Katamari Damacy creator talks leaving Bandai Namco, and who he makes games for: "I’ll work on that in my next life"

"I’d similar radical to play them if they privation to"

Keita Takahashi is astir apt 1 of the astir recognizable names successful games, successful nary tiny portion acknowledgment to a crippled that needs nary introduction, Katamari Damacy. That crippled was made astatine Namco, earlier it became the Bandai Namco we cognize today, and Takahashi really near the workplace backmost successful 2006 astir the clip they merged, and successful a caller interrogation with GameSpark (as translated by Automaton), the developer has shared the crushed down his departure.

"I near the institution due to the fact that I didn’t privation to beryllium constricted to lone moving with the radical there," Takahashi rather plainly enactment it. "I wondered wherefore I was lone making games with Japanese people. I thought if I could make games with much radical from different countries, I would beryllium capable to get ideas from antithetic perspectives. I’m presently processing games with a scope of radical from each implicit the world."

Takahashi is presently moving connected to a T astatine his workplace Uvula, a rather beauteous looking crippled that looks to research disablement and the tiny difficulties that travel successful regular beingness successful his usual, quirky way. Despite moving with a much planetary squad these days, helium did admit that helium doesn't cognize "what schoolhouse civilization is similar successful the US, truthful I had nary prime but to usage Japanese elements" successful to a T.

He inactive thinks that there'll beryllium thing for everyone successful the crippled though, arsenic the main quality doesn't privation to spell to schoolhouse due to the fact that they're being bullied, and Takahashi thinks that "this is thing that happens worldwide, not conscionable successful Japan. I was really bullied myself, and ne'er felt similar going to school."

I bask Takahashi's enactment a lot, Katamari is simply a crippled I'd urge to astir apt anyone, and Wattam was a delight too, weirdness and all. Whether I'm the people assemblage oregon not doesn't look to substance overmuch to Takahashi either arsenic helium said: "I marque games that I consciousness satisfied with, truthful I’d similar radical to play them if they privation to. I conjecture I astir apt should marque games portion reasoning astir the people audience, but I’ll enactment connected that successful my adjacent life." Quite blessed that he's making the games helium is successful this 1 myself.

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