Excellent and informative interview! We could use more composer interviews on gaming sites in general.

The game was bloody hell, right?

I wish Sony didn’t stop selling PS4 consoles to focus on PS5 production, because now I cannot find a PS4 locally. With the PS5 shortages, Sony might have been able to generate additional PS4 sales. Sony probably would have done just that if it weren’t for the chip shortage.

IPPO nailed the mood of sci-fi game with that opening song. The low guitar riffs for the first few seconds told me something ominous was afoot. If I hear those initial notes, I can pretty much guess it is Phantasy Star IV.

Invincibility probably doesn’t save you from falling into pits though, and there are plenty of those in Ghosts n’ Goblins and Ghouls n’ Ghosts.

I’m sure that if invincibility is activated, you probably will be put into a different ranking list for comparing scores.

I also wish this had a physical release, like the Sega…

This is the same Nintendo who cancelled the contract for development of Nintendo shows on Netflix over a media leak. One would think Nintendo would have leverage over Universal here. Not to mention, Nintendo is a Japanese company and could have petitioned the local government to delay opening.

Yes, it’s possible…

In the Japanese version of the game, “Sherlock Holmes” was the actual name of the Sherlock Holmes character (in Japanese phonetics). Even in the Japanese Ace Attorney games, character names would also be puns, but not in Sherlock Holmes’ case. So, I think the change in the English version was to dodge copyright.

Your link to the Kickstarter page points to here instead:

Hold it!

The copyright of Sherlock Holmes is sort of in the public domain.

In 2014, a federal judge ruled against the Doyle estate in Klinger vs. Conan Doyle Estate. Only 10 works are still in copyright in the U.S. In the U.K., all the stories are public domain. If anybody used material of Holmes from the remaining…

I think Nintendo hasn’t gone after the translation, because they know they don’t have any real legal standing. It’s a translation of the script that requires the game ROM to patch. Nintendo is more likely to after places that host the ROMs illegally than litigate the script.

Is this number significant in the Nier lore or just a red herring?

If we consider these Super Mario Legos to be 8-bit, then the palette-swapped Luigi makes sense.   heh

I don’t know how game production works, but if it works like the movie industry, then these losses can be used to reduce tax liability. It worked for Uwe Boll on his movies. (I vaguely recall reading somewhere about how Germany treated losses on movies, and he made “failed” movies with shareholders “investing” in…

Memory can become a bit fuzzy and unreliable after many, many years away from the project. In this case, the developers probably just mixed up D1 and D2 in a benign way.  In malicious scenarios, it turns into gaslighting.

If this was big news, somebody like Jason Schreier would have broken the story with better, multiple sources. It really depends if CFTN has a track record of nailing these stories that Bloomberg’s other writers are sourcing.

I agree with the commenters here that SE’s western studios would be in danger of being sold off…

If it wasn’t for adding back the missing content from the PS1 version, I’d skip Saga Frontier.  Every time Square Enix does this particular type of graphics smoothing, the game is always destined for the mobile platform.  Dragon Quest I , II, and III and a few other games have this type of graphic smoothing.  The…

Got beaten to it by RogueIndy.

Is this the “The Dress” optical illusion redux?

Donald Duck: Total War

That might explain the release of Robotech: The Macross Saga HD edition recently on Nintendo Switch. It may be Harmony Gold trying to increase brand awareness for Robotech (and maybe earn some money to fund the projects you mentioned).