Not to mention what he did to Sonic Xtreme's development team.it's been well documented
Yuji Naka Killed "Dreamcast's Star Fox", Says Former Sega Producer
"I'm going to tell the truth, and if it comes back to bite me, so be it"www.nintendolife.com
Yuji Naka, creator of Balan Wonderworld, erases Naoto Ohshima, creator of Sonic and NiGHTS, from photo commemorating NiGHTS birthday
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You don't get removed of a project by 6-7 departments (Including HR) without you being a piece of shit.
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Kamiya have the best track record post-Capcom. But yeah, those are good examples.
I think it's unfair to say that Itagaki is on the same "level" than Inafune and Naka. It is pretty clear that Ninja Gaiden and DoA have "his dna" and even if Team Ninja is doing better nowadays, DoA 5 is meh and Ninja Gaiden 3 is terrible. Itagaki may be a terrible person (I don't know), but at least his games were goods.
Azrest makes TERRIBLE games and Yuji Naka seems a terrible person.
So you realize how strong your case actually is has literally nothing to do with whether or not you can pursue legal action. You can pursue legal action on pretty much anything for any reason. You can't really say the case is strong unless he actually manages to produce results (which hasn't happened if this is ongoing). People pursue legal action over complete bullshit that has no chance of winning all the time. Sometimes for the sole purpose of making the other party miserable
Oh wow, I know Naka is pretty infamous for being a massive egotistical asshole but holy shit man! Oshima and Naka are typically credited as co-creators of Sonic! 30 years of what had to be some level of friendship (since they kept working together) down the tubes. The meeting in which Oshima fired him had to have been HOT!
Nobody goes to Arzest expecting Super Mario Odyssey, they go to them because they do a project typically on a decent budget and get it out the door on time, pretty much always in a functional (if unremarkable) state.
It's not like they're only involved in complete duds, they (as either Arzest or Artoon) have worked on decent ports and even some parts of good original games including: The Last story, Yoshis Wooly world (3DS port), the streetpass app for the 3DS, the Giant battles for some of the mario and luigi games, Yoshis Island DS (Which is far from a terrible game, the 810 metacritic it has is pretty much right).
Of course, they also have a significant list of duds, nobody is going to deny that.
That kinda reads like something Trump would say. :(Reminder what this dude said about Hirokazu Yasuhara, the real mastermind behind the game/level design of the OG trilogy
Yuji Naka interview by CVG (May 27, 2003) - Sonic Retro
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Some of the details, like making a map, quite straight-forward stuff, was done by the guy who's working on Jak and Daxter right now. He was involved until Sonic 3, and after that for eight years he didn't do anything in Sega, so he was quite useless in Sega. We really didn't need him. He was really doing nothing with Sonic.
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He unfollowed it, but never seemed to deny it, and the NFT game twitter account still claims that he is involved in the project.
The 3DS port of Wooly World was still by Goodfeel. But they did make Hey! Pikmin, which is fun.
I bought a physical copy for Xbox One because I remember seeing it sold only like 10,000 somewhere? Probably Japan or something.
It's the only game of mine I have still sealed. Not because of "holding any kind of value," but because I have ZERO interest in actually playing it, lol.
That's a damn shame. I wish I didn't see this today, lol.
Hopefully he finds himself out of it.
This is not entirely fair. Hyperbole about their games aside, Arzest (and Artoon before them) are really only guilty of making games that are just okay and maybe bland at their worst. Like I get that people are down on Yoshi's Island DS and New Yoshi's Island for being inferior to the SNES game, but they are still largely competent games. The fact that they keep getting work (even by companies they've allegedly failed in the past according to fans) is a testament to the fact that they make acceptable work and are seemingly easy to work with.
The exception is Balan, and, well, it's not hard to see the two possible factors that made that the outlying case for them.
What a colossal piece of trash.it's been well documented
Yuji Naka Killed "Dreamcast's Star Fox", Says Former Sega Producer
"I'm going to tell the truth, and if it comes back to bite me, so be it"
Yeah, but I think that making BLAND games is worse than making bad games.
I don't know, I really think everything they made are so generic... I realy hate these games.
It's really disapointing.
Huh. Disappointing . At least Soleil has Wanted: Dead this year.
Yeah, but a history of making bland games (and Artoon at least worked on a couple of legit good games) is still not them having a history of making terrible games when they only really have one actual terrible game on their record and it's the one Naka directed.
Though we can't deny the SquareEnix factor
Yoshi's Island DS is genuinely terrible. Like, even ignoring all the blatant level design, play control, art and audio issues, there's a literal blindspot in the middle of the playing field at all times. No other DS game I've played utilized the dual screens that poorly.
I'm not defending Naka here (I don't have much faith in his current game production capabilities and he's also a dick), but another thing to consider with Balan is that it was a full priced console exclusive. Arzest got away with releasing junk for so long not because the games were necessarily better (to be fair, most were, with the exception of Yoshi's Island DS and maybe Topsy-Turvy), but because handheld games are often (stupidly) held to a lower standard. If Balan Wonderworld was released on the 3DS or something it's likely would have gotten the same "bland but not terrible" pass that all of Arzest's games get from professional game reviewers.
There's a "something Balan energy" joke here, but...
I guess I'll just leave it at that, lol.
A reminder that Yuji Naka threatened to quit sega unless the team making Sonic Extreme stopped using his knights engine. Thus scuttling the project, robbing the saturn of a much needed killer app and contributing to the death of the system. This was after he had visited the team early in production, seen the state development was in [Sega of america didn't even know what specs the saturn had at this point, and obviously had no devkits.] and merely said 'Good luck.'
He's always been a petty bitch.
He's always been a petty bitch.
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Oh wow.Here's another fun one.. once someone made a fanart with Sonic, NiGHTS and Balan and tagged both Naka and Oshima; and Naka personally asked to remove Oshima from tagging lol
I was gonna say he was scribbled out because he probably didn't wanna be shown in a photo but this is something else...
I can't imagine how big of a piece of shit you would have to be to say something like that. Like, jesus christ. What a petty, self-aggrandizing asshole.Reminder what this dude said about Hirokazu Yasuhara, the real mastermind behind the game/level design of the OG trilogy
"So I was involved with every aspect of the original Sonics. Some of the details, like making a map, quite straight-forward stuff, was done by the guy who's working on Jak and Daxter right now. He was involved until Sonic 3, and after that for eight years he didn't do anything in Sega, so he was quite useless in Sega. We really didn't need him. He was really doing nothing with Sonic."Yuji Naka interview by CVG (May 27, 2003) - Sonic Retro
Every story that I hear paints a picture of Naka being overall detrimental to Sega the entire time post 16 bit era. Not terribly shocked to hear he's still being himself.
I find all this drama fascinating , it's rare to see it in the Japanese developer side of things.
