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Is Story Important For Japanese Role Playing Games? Ask This Lady

Brian Ashcraft May 27, 2010 7:00 PM

Miwa Shoda joined Squaresoft, now Square Enix, in 1995 and went on to write Japanese Legend of Mana and Final Fantasy XII. Those are big games with big stories — something that they apparently do not need.

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