"I think the Pacific theater of World War II is a interesting topic," he said. "I think it would be cool to work with an American developer and do a game based on the Pacific Theater.Serious historical commentary pushing the envelope on what is still a sensitive topic in Japan, or giant robots from Planet Japan attacking the Pearl Harbor moon base. I mean, either way that sounds awesome, but somebody so undevoted to the idea of a Flags/Letters pair of games ("if" it's politically charged?) is probably not the man for the job.
"I think it would be cool to do something like what Clint Eastwood is doing for that time period," he added, referencing Flags Of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima which shows both sides of the war.
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If it turned out that a Japanese developed game about World War II was "too politically charged," Itagaki said he might want to explore the same issues in a game set in space.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Oh, videogames
Attention whore Tomonobu Itagaki (designer of ninja action game Ninja Gaiden and breast physics simulator Dead or Alive), quoted on Kotaku:
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I don't see any problem with large breasted space Japanese bombers attacking large breasted space Pearl Harbor.
Itagaki is a funny guy, but his breast physics are really overrated. Tecmo attacked back at him, saying that he made it too much about him, which is funny because they had been pushing him out there as the face of their company for years. Personally, I think that the worker bees are overrated. Does anybody talk about who programmed Donkey Kong? No, because it didn't matter. The lower level people are just workers with narrowly defined skill sets, but great gaming needs an Itagaki, Miyamoto, Iga, Suda51, or a Kojima.
By the way, welcome back to blogging!
hey the mother 3 english translation patch came out today!
http://mother3.fobby.net/
--r
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