Yamagiwa-san: I love drawing, big fan of art when I was young. Sometimes you see that and think “wow” it just came together so beautifully. Another motivation is when when we’re on the dev side, it could be an aspect of the game or the game itself, and you see all the ideas from everyone come together, meld together, in like this perfect entity that is the game. That’s just so important to me, it means the world to me. My motivation, specifically, if kind of what you did, hearing players or fans saying I liked your game.

So it was a great choice for the types of games I wanted to make. I’ve been making a lot of different games at this point, the Nioh series and now Wo Long, but before that I thought, “I want to make games that go out to the world to as many people as possible.” Team Ninja worked with that, and we’ve made these great action games, and also bringing the games to everyone around the world. Yasuda-san: I got into the games industry because I wanted to make worlds, this whole world view and place of my own creation, and making the story is a really part of it. Q: I’m very interested to know what motivated the two of you to get into game development many, many years ago - and what inspires you today about being a producer within this dynamic industry? Interviewing Team Ninja is NextGen Player who attended TGS in-person, and he has managed to talk to Producers Fumihiko Yasuda (Nioh) and Masaaki Yamagiwa (Bloodborne with the help of a translator. The studio attended this year’s Tokyo Game Show with Wo Long already announced (alongside Rise of the Ronin), and we were fortunate enough to have had the chance to ask them a few questions about the game. With the success of both Nioh and Nioh 2, Team Ninja has now ventured forth to create a new game with Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty.

Wo long: fallen dynasty difficulty