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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Yeah. He's working on a Wii game.

So you may know him as some dude who used to work at Square-Enix. I know him as one of my favorite video game designers ever. You may know him as Yasumi Matsuno. I know him as Yazz. You may know him as that guy who worked on Final Fantasy 12. I know him as the guy who worked on these fantastic games:

Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen: Director, scenario and game design

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together: Director, scenario and game design

Final Fantasy Tactics: Director, script and game design

Vagrant Story: Producer, director and battle design

Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber: Script, scenario design

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: Producer, original concept (note that there is nothing about direction, story, or scenario design)

Final Fantasy XII: Original concept, scenario plotter, and supervisor

So the last known game he was confirmed to work on was Final Fantasy 12. He left before the game was finished, which is probably why the story in FF12 felt very rushed towards the end of the game. Since then, Matsuno had fallen off them map. No one knew where he was, and awhile ago there were rumors he was working on a Wii game. Well, he is indeed working on a Wii game. Luckily, it's a game I'm excited about. The project he is on could have hardly been predicted, as it is not what you typically expect from the great Yazz.

Platinum Games developer, Atsushi Inaba (best known as former CEO of Clover Studios and for his work on Viewtiful Joe, Godhand, Okami, and the Phoenix Wright series) has hired the great Yasumi Matsuno to work on the story for the upcoming (and hopefully spiritual successor to Godhand) Wii title, MadWorld. (Source)

MadWorld....

Yeah, this game:

This is strage, yet refreshing news. I hope MadWorld is great, but more importantly I hope that Platinum Games lets him work on his own project. The true spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics perhaps?

Thoughts?

Brad

From Around the Community

If you've been around chat for a while you'll know mod Corvus. He came in the limelight back when I was playing Majora's Mask and has been known to give me a hard time about playing games. I assure you viewers and chatters that we are good friends and have even talked about meeting up for Thanksgiving Dinner. Our Kid Link and Skull Kid friendship is a strong as ever.

As proof I have included a conversation we had last night, in the midst of my playing Metroid Prime. To Corvus I say, I am honored to be your favorite member and I will keep doing my best to make you proud. What are you doing for Spring Break?

In other news I am proud to display the draw for the Left 4 Dead Tourney. This was all orchestrated by some of our regular/long time chatters. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out to see how things develop. Our very own Travis Granger is competing as part of Team 1. We'll keep you guys posted on who moves on to the second round. It's even possible I could find some kind of prize for the winners of the tourney, provided it's not Travis. Actually, I'll announce that I'm putting out a Bounty for the Team who takes the so called "god" out.

Have fun,
David

Birthday Wishes - Tsuzura Saki

Today - February 17th - Tsuzura Saki from the Arcana Heart Series.

I've been trying to compile a list of video game birthday's for a while now. Each time I do, I end up losing the list or forgetting to add someone. So in a way to help put this together, I ask you the community to help out. If you feel like contributing, whenever there is a video game character's birthday coming up, send me an email at davidliao@4playerpodcast.com.

I'll add it to the list, make a blog post, and give you credit.
David

The First Revival Club Podcast

Here are the newest shows that have been uploaded.

001 - Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath [download] (Avaliable on iTunes)

Also, here's last week's Top 5. There was a problem with Brad's microphone, so sorry about the audio quality.

028 - Top 5 4PP Games [download]

Thanks,
David

Monday, February 16, 2009

4pp Whispers

Nick, Travis, and everyone else missed the point of my whisper. People who are possibly interested in an upcomming "something" with 4pp should be working on their writing skills.

Imitation is the Sincerest Form of....

No one has made more of a mark on 4PP than Bradford Simons. His name is synonymous with success and he single handedly spread the word about us to millions in one moment of greatness. I'd like to take the time to remember what he has accomplished and how many he has inspired.