Yasuyuki Oda is a legend among KOF fans! The good manared game producer have been with SNK for years and has worked on many gem titles of years past before producing The King Of Fighters XIV. Oda san is also involved to some degree with the upcoming SNK Heroines and Gamegrin.com had the opportunity to sit down and talk to him about SNK Heroines, Anime, Samurai shodown and more. Below are some important bits of the interview:
GAMEGRIN:Ah okay, just to go back to games. With the game coming out early September, what do you hope your western audiences get out of SNK Heroines when it’s out?
TRANSLATOR:Well there’s two things, the battle system is a 2v2 battle system. That’s unlike anything else, obviously unlike anything that’s come out of SNK. But honestly, not a lot like anything else others have come out with. That’s the first thing [Oda-san] would like people to pay attention to. Now the second thing is the customisation people can do, there’s over 130 items people can use to customise their characters. And then you can take like funny pictures in-game with them, and you can share them on social media and things like that, so [Oda-san] really hopes people will really enjoy that feature, and enjoy taking fun and crazy pictures that they can throw up on social media. And you know, have conversations about all that.
GAMEGRIN:Is there any other game or franchise you’d like to work on? And is there anything specific about that series?
TRANSLATOR:
Samurai Shodown. If possible [Laughs]. It’s because it’s so different from other fighting games, where it’s weapon based. Whenever you land an attack, you lose so much of your stamina meter. And it’s one of the only games really, where having that big of a damage is allowed. So for example, [Oda-san] thinks people be really upset and there’d be a lot of complaints from [players] about it.
GAMEGRIN:Do you think, in terms of taking characters and taking them out of that setting, that we’ll see a spin-off involving characters from SNK Heroines or even King of Fighters in general? Or even possibly in a different medium.
TRANSLATOR:
Actually there’s a lot of stuff going on for that, for example King of Fighters has one that’s like a 3D anime. It’s mainly centred, I don’t want to say broadcasted, but it’s like mainly in Asia, particularly in Japan, China, Hong Kong. They’re really big on it, in Japan it’s called a Media Mix.
You can read the full interview at the source.
source: GamerGrin
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