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Title: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: MKKhanzo on April 09, 2014, 03:32:11 PM
Good long Interview (Didnt saw it posted here)

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-04-03-unfinished-symphony-castlevanias-keeper-speaks (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-04-03-unfinished-symphony-castlevanias-keeper-speaks)
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: beingthehero on April 09, 2014, 04:34:28 PM
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"We all loved Fire Emblem at the time and, of course, we wanted to make games, not software, so we interpreted the instruction as a brief to make a business-themed Fire Emblem game."

That is beautiful. Wonderful interview, by the way. I wonder which member of Rondo's team was his wife? It's also cool that the ruined Japanese castle was sort of his genesis towards this whole thing.
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: Charlotte-nyo:3 on April 09, 2014, 05:29:53 PM
That's a great in-depth interview. So often game developer interviews don't try to go that far back to delve into the past experiences of the developers that they're interviewing (when pertinent) or often times they aren't able to ask the right questions to get them there. That interview definitely goes further than most.
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: GuyStarwind on April 09, 2014, 07:09:31 PM
Iga liking FE just made my day
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 09, 2014, 11:14:17 PM
I love this interview. Finally, we have some insights on what he was doing when he was young.
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: LuxKiller65 on April 20, 2014, 06:16:26 PM
I'm curious who his wife is? And is she still working at Konami?

If so, he will be able to steal information on the upcoming Castlevania games hehe.
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on April 20, 2014, 09:34:54 PM
Great article, lots of cool insight.  Inspires hope for a future 'spiritual successor' (of Fate?) to the series.

It bothered me that the article had grammar mistakes and got Keiji Inafune's name wrong... but still a great read.
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 20, 2014, 09:45:11 PM
I'm curious who his wife is? And is she still working at Konami?

If so, he will be able to steal information on the upcoming Castlevania games hehe.

She is one of the people who worked in RoB. We don't know her name.
I don't think she is still working at Konami since it is the norm during that era that women leave the company when they start to have children. But I might be wrong.

If Konami still is backing Castlevania. As far as I know, in the Konami Style Japan site, Castlevania is already relegated to a lower position on the game titles list.
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: Nagumo on April 21, 2014, 07:01:37 AM
She is one of the people who worked in RoB. We don't know her name.
I don't think she is still working at Konami since it is the norm during that era that women leave the company when they start to have children. But I might be wrong.

I looked up every female staff member of Rondo because reasons. I found:

Tomoko Sano and Reika Bando. I may have missed a few.
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: Dominus on April 21, 2014, 09:03:58 AM
I looked up every female staff member of Rondo because reasons. I found:

Tomoko Sano and Reika Bando. I may have missed a few.

Now we just have to look up which one looks like Shanoa  :P
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: Koutei on April 21, 2014, 07:46:08 PM
According to the interview (AoS, LoI) which I looked at before, his wife has already resigned the video game industry.
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: Shiroi Koumori on April 21, 2014, 10:37:20 PM
I looked up every female staff member of Rondo because reasons. I found:

Tomoko Sano and Reika Bando. I may have missed a few.

I found out that Reika worked in SotN. Then nothing after.
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/reika-bando/credits/developerId,48250/ (http://www.mobygames.com/developer/reika-bando/credits/developerId,48250/)
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: Nagumo on April 22, 2014, 01:37:46 AM
Tomoko also left Konami. She has her own website:

http://www.crystalsound.jp/ (http://www.crystalsound.jp/)

The answer is probably on IGA's Facebook, by the way.  :P
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: Abnormal Freak on April 22, 2014, 01:57:49 AM
IGA is Facebook friends with SUDA51. Collaboration, pleez.
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: beingthehero on April 22, 2014, 04:44:41 AM
The answer is probably on IGA's Facebook, by the way.  :P

He just has it as 'married' but not to whom.
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on April 22, 2014, 05:34:09 AM
Unless I get a JPN-spelled name, I probably won't be able to catch whether his wife is friends with him on FB anyway.
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: Nagumo on April 22, 2014, 07:58:08 AM
I remember seeing a picture on his wall with someone who was most likely his wife eating in a restaurant.
Title: Re: Unfinished symphony: Castlevania's keeper speaks (IGA interview)
Post by: darkmanx_429 on April 22, 2014, 09:34:48 AM
That was a great read! Reading stuff like that for me is motivational!