From what i can understand from google translate, he's working on a new project (perhaps an action game). It's been in development for a year and a half apparently? And it's apparently "orthodox"
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Kenichiro Takaki has left Marvelous! [Up: Is still producer of Senran Kagura series]
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That's pretty great. Cygames is known for throwing a bunch of money at random projects so hopefully this will work out well.
Yeah I just keep getting the same message:
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By 2025 everyone in the Japanese games industry will work for Cygames.
Please, don't try to convince me this series isn't sitting in an uncomfortable zone, lmao. Be honest. I enjoyed playing the original well enough, but don't fool yourself. This is one of those games you don't normally bragged about playing at the cooler
A fictional character has no agency. She is a male fantasy dominatrix no more no less. Or do you believe tons of men don't fetishize sexually aggressive women.
True, this isn't the type of game I would talk at a barbecue, but same goes for a whole bunch of games. I still get a good talking to if my mom catches me playing Call of Duty, and I'm 23. At that point, it is best to drop videogames in the conversation and just talk about Dragon Ball powerlevels with my cousins.
eeeeehhhhh, fiction doesn't always live on an island. Sometimes it contributes to something bigger and lets it grow and fester.
So this entire announcement is pretty weird. First he says he left Marvelous as an employee to seek new challenges - and that new challenge is going to Cygames. Cool, that makes sense, but then the interview further reveals that not only is he still producer of the Senran games, but he has started a new crossmedia project which is game + anime series. It's going to be a traditional hot blooded (action?) title featuring a girl riding a bike-like vehicle. There will be anime and game, and it will be published by....... Marvelous. Not Cygames. Lol.
Cygames x Marvelous?
Cygames x Marvelous?
This is all just part of his masterplan to expand life and hometown to even further reaches. You see, Marvelous by itself just isn't big enough, so part 1 of his plan was to infiltrate Cygames. By part 4, people around the world will be acknowledging life AND hometown as Takaki just laughs to himself every morning when he wakes up.
I am also feeling this will happen, but it is just a hunch tho
I feel like it's more likely than not part of the sweetheart parachute for him to join Cygames was that he gets to keep working as Producer with the initiatives he started at Marvelous.
Yeah but if he was leaving anyway, it makes more sense to bring a new initiative to Cygames right? Then again, apparently this new project has been in the works for a year and a half now, so you might be right about that.
Simply he doesn't abandon ongoing projects.
He works on a console game in cygames but whether the game is already announced one or still unannouned is unknown.
I can imagine Kino shooting herself with that same facial expression she has all the time, while the bike cracks a joke.
If you think that Senran Kagura will stop to be released by Marvelous you're crazy. haha Senran Kagura is pretty much a multimedia project for them, even more because they distribute the anime themselves as they're also an anime BD/DVD distributor aside from being a video game publisher.
It's very confusing. It would make more sense if he was a freelancer, then working with SK and with a Cygames project would be more viable. But I guess we'll have to wait for the entire interview.
http://ryokutya2089.com/archives/18755#more-18755
Interview says the major reason of his leave is censorship on sexual content. No time to translate now. I am sure Gematsu or other site will translate soon.
Interview says the major reason of his leave is censorship on sexual content. No time to translate now. I am sure Gematsu or other site will translate soon.
Originally thought that was too simple a reason but it's the main reason as it turns out
Again, just put the series on Nintendo systems, even exclusively if needed. Such an odd decision that could've been avoided. You'd think he'd realize that Nintendo is VERY hands off on 3rd-party games, only stepping in if it had to do with the rating boards.
I'm curious to read the translation because how does moving to cygames solve the censorship issue? If he releases a game on PS4, nothing will have changed.
Oh. I assumed that wasn't the case when we learned he would still be working on SK, but... guess not.
Perhaps he had some creative differences with the higher-ups at Marvelous regarding censorship issues?
I wonder if Sony will take note of this.
Cygames, is mostly a mobile game developer, so whatever game he's gonna deliver would be on iphones first. Free from sony's censorship.
I would assume he's joining as part of their entrance into console gaming, though. What will his position at the company be? I guess I could see him working on mobile games.
Maybe he realized the error of his ways and is entering a new age of purity by creating a game of the most pure character in fiction.
This is the most sensible explanation I've heard.
Of course, if this is true it means he won't be working on SK indefinitely.
Maybe he just loved the Vita THAT much. It wouldn't shock me looking at some Vita threads in the past.
Because he faces himself and wants to make classic fantasy games.
Agreed, but I think there's a world of difference between cheescake titillation like SK Estival Versus (the only one I've played), and pervasive misogynistic tropes in various pieces of media that are presented as more accurate reflections of real life gender relationships and expressions.
Celebrating a move away from exploitation in mainstream games shows a positive shift in culture, but celebrating the death of an unpretentious, goofy-anime-tiddy series feels puritanical rather than progressive.
Interested if that means he's going to make something traditional or something traditional but with anime levels of lewdness (in other words big breasts but nothing weird like tentacles... if that makes sense). Anyway, only way I'll be interested is if the gameplay actually felt good. That was the main reason I never got into his games, and other similar games, the more "traditional gameplay" elements didn't feel refined and the more out there stuff was fun for all of 5 minutes of awkward laughing and wondering what I'm doing with my life before I got bored.
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Update from Gematsu, there's a lot more in the link:
https://gematsu.com/2019/03/kenichi...-remains-producer-of-the-senran-kagura-series
https://gematsu.com/2019/03/kenichi...-remains-producer-of-the-senran-kagura-series
I dunno, it kinda sounds like he's just staying on to finish up 7EVEN?
Most fans of the Oneechanbara games seems to agree that Girl/Zombie Hunter isn't good unfortunately
If the benchmark for feminism is creating a character men won't manage to fetishize/sexualize then we're pretty much screwed. We get turned on by everything.
* I personally find Bayonetta repulsive, but it's her proportions more than anything else.
I guess he had enough of the Sony censorship applied to the kind of games he was working on at Marvelous and floated away to safer boats. Probably the death of Senran Kagura in a few years.
A shame though, SK games are fun. Stupid fun but still.
A shame though, SK games are fun. Stupid fun but still.
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In October 2018, XSEED was forced by Sony America to delay the American version of Senran Kagura Burst Renewal (previously planned for a Fall 2018 release) to January, so that they could remove the lewd minigame from the American PS4 version. XSEED said they were blindsided by this, because it was an entirely new policy.
Also in October 2018, we learned that Sony Japan is now requiring Japanese devs to make their case to Sony America, in English, as to why their games should be allowed to exist in Japan.
Senran Kagura 7EVEN was supposed to come out in Japan in Fall 2018. Sony America killed it at the last second, and Marvelous delayed the game indefinitely as they struggle to try and get it into a form that Sony America finds acceptable. Takaki has apparently been significantly drained by the struggle.
Senran Kagura 7EVEN was a PS4 game. Until it got blindsided (in Japan) by Sony America. Porting it to Switch isn't an effortless task, although I'm guessing that Takaki wishes his game had been PS4/Switch multiplatform right now. The games that are appearing uncensored on Switch aren't ones that jumped there to avoid Sony America's censorship, they're the ones that already had a Switch version in the works.
I don't understand how exactly he being out of Marvelous will change that fact as he still will have to work with them for the series
I have mad respect for such a man who standed true to his ideals and left his position to have the freedom to sexualize underage girls.
In case it wasn't clear, that's sarcasm