Trade legend Keiji Inafune left Degree-5 final yr, the Fantasy Life and Professor Layton developer has revealed.
In a brand new entry on the Degree-5 “5-Star Workshop Devlog”, Degree-5 CEO Akihiro Hino describes the “sudden problem” confronted by upcoming RPG Fantasy Life i: The Lady Who Steals Time, which is about for a Could launch after having suffered quite a few delays.
Hino says that Inafune, who was serving as a producer on the venture, left Degree-5 “in mid-2024”, inflicting the studio to “reassess and restructure the venture”. Inafune’s departure, along with “harsh evaluations” from early playtesters, led Degree-5 to undertake a “full overhaul” of Fantasy Life i.
Hino goes on to say that the additions prompted by Inafune’s departure and the suggestions, together with “parkour-style actions” and “open-world exploration”, brought about testers to provide the sport “excessive reward”, reminding Hino and the staff of the “true pleasure in making a large-scale sport”.
In the event you want a refresher, Keiji Inafune labored with Capcom from the late 80s via to 2010, serving to to create enduring franchises like Mega Man, Lifeless Rising, and Onimusha, amongst others.
He left Capcom in 2010 and created Comcept, the studio that will go on to launch the much-maligned Mighty No. 9, in addition to video games like Soul Sacrifice and ReCore.
Comcept was acquired by Degree-5 in 2017, offering improvement help on Degree-5 video games like Megaton Musashi in addition to spearheading the event of the aforementioned Fantasy Life i: The Lady Who Steals Time.
It isn’t clear what Inafune will do subsequent; he hasn’t made any form of official announcement concerning his departure. He may, nonetheless, take the route adopted by a few of his colleagues and begin up his personal studio, maybe with backing from an organization like NetEase (though which may be changing into harder).
In any case, Fantasy Life i: The Lady Who Steals Time is about for launch on PC, PlayStation, Xbox Sequence X|S, and Nintendo Swap on Could twenty first.
