So here’s the heads up - we just posted an in-depth interview with Yoshiki Okamoto on Gamasutra yesterday - and it’s honestly one of the best and most insightful profiles we’ve run in a while, especially good because Okamoto was the force behind Capcom for so many years and rarely speaks on the record in this depth.
As we noted in the intro: “Okamoto was a 20-year veteran of Capcom, creating titles such as Time Pilot, 1942, and Street Fighter II, and also ran independent developer Flagship (Zelda, Resident Evil titles), before going on to create Genji and Folklore developer Game Republic in 2004.”
Anyhow, the complete piece itself is awesome, and covers a massive gamut of subjects, from Okamoto’s dissatisfaction with Game Republic’s outlook to date (!) to his concerns over the DS market.
But we have a special, GameSetWatch-exclusive excerpt that you CANNOT READ ANYWHERE ELSE. Mainly because it’s silly, […]
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