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Developer Says Ninja Gaiden 3 Was "Made... For The West"

Posted on Thursday, June 21 @ 10:40:15 Eastern by

Speaking with Gamasutra, Head of Team Ninja Yosuke Hayashi said that Ninja Gaiden 3 was aimed too much at Western tastes. In the interview, Hayashi said:

It seems like we made a Japanese hamburger for the West. Maybe as a Japanese developer, we need to make good Japanese food... and that's what people are wanting from a Japanese developer.

YES! Thank you! No one in the corporate office is going to realize this and demand it from you. They are going to ask for that hamburger every day of the week. EVERY. DAMN. DAY.

They don't give a shit about your creativity! They want you to make that super-big-million-fucking-seller. It's not going to happen if you don't have a unified vision. I'm happy Team Ninja, and someone so high up in the chain at the development studio, has realized this, I just wish it didn't take a huge stinker like Ninja Gaiden 3 to get the point across.

Hayashi continued to say that the current environment in the Japanese development industry is to do "everything they can just to basically stay above water." I think everyone can respect that situation these days.

This and other lessons are in my open letter to the Japanese development community on how to return to their former selves.
Related Games:   Dead or Alive 5, Ninja Gaiden 3
Tags:   Ninja Gaiden, Team Ninja, Tecmo Koei


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  • Stickyellowsock
    Stickyellowsock
    Joined: Oct 2009
    Posted: Jun 21st, 2012 at 10:47 am
    Ya the west sure loves fighting mind controlled T-Rex's
    0 0
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Jun 21st, 2012 at 11:00 am
    There's some Japanese absurdity in there, but the mechanics were horribly dichotomous.
    0 0
  • Capt_Dastardly
    Capt_Dastardly
    Joined: Sep 2011
    Posted: Jun 21st, 2012 at 10:52 am
    Because here in the west, we love repetitive, unimaginative tripe... I kinda feel like ol' Yosuke Hayashi is dropping a masked insult, 'we made a game for the west, you guys like sh*t dont you?'

    I'm sure he isnt, but I'm having a bad day (I tried to play FF13-2, now do you see why im in a bad mood)
    0 0
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Jun 21st, 2012 at 11:00 am
    Ouch, double dose of westernized crap.
    0 1
  • TheJx4
    TheJx4
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jun 21st, 2012 at 10:57 am
    No, don't blame it on trying to make it for the West. It was a bad game because you tried to make it based on what you think the West wants.

    This is also why DmC will fail.
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  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Jun 21st, 2012 at 11:01 am
    Even though DmC is developed by a Western developer?
    0 1
  • TheJx4
    TheJx4
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jun 21st, 2012 at 11:51 am
    Yes. We did not, and never asked for a "Western" Devil May Cry. DMC4 was step in that direction. It's no different than giving a japanese developer a western title.
    0 0
  • warmaster670
    warmaster670
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Jun 21st, 2012 at 7:34 pm
    Whos we? learn to speak for yourself thank you very much, as its the only person you speak for.
    0 0
  • Alex_Osborn
    Alex_Osborn
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Jun 21st, 2012 at 11:18 am
    Honestly, there was so much wrong with that game I wouldn't even know where to start. Sure, chasing after the western audience was part of the problem, but that game was flawed on so many levels.
    0 0
  • oblivion437
    oblivion437
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Jun 22nd, 2012 at 8:37 pm
    Not having played NG3 I can't properly comment on it...but from videos it seems that the phrase 'a Japanese hamburger' is about right. In an attempt to bridge the gap between what the previous Ninja Gaiden games were and what seemed to be selling well they almost slipped into the chaotic evil section of the game developer alignment chart.
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