Ninja Blade Producer Interview

Masanori Takeuchi might not be a household name in America (or Japan, for that matter), but he should be. He's one of the unsung heroes of Japanese game development on Xbox 360, although his influence doesn't stop there. He's a long-time producer and artist at Tokyo's FromSoftware (of the Armored Core series), responsible for the Evergrace series on PS2 (the much-improved sequel to that series, Forever Kingdom, remains a staff favorite due to its insane soundtrack), the cult-favorite Otogi series on Xbox, the never-published-in-America President-of-the-U.S.-as-mech-action-hero shooter Metal Wolf Chaos, and one of the Xbox 360's first RPGs, Enchanted Arms. 

With Microsoft's FromSoftware-developed ninja action game, Ninja Blade, lingering just on the horizon (it ships in April), we knew that now was the time to toss a bunch of geeky-ass fanboy questions at Takeuchi. Sure you want to know about Ninja Blade, but you also want to know about why Metal Wolf Chaos never came to the States, and something about Otogi 3, don't you? Well, don't you?

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