Yakuza / Like a Dragon creator Toshihiro Nagoshi has celebrated his studio’s third anniversary with a music video through which his head explodes.
The video, which may be seen above and is titled MAKE/HUMAN, exhibits Nagoshi sitting down and smiling, earlier than his face peels off and his head explodes.
As reported by GameWatch, the video was accompanied by a message from Nagoshi in regards to the progress Nagoshi Studio has made in its first three years, although there was nonetheless no point out of the studio’s first recreation.
“Three years have handed since we established Nagoshi Studio,” he wrote (through machine translation). “Once I assume again, three years in the past we began with just some folks. At the moment, we didn’t also have a landline, not to mention a server, and we spent all our time creating plans and in search of employees.
“It was about six months later that we steadily began to take form as a studio. We nonetheless couldn’t see the long run, however what supported us was the ideas we had for the goals we have been going to understand, and the employees who had gathered to make these goals a actuality.
“And now, with the enlargement of our ground house full, now we have turn into a studio the place we are able to create video games with over 80 expert employees members.
“Though we’re nonetheless a little bit in need of the timing to launch our work to the world, we proceed to work onerous on daily basis. Nonetheless, because the variety of employees members will increase and we pursue the form of work that the instances demand, we should be ready to just accept numerous adjustments within the expertise and workflow we undertake.
“Naturally, this isn’t a simple factor to do. Nonetheless, regardless of how expertise and methodology change, our perception that every employees member is an individual in their very own proper has not modified. We are going to proceed to uphold this perception as we intention to realize our excessive beliefs. Thanks to your continued assist.”
In Nagoshi Studio’s first Western interview final yr, Nagoshi advised VGC that he wouldn’t let down followers of his earlier video games and would guarantee they might be completely happy together with his new studio’s debut recreation.
“Clearly, we’re not going to create one thing precisely the identical, however I do perceive there are expectations from folks based mostly extra on me as a creator and my character, so folks need to see my tastes and my character in my new video games,” Nagoshi advised VGC through a translator.
“Clearly, I cannot betray my followers in that sense – I’ll create one thing with my character and make a dramatic recreation, stuff like that – and my style and character can be mirrored within the recreation. I can’t inform you precisely what style it’ll be or what the sport goes to be like, however I cannot betray my followers.”
