought I should produce the game on that format. At the time, I didn’t really understand why, but after seeing and understanding how it works, I think it was a good choice and the controller works really well with the game. From what I’ve played I wouldn’t say it worked really well, but yeah, it works well. Definitely one of the more appropriate games on the console when it comes to motion control. No More Heroes began life on 360, says developer [MCV] More »
“Third Party Wii Games Aren’t Selling”
4:38PM Brian Ashcraft | 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? Third Party Wii Games Aren’t Selling [CVG via Games Radar] More »
