Yashiro Wada Interview

Are you satisfied with the level of sales for No More Heroes on Wii? Do you still feel the Wii as an appropriate platform for gamer- oriented games?
I am satisfied with the sales of the Wii version to a point, but I don’t think that it really proves the limits of Wii. Monster Hunter Tri is selling well on the Wii after all, but we just are not able to create that kind of content at the moment. To be clear, I’m not admitting defeat. I am constantly striving to ever make better games.



Why have you given the development of these ports to Feelplus instead of Grasshopper Manufacture?
GHM is focusing on No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle, and I’ve heard that they have another big project in the works, but I don’t know any details. Personally, I’d rather GHM create a brand new original title than a remake. Also, Feelplus has experience working on next-gen systems with Lost Odyssey, so that's another reason I’m confident they can provide a high-quality remake. By the way, Suda 51 will be involved in this project in the role of creative consultant.

The original game was focused on the use of the Wii Remote. How are you going to adapt that central design to the standard controls of PS3 and 360? Have you considered the newly announced motion controllers, like 360's Natal?
Well, since the concept for the remake is to bring the game to a wider audience, we aren’t currently considering to use uncommon new technology. Basically everything will be controlled using the analog controller. We are reworking the control scheme to improve the sense of being in the game.



What challenges has making those ports presented? Are you planning to make use of their network features?
Since we are remaking an SD game into an HD game, most of the models, graphics, and textures are being remade from scratch. In the future, if we are able to put out something truly new in the future, we’d like to include in-depth online functions.

Ubisoft, which published the original No More Heroes outside Japan, has already made clear it won’t be publishing these remakes overseas.
I think what Ubi announced was that it intends to focus on promoting No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle. NMH is currently our only HD title, but Ubi has a number of strong titles, so I don’t think it was a foregone conclusion. Thinking about the game’s vision, I would say that even though we have confidence in the game, I’ll leave it up to the end users to decide what they think the vision is.

gamingeek said:

Ravenprose said:

gamingeek said:

Raven I didn't get the rest of your letters, just the mush items thanks.

Well, that sucks. I sent the last of my letters to you the day after I sent you those mush items. You should have received them by now. They contained over 400,000 bells and my lucky clover. I suppose they were lost somehow. Yup, chalk another reason to hate that game.

Did you delete your save file before it had time to send the items? Maybe you have to open your gate for the items to be sent. Damn it sucks.

Ravenprose said:

gamingeek said:

Holy poop! Batman AA 360 on zavvi for Hobo price £18, Boom Blox Bash Party for £10 but I cannot remember my password and the password reminder wont work!

Fuck.

The password reminder didn't work so I typed in a few variations and it went and suspended the account. Fable 2 was £13 too

Couldn't you have the site email your password to you?

It didn't work. I just got off the phone with them, they have none of my details. WTF? So the guy on the phone says to create a new account. I try online and it says the email is already in use. Yeah, because its me fuckers! So I check my email spamguard and find the password reset there. But that doesn't excuse the mancunian dolt on customer services.

I got Arkham asylum, Fable 2, GTA IV Liberty city stories and Boom Blox Bash Party. Zavvi is awesome, mirrors edge is £8, DMC4 is £12, Borderlands £18 etc.

edgecrusher said:

The assamassina avatars!!!

Leo is in love with Matt you see, so they are there to make him happy.

That's gay.

Archangel3371 said:

Ah I was wondering what the deal was with these new 360 game cases. I first noticed it with Dragon Age and thought it was just EA being cheap. Then noticed it with Modern Warfare 2. It's cool there thinking about the environment but I worry about something punching a hole through the cover. I treat my stuff with kid gloves though so that will likely never happen.

Yep, nothing like looking after then enviroment by selling plastic discs in cardboard that runs on power consuming metal and plastic consoles!

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Famitsu scores

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3/Xbox 360, Activision): 10 / 10 / 9 / 10 - (39/40)
World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 (PS2, Konami): 8 / 7 / 7 / 7 - (29/40)
Tales of Graces (Wii, Bandai Namco): 9 / 9 / 9 / 9 - (36/40)
Winning Eleven PlayMaker 2010 (Wii, Konami): 9 / 9 / 8 / 9 - (35/40)
Toshinden (Wii, Takara Tomy): 6 / 6 / 5 / 6 - (23/40)
Samurai Spirits Sen (Xbox 360, SNK Playmore): 7 / 6 / 6 / 7 - (26/40)