Yasuhiro Wada (Harvest Moon) and Yoshiro Kimura (Little King’s Story) joined the No More Heroes developer about a year ago. Now, they’ve apparently left. Kotaku‘s following up. [Siliconera]
Earlier this year, Tokyo-based Grasshopper Manufacture snagged Akira Yamaoka of Silent Hill fame from Konami. This month, it also signed two more “name” developers.
The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 port of No More Heroes won’t take advantage of new motion control schemes for those respective platforms, according to Marvelous Entertainment head honcho Yasuhiro Wada, condemning Travis Touchdown to an analogue control fate.
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.
Speaking with RPGFan, Marvelous Interactive boss Yasuhiro Wada was asked whether the Japanese publisher of Harvest Moon, No More Heroes and Project O was thinking of opening a US branch (they currently farm out publishing duties: NMH, for example, is being published in the US by Ubisoft). Wait, thinking? Oh, they’re doing more than thinking. They’re doing: Of course. We have already set up MMV USA in North America. At present stage it is not functioning as a publisher, but it will begin its activities in the near future.
Expect Marvelous games to be released more often and on time once MMV USA opens its doors. And that’s about the best late Christmas present a lot of you are going to get this year. RPGFan Exclusive Interview #5: Yasuhiro Wada [RPGFan, via GSW]
Yasuhiro Wada is best known for cult hit barnyard RPG Harvest Moon. But he’s also busy running Marvelous Interactive! You’d think a guy who’s had creative and business success would be content. Wada still has things he’d like to do — grand plans if you will. Plans that include a Spore-like game. Wada explains:
Eventually, I’d like to make something like Spore, where you create something, and from there, new stuff is going to be created again and again and again. In a micro world, like The Sims for example, you have the city expanding but you can’t see it. But you want to be one of the people living in the city, and to be a part of this growing too.
Isn’t that what Harvest Moon is? Or is he saying he wants to make infinite Harvest Moon? Wada Interview [Gamasutra]
