[Nieuws] Geschreven door Theun op 2007-10-25 19:42:34
Ninja Gaiden interview
Een interview met Itagaki. De site Kikizo heeft een interview gehouden met Itagaki, de man achter de Ninja Gaiden-serie. In het zeer uitgebreide intreview wordt veel gesproken over Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword voor de Nintendo DS en Ninja Gaiden 2 voor de Xbox360. Er wordt een hoop verteld over de nieuwe Ninja Gaiden voor de DS, maar het belangrijkste is dat we onder andere leren dat de game al 50% af is en dat online-mogelijkheden er wel degelijk in kunnen gaan zitten. Hieronder een aantal fragmenten, met daar weer onder de link naar het volledige interview. [QUOTE]Kikizo: First of all, about how far along is Ninja Gaiden DS in development? Itagaki: Around 50% or so. Kikizo: The DS has wi-fi capabilities; are you going to use that in any way? Itagaki: Yeah, we'll have an online time attack, like a leader-board, so you can compete with other people. [confers with Saito] Right now we're thinking about how you'll be able to enter in your name for the leader-boards so people will recognize you. And I think we should have flags too, like we had in previous Ninja Gaidens for leaderboards, so you can see at a glance... The very first game we did it was Dead or Alive Ultimate, which was the first online fighting game. So basically you could look at the rankings or people who were playing and immediately tell their nationality. You know, just good natured fighting. Now everyone's copied that idea. That's fine; I'm happy for everyone to copy that if they think it's a good feature, but at the time it was against Microsoft's regulations to do that, so we had to break that barrier. They were worried about people who didn't want to select their own flag, they said it would put undue pressure on people who chose not to have a flag. And so what I did is I included the United Nations flag instead, you know, "This should be good enough, right?" And then they said "Oh, OK, that works." Kikizo: World peace through martial arts. Itagaki: Yes. Kikizo: So, there is a new female character in this game... Itagaki: [in English] Yeah, of course. Kikizo: Can you reveal any details about her? Itagaki: She's really cute. Very cute! So this is kind of the third female ninja character that we've done, after Kasumi and Ayane. Kasumi and Ayane of course are beautiful girls that are done in three dimensions, right? But this new character named Momiji is done through 2D illustrations. But I think that the sense of beauty that you get from seeing her in the illustrations is equal to Kasumi. But this is the first time I've said anything like this since we started Team Ninja. Kikizo: You said you wanted to make a touch action game for the DS. What do you think at the moment are the best action-based, non-fruit-picking-based games on the DS? Itagaki: You're a good guy! [laughs] Kikizo: Thank you...![/QUOTE]
Gekoppelde games
Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword (Nintendo DS)