Every month Phantom River Stone holds a poll among our patrons to choose a topic for the blog in the coming month. After tallying the votes (including accumulated votes from previous months), the winning topic that has been voted this time is:
"Tweeted anecdotes from former developer on the original Shenmue project, Morio Ashizuka""Morio Ashizuka" is the pseudonym used on Twitter by a former developer who was deeply involved with development of the first two Shenmue games, in particular character animations and motion capture. He tweets prolifically about video games, SEGA and other topics - along with occasional fascinating insights and anecdotes from the day.
Some of the amazing details from Morio Ashizuka's tweets that we have included here on the blog in the past include:
- The revelation that the character of Izumi Takano was once a candidate for Ryo's love interest
- The reason Ryo's bicycle was dropped from the first Shenmue game
- Suzuki's comment about Takumi Hagiwara's motion capture as Ren
- What had been planned for the bicycle event by which Ryo travels to Miao Village
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| Cover of one of the "The Legend of Akira" script books (Chapter Four: Guilin) tweeted by Ashizuka. Source tweet |
In this upcoming post we'll be translating a selection of other Shenmue-related tweets from Ashizuka that shed further light on the game's development process.
Watch for it to come!
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