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26 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Arzest's Naoto Ohshima & Square-Enix's Noriyoshi Fujimoto talk Balan Wonderworld famitsu.com/news/202103/26…🇯🇵
they had Youichiro Miyake, a very esteemed AI researcher currently affiliated with Square-Enix, work on the game's "Meta AI" system, which goes beyond dynamic difficulty by attempting to determine the specific playstyle of the player in order to arrange enemy/item placement etc
they also share some broad details on how the Tims (Chao analogues) work, maybe I'll come back to it later if people really need to have it spelled out for them

re: adjusting to post-demo feedback, they basically just spell out what's in the day-one patch, nothing beyond that
there's a lot more in the interview but tbh it doesn't strike me as super interesting, sorry
oh yeah, they also explained the shocking secret behind the name of the Tims:

they took "time" and removed the e

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Shoji Masuda: "the PS3/P/V store's closing this summer…? that means there won't be an easy way for ppl to access Linda Cube, Oreshika or Gunparade March... if I were to produce a no-frills ¥1000 yen port of one of these games for PC & smartphones, which would you want? (poll)"
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24 Mar
Game Watch spoke to the people behind Sega's GO SEGA 60th Anniversary Album & Official Bootleg DJ Mix soundtracks: Yoshihiro "Moba" Ito, Hiroshi "Hiro." Kawaguchi, Yosuke Okunari, Kensaku Nishimura, Tomoya Ohtani & Naofumi Hataya game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/interview…🇯🇵
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re: GO SEGA, Hiro really wanted to include elemeka music, as well as tunes from the laserdisc game Astron Belt, but the hardware's scarce & LD deteriorates over time so they couldn't guarantee a quality recording
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17 Mar
denfami spoke to Namco's Katsuhiro Harada, Arc System Works' Toshimichi Mori and the legendary Yu Suzuki about the heyday of arcades, the histories of Virtua Fighter, Tekken, Guilty Gear & Blazblue and a potential Virtua Fighter 6🇯🇵
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3 Mar
a question for anyone who played Lufia II (ie "Lufia") in Dutch/Spanish/German: how'd they translate this infamous English line from Daos? Image
alright, with help from @Jucksalbe & @Ikari_DC, we have a few more versions of that line:

"koshaku na!"🇯🇵
"¡Bichejos!"🇪🇸
""Du kleiner Wicht!"🇩🇪

...so yeah, "hoochees" seems to have come directly from the Natsume Inc. brains trust, in case that was ever really in question
interesting, thx! I'm curious, what do you think of the overall quality of the Dutch translation? I know specific Dutch localisations weren't at all common back then
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1 Mar
Forever Entertainment's remaking multiple games from an as-yet-unnamed Square-Enix IP (I think? can any Polish pals confirm?) biznes.pap.pl/espi/pl/report…🇵🇱

they've worked with S-E IP before, they made Fear Effect Sedna & are still in the process of remaking Fear Effect iirc
for those not keeping tally: they also did Panzer Dragoon Remake & are currently remaking PD Zwei, and they've announced further remakes for House of the Dead 1 & 2, as well as Magical Drop 6

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
oh and it specifically says Square-Enix Japan so I presume it's not going to be another Eidos game, or Taito or whatever

I wonder, what IP does S-E proper own that they could get multiple remakes from, and that S-E would be willing to license out...
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1 Mar
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