Likewise, Ito gave no quarter to the programming team upon becoming director. Hosokawa is a designer, and when he became a director he went tough on the design team. Hosokawa says that one thing he found interesting is how directors who come from a specific team tend to not hold back against their former team. The size of the team growing meant that the distance between people also grew, and he did not realize that until taking on his new role. Ito also says that by becoming the director, he found out that each section of the team kept trying to reduce work for the other sections: For example, putting 100 of the same item in the world would be something easily done by the programmers, but the planners and designers would try to do it themselves, not wanting to trouble the programmers. One thing that did change is with how he talks with the development staff: Many still see him as a programmer due to his previous role, and so he has to actively ask them to also ask him about planning and design elements and not just programming issues. Ito says that as program supervisor he made known his opinions on the content of the game, and looked over development from above, and so his job has not actually changed all that much. It is pointed out that Ito was the program supervisor on the first game, and the interviewer asks if, with his background, there was anything he wanted to do in Lost Judgment. He also says that they felt that they should not cave to overseas pressure and change it, because making things that are quintessentially Japanese that might turn out to invoke a sense of wonder for foreign players is one of their strengths. They wanted to depict Yagami’s daily life as such a detective, and show a story starting with a tail, and he says that this portrayal was necessary to construct the characters and story. However, private detectives are commonplace in Japan, doing backgrounds checks and looking for lost pets. The interviewer asks why they wanted to include the tailing so much, and Hosokawa acknowledges that many people had things to say about the tailing, and some staff members were also of the opinion that they should not start the game with it. He thinks they spent an entire year working on it. As such, they put effort into showing how tense and fun the tailing is, test playing it over and over again. The tailing sequences in the previous game were divisive, and they received a lot of feedback from players outside of Japan who said they wanted to hurry up and get to the fights. Next, they are asked if they paid particular attention to anything in development, and Ito says that they spent a lot of time and effort on the tailing sequences at the start of the first chapter. It was not just the work on the game that consumed time: Translation work for bug reports and documentation and differences between time zones making scheduling difficult were also factors. The interviewer asks if them working on it so close to release was due to the simultaneous worldwide multiplatform release, and Ito says that it was.
Hosokawa says that while they cannot have a sense of release yet, he does feel somewhat relieved that they have gotten past the hardest parts. Ito says that as of the time of the interview (August) they are still working on the DLC and so cannot be fully relieved yet, but he is still relieved that they main game is coming out as they had worked on it up to as close to release as possible. The interview begins with Hosokawa and Ito being asked how they feel about approaching the release.
#ROBOTICS CLUB LOST JUDGMENT SERIES#
Lost Judgment, the sequel to the Yakuza series spin-off Judgment, was released on 24 September 2021, and the Octoissue of Weekly Famitsu featured an interview with Ryu ga Gotoku Studio producer Hosokawa Kazuki and director Ito Yutaka regarding the game.Īlso see: Interview: Yakuza 7 Developers Discuss the Genre Shift and New Protagonist
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