While many Japanese developers are desperately trying to appeal to Western gamers, El Shaddai director Takeyasu Sawaki refuses the follow the current trend and plans create a game that “only Japanese people can make.” FACE!
“As a Japanese creator, I want to make something that only Japanese people can make. I don’t want to follow the European people’s way,” he says, which is pretty much what I stated in the first paragraph.Â
Nevertheless, Sawaki wants to appeal to as wide an audience as possible, and believes he knows a thing or two about us fork-tongued roundeyes:Â “… And I think, for example, Americans, or English people, are very straightforward, and they insist their opinions as much as they can. I think that’s very different from the Japanese.”
I hope Sawaki doesn’t mind that I insist my own opinion and say that El Shaddai is looking incredibly hot. I actually have a thing for adapted Bible stories, especially the obscure stuff, and the visuals are fantastic. I think El Shaddai has all the makings of a cult classic, regardless of whether or not it’s a “Japanese” game.Â
El Shaddai Director ‘Doesn’t Want To Follow’ Western Ways [Gamasutra]
While many Japanese developers are desperately trying to appeal to Western gamers, El Shaddai director Takeyasu Sawaki refuses the follow the current trend and plans create a game that “only Japanese people can make.” FACE!
“As a Japanese creator, I want to make something that only Japanese people can make. I don’t want to follow the European people’s way,” he says, which is pretty much what I stated in the first paragraph.
Nevertheless, Sawaki wants to appeal to as wide an audience as possible, and believes he knows a thing or two about us fork-tongued roundeyes: “… And I think, for example, Americans, or English people, are very straightforward, and they insist their opinions as much as they can. I think that’s very different from the Japanese.”
I hope Sawaki doesn’t mind that I insist my own opinion and say that El Shaddai is looking incredibly hot. I actually have a thing for adapted Bible stories, especially the obscure stuff, and the visuals are fantastic. I think El Shaddai has all the makings of a cult classic, regardless of whether or not it’s a “Japanese” game.
El Shaddai Director ‘Doesn’t Want To Follow’ Western Ways [Gamasutra]
