Archive for March, 2008

Number 4 – Hironobu Sakaguchi

Sakaguchi-san is probably the only J-RPG developer most people know about. This is mainly due to the fact that he is the creator of the Square’s mythic Final Fantasy series. What most people don’t know is that the he only led the development of episodes I till V, with the most popular games from the [ READ MORE ]

Number 5 – Hiroya Hatsushiba

To start the list, an almost unknown developer: Hiroya Hatsushiba; in my opinion, he’s one of the genre’s great promises for the future. He is the director of 3 extremely interesting and, above all, innovative, different and stylish games: “Baten Kaitos”, its sequel, and “Eternal Sonata”. It might seem weird to put in such a [ READ MORE ]

Top 5 Japanese RPG developers

During last week, Gamasutra released their list for the 20 essential Japanese RPG’s and because of that, I decided to do something similar. But, keeping with the alternative tone of this blog, I thought it would be more interesting to analyze and commend the top 5 essential Japanese RPG creators/developers instead of the actual games. [ READ MORE ]

Bioshock – “Behold… Rapture!”

Rapture is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the most consistent, thought-provoking universes ever to grace a videogame. Written by none other than Ken Levine, this metaphor of modern capitalist America and nightmare of Ideological proportions, rightfully belongs in the same pantheon of dystopian masterpieces such as “1984”, “Farenheit 451” “Brave New World”, “Metropolis”, “Gattaca”, “V for Vendetta”[ READ MORE ]

Planescape Torment – “Undying Art”

Its stories, ideas and characters we’ll linger in your memory, challenging your heart and mind to fully understand the magnificence of the game’s experiences... making you want to go back to the “Planescape” universe time and time again. Whether Chris Avellone knew it or not, “Torment” was his undying attempt at immortality through art. It succeeded[ READ MORE ]

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