“In the beginning, Bravely Default was an action RPG. We switched to a traditional JRPG style by selecting commands and without action,” Takehiro Terada, president of Silicon Studio explained.

Behind the scenes, parts of AAA video games and in the case of Alice: Madness Returns and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World are fully made in China. Since this topic hasn’t been discussed Siliconera decided to explore it and find out how games are developed there.

Since Armored Core doesn’t have popular characters, From Software relies on customization options for their mecha fighting series. Siliconera spoke to Armored Core producer Toshifumi Nabeshiba about making an identifiable character for the mecha series.

“We actually heard every time we ask people what would you like to see redone again and Ducktales has come up a lot. It took a little bit of luck going back and forth for years with us pitching it and them pitching it to get the product together to really make sense.”

Set in the near future, you play as an executioner who has to kill other criminals. In this interview, we asked director Goichi Suda about the kind of character Mondo Zappa is, who he has to kill, and how the game flows.

Pandora’s Tower director Toru Haga tells us about the creepy merchant Mavda, the world of the game, and more.

On-hand to talk about Tales of Xillia and also provide a demo was Hideo Baba, the producer of the Tales of series since day one.

“We wanted to switch the fight style with this game mainly because we want to differentiate it from our other games like Mortal Kombat. We didn’t want people to play Injustice and think it’s basically a reskinned Mortal Kombat.”

Yui Tanimura, one of the directors on Dark Souls II, spoke with Siliconera about the character you play as, the game’s difficulty, and filling Hidetaka Miyazaki’s shoes.

Additionally, we also asked Atlus USA why the Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha games were reprinted instead of being released as PS2 Classics.

The game is early in development and doesn’t have a title yet, but Siliconera was able to sit down with Grasshopper Manufacture CEO Goichi Suda and GungHo Online Entertainment’s CEO Kazuki Morishita to talk about the title.

We’ve talked a lot about bringing Japanese games to the West on Siliconera. Localizing online enabled Korean games is an entirely different process.

Capcom and developer WayForward made some tweaks to DuckTales for DuckTales Remastered, but the biggest change is probably the story.

At GDC, executive producer Brian Miller gave us a couple of examples of references older fans might smile at.

Muramasa Rebirth a new localization plus downloadable characters like the Nekomata that each have their own storyline. Siliconera met with producer Yoshifumi Hashimoto from Marvelous AQL who explained what these new characters are like.

This happened kind of quietly, so you may not have heard Arc System Works opened up a US division earlier this month. We spoke with Minoru Kidooka, President of Arc System Works, about the US branch.