Interview: Suda, Mikami On The EA Partners Hookup

[When our own Chris Remo went to the EA Partners event late last week, we were figuring maybe to be talking to Tim Schafer. But no - Epic/People Can Fly and, even more unexpectedly, Grasshopper were the two announcements. Since GSW is pretty Suda-friendly, here’s the chat we had with him and producer/Resident Evil supremo Shinji Mikami.]
When Electronic Arts announced two new developers signing to the EA Partners program for independent studios, the more surprising one by far was Grasshopper Manufacture, the Japanese team behind Killer7 and No More Heroes.
Details about the upcoming game — in development for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and Wii — were sparse. Studio founder Goichi Suda, often known as Suda51, described it only as a “mysterious, very unique, horror-packed action game.”
More interestingly still, it is produced by Shinji Mikami, the acclaimed director of games such as Resident Evil, Resident Evil 4, […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back