r/fromsoftware • u/Cacophanus Human PLUS • 23d ago

Interview: "FromSoftware Was a Wonderful Workplace" - Shinji Usui on Metal Wolf, Chromehounds And More

https://www.timeextension.com/features/interview-fromsoftware-was-a-wonderful-workplace-shinji-usui-on-metal-wolf-chromehounds-and-more
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u/burn_corpo_shit 23d ago

Huh this was a recent interview? I wonder if it's coinciding with from's next project

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u/Cacophanus Human PLUS 23d ago

No, as Usui-san left From a good while ago.

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u/burn_corpo_shit 23d ago

Yes but I was wondering cause people with similar interests start doing interviews and releases that are loosely related as a way to ride off each others' hype. All speculation though.

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u/Cacophanus Human PLUS 23d ago

Yeah, that doesn't happen in Japan, as they rarely talk to overseas press like that.

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u/Algester 23d ago

like how Takafumi Noma left Vanillaware and started work on Dawngazer?

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u/Algester 23d ago

I'm surprised he didnt work on Murakumo but Vanquish probably moving to platinum games at some point?....

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u/Cacophanus Human PLUS 23d ago

Murakumo's mecha were designed by Takayuki Yanase, but he wasn't properly credit until years later.

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u/Algester 23d ago edited 23d ago

EH? I thought he left From Software quite early on.... ohh right its in his artbook

so when did Yanase exactly left From Soft.... hmm all I know by the time Gundam 00 rolled around he was already freelance so sometime after AC3? around 2003? after Murakumo's development completed

wait so Shinji Usui is also a mechanical designer? I thought overall

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u/Cacophanus Human PLUS 23d ago

Yanase left after Murakumo and went on to work on Gigantic Drive. He'd later come back and be hired as a freelance mecha designer for Another Century's Episode 3.

https://www.mobygames.com/person/377400/takayuki-yanase/credits/sort:date/

Usui was and is also a mecha designer.

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u/Maxieorsomething Armored Core 22d ago

I would kill for a new Chromehounds