Takashi Iizuka chats about NiGHTS JOD
Takashi sat down with 1up for a interview. The interview is pretty long and is part of 1up’s week long converge of NiGHTS Journey into Dreams. Whats new?
- Old NiGHTS tracks are re-done with a full orchestra. They also want to release it on CD.
- Since Naoto Oshima left Sega, Hoshino is doing designs for the new game. According to Takashi, Naoto only did the original NiGHTS Jester designs, while Hoshino did the rest.
- Takashi Iizuka is producer, director, and lead game designer of the new NiGHTS game.
- Elliot and Claris won’t make appearances in the new game.
- A NiGHTS DS game is on Takashi’s mind, but not working on it at the moment.
I think they should focus on bringing us the best Wii game first, then think about other platforms they can make the game for. Thats my two cents.
[Via 1up, Thanks for the tip, Shadiwulf]
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5 opinions for Takashi Iizuka chats about NiGHTS JOD
City Hunter
Nov 9, 2007 at 5:47 am
“Since Naoto Oshima left SEGA, Oshima is doing designs for the new game. According to Takashi, Naoto only did the original NiGHTS Jester designs, while Oshima did the rest.”
Naoto Oshima is really doing the design por Nights 2?
Well, i think I don’t undestand this.
Naoto (Oshima) only did the original Nights Jester, while Oshima (Naoto) did the rest???
LOL :)
Aki-at
Nov 9, 2007 at 6:48 am
Yeah they’ve got new gameplay videos and everything, today is apparently going to be the gameplay footage for the kids.
George
Nov 9, 2007 at 7:29 am
1UP: The original character designer, Naoto Oshima, who now is the president of Artoon, was largely responsible for the Saturn game’s visuals. Now that he’s no longer at Sega, how are you maintaining the look and feel in the new character designs and enemy designs?
TI: As you pointed out, Oshima-san is no longer at Sega, and he was the director as well as the original character designer for the original NiGHTS. But as well there was Hoshino-san, a character designer who worked on the original NiGHTS, and he handled Nightmaren, Elliot and Claris’ character design, and he’s the main character designer on Journey Of Dreams, so we’re confident that we’ve captured the style of the original NiGHTS.
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Sorry I mean’t Hoshino, i should fix that. Thanks, I mixed up the names
DiGi Valentine
Nov 9, 2007 at 8:57 am
Iizuka is lying about something, there. :)
shadow1w2
Nov 9, 2007 at 7:24 pm
I jsut hope the game stops looking like the Dreamcast beta that never was.
Atleast the main gameplay should still be good.
Oh man, orchestrated remixs of the origonal? AWSOME!
Better have the Nighta and Realla song, I love that one, too short though.
Still kinda wish the oriognal kids were in the game, plus the origonal game :/
A DS game might be interesting if they continue the series some more after this, if it does well.
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