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KanzarisKelshen posted...

I need to research Theatrhythm but Nomura was absolutely heavily involved in Stranger of Paradise and NEO TWEWY. He was the guy pushing and pushing to the suits for NEO to get greenlit, he did the character designs for most of the characters and so on. Stranger of Paradise was flat out his story concept, too. He's spoken at length about how he had the story of 'an angry man' in the pocket since Dissidia Duodecim. Team Ninja did the gameplay, but the game concept was Nomura's brainchild and he's the one who got Kazushige Nojima to write the story treatment.

See, neither of those come close to crossing the border of "heavily involved" to me. Credit where credit is due, he definitely deserves to be recognized for pushing for a greenlight for NEO TWEWY and for his work on it as an artist. Stranger of Paradise yeah I'll recognize he had the loose concept of the story but if someone else actually wrote it and a completely different studio made, you know, the entire game, I'm not seeing how either of these examples result in these games being spoke of as "his games" like he directed them or even really had anything to do with their development as games. Yuji Himukai is a fucking incredible artist but I wouldn't say he should get directors credits on any of the Etrian Odyssey games!