“Yaiba takes place in the Ninja Gaiden world, but it’s its own separate thing. We are not planning on just bringing the Ninja Gaiden system and putting a different coat of paint on it and calling it Yaiba,” said Yosuke Hayashi.

“We’re still wholeheartedly considering how to or whether or not we can make that title work at the moment. The game is actually extremely text-heavy, and it functions on the expressive power of its text and language.”

“Right now we are just really focused on getting Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge out, but we do want as many people as possible to experience that challenge and that fun. So having that on other platforms we’re working on that idea.”

“While the game was in reality one of the easiest/least stressful games I’ve worked on in a while, I did have one thing happen that was pretty amusing and, in grand Mike02(?) fashion, had happened to me before.”

“I think we really did hit the very high-level top-line characters—past, present and future—from the PlayStation universe. There probably is a character or franchise out there that we didn’t hit this time around, but we are doing DLC for the game.”

“I also HIGHLY recommend assigning two characters healing/support duties. I went with a traditional healer for spells and an assassin for item use due to their wide range and high turn rate. “

“As the game deals a lot with words, we decided to go with a storybook approach. In stories, words are everything – words give life to the world and give meaning to actions. So what if all worlds are essentially made up of words?”

We talk to producer Yoshifumi Hashimoto about the Vita version of Muramasa: The Demon Blade and if Marvelous AQL will fix the game’s dry localization.

“We want to keep the quality of the IP high, so our thought is to focus on a certain type of gameplay and be selective on the platforms we develop for. We are focusing on Ragnarok Odyssey as a series, that kind of fast action gameplay.”

Kotaro Uchikoshi talks moving from 2D to 3D, on the future of visual novels, and his other upcoming projects.

PaRappa was a fast runner in the capture the flag game. Sweet Tooth from Twisted Metal was a defender and Kratos from the God of War series was a mid-range attacker. This prototype was coming together, but development switched to a fighting game.

Director, Kotaro Uchikoshi, gives his thoughts on designing characters and how he, as a writer, focuses more on plot rather than on characters.

We talked to Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo about bringing The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Second Chapter to PlayStation Network and asked what’s going on with the English version.

Genius Sonority president, Manabu Yamana, tells us about his company and his solution for staying competitive in an increasingly challenging games market.