Aeana said: Not surprised. I kind of doubt that Level-5 was really willing to give him the amount of freedom or resources he really wanted. It'll be interesting to see where he turns up down the road. Click to expand...

brinstar said: Curious, what's wrong with their games? I've only played their Dragon Quests Click to expand...

Doesn't Akihiro Hino want to have a huge hand in every game Level 5 puts out? I feel his sort of, I dunno, Disney-esque approach to being all ages friendly doesn't exactly mesh with what Matsuno would've wanted to make.Dark Cloud 1 & 2 had loads of random dungeons, which is fine with some people... but then Rogue Galaxy had huge, long dungeons that felt like they may as well be randomly generated. That was my problem, but it also feels like they rarely manage to make that last push to really making FUN games. Charming typically, but I think as a result stuff like Dragon Quest, Layton, and Time Travellers comes out best as either A. they aren't designing the gameplay systems fully, or B. they're not really gameplay focused anyway, at least not in the sense a core game is.