Chris Buffa (Modojo): Over the past couple of years, we've seen Square Enix release a slew of classic games from its celebrated catalogue, such hits as the original Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger, all three of which are RPGs. Although we expected as much (the company practically defined the role-playing genre), there's more to Square Enix than health potions and job systems. That said, it would be great to see the publisher dig a little deeper and bring some of the more obscure games to iOS and Android, and today, we request Einhander.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.
Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
Square Enix will be releasing three new manga titles later this year, all of which are available for pre-order now.
oh man, i LOVED this game on ps1. i'd love to see it come to mobile
Can they please just release this on psn already.