Yoshifuru Okamoto is a producer with Valhalla Game Studios working on Devil’s Third with Tomonobu Itagaki. Along with his producer duties, he also says he is Itagaki’s drinking buddy and bodyguard. Before all that, however, he was on an academic route on the road to be a scholar of classics or an excavation expert in the world of archeology. Instead of all that, he decided to take a video game route and the first game he worked on was 2002’s Rygar: The Legendary Adventure for PlayStation 2.
Chalgyr's Game Room writes:
Some readers probably know that “Rygar” started as a hack & slash arcade game during the eighties and was converted to various machines, including the NES. “Rygar: the legendary adventure” is a version for the PS2, with 3D graphics.
Drew Leachman writes: The From A to Z series lets our editors go back and take a look at games from past generations that are classics, overlooked gems, or just titles they remember fondly. The idea behind this is to pick five games from each letter of the alphabet, once a week to showcase. This delivers 26 weeks and 130 games to talk about. Hopefully it sparks some conversation, and of course plenty of memories.
Our second series will focus on Sony’s sophomore entry into the console business, the PlayStation 2.
Let’s continue with the letter “R”.
Yoshifuru Okamoto describes himself as producer on Devil's Third, but he also serves an important role as Tomonobu Itagaki’s drinking buddy and bodyguard. Game Informer spoke to him at E3 about Devil's Third, a casualty of THQ's collapse which is now a Wii U exclusive. It's the first game Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive director Itagaki is releasing with his new studio, Valhalla Games, and we asked how the the violent shooter ended up as a Wii U exclusive.
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Multiplayer looks AMAZING.
Ahh, reminds me of the TimeSplitters in a way.
Speaking of which, I thought I heard there was going to be a level editor in this game.
If so, consider this game pre-ordered.
EDIT: I just read in the the related links. Well, in my way to pre-order(if it can be, lol)
I'm not the biggest MP fan aside from Crysis 2 but that looks like serious fun, i know alo of people who are buying this game just for that.
IMO it should be a multiplayer only game, because it does look like a lot of chaotic fun, and the offerings are large enough to allow it to sell as a $40 game with only multiplayer.
On the flip side the single player looks like complete garbage.
Im still confused with the multiplayer, like how many players are there online?
There are 16 players online, they said that in treehouse, gamespot and ign interviews.
That's not bad at all. I think that makes Devil's Third the first Wii U exclusive with online games featuring that many players.
Lol. If you skip on games based o who's making them, then you better quit gaming altogether, because there are assholes in the development teams behind 99% of ganes out there. It's just human variety.
You do know that there are OTHER people involved in the making of this game, not just Itagaki, right?
@ALL of you...
Yes, I know other people were involved. And just as soon as they do something WITHOUT Itigaki, I'll consider supporting them. Like Team Ninja. I am NOT going to support that lech just because you say so. Now go laugh about that.
@Linchpin
Besides being a lech? Well there's this...
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Really? Nintendo were truly the only ones who wanted to support the game?
Many of these publishers are going to regret turning down From, Platinum and Valhalla. More and more its like the manufacturers are having to support big independent studios in Japan.
On the plus side, the manufacturers get potentially great IPs and the games being developed exclusively means they will be the best they can taking advantage of the hardware they make them for and not cutting corners.
Perhaps it is really better for the game to have first parties backing them as opposed to third parties. But still, third parties are potentially turning down big franchises by not supporting them.
I'm glad Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are partnering with these companies.
Personally I'm glad Nintendo brought this project back to life. Hopefully this time no one will complain about it like they did with Bayonetta.
Well, Itagaki said they went to different publishers but it was Nintendo that supported their vision the most. So it's possible that other publishers were interested in it, but wanted to take it in a more mainstream direction or something.
I think it was officially announced at E3 2014. It had just kind of been floating around in the ether for awhile after THQ fell apart.
