Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki is talking up his new game, Devil’s Third. Not content in telling us that it’s a going to be a great game (we’d expect no less from the controversial director) the perpetually leather jacket-sporting straight-talker claims Devil’s Third is “the best game ever.”
Itagaki’s latest bluster comes from his chat with UK publication EDGE, as picked up by CVG. Commenting on the infernal difficulty of his previous games, the Japanese designer stated:
“Ninja Gaiden, it was absolutely intentional that it be that difficult. That game was a revival version of a classic game for old-school gamers, so I wanted to make the hardcore happy.
“Ninja Gaiden 2, though, I really wanted more people to enjoy that, but… we ran out of time for balancing. That was a tragedy. Really.
“For Devil’s Third, there’s absolutely nothing to worry about. We’ve got support from THQ’s testing team, and we’re going to work really closely with those guys to balance out the game. It’s going to be the best game ever.”
No pressure, eh Itagaki-san?
Devil’s Third was announced just before E3 and is one of the first games produced under THQ’s new Partners banner. Here’s the announcement trailer again in case you missed it first time around. It is also pretty awesome so it’s worth another look.
Source: EDGE via CVG
DrNate86
What a fantastic musical score to go along with the mindless violence, reminds me of A Clockwork Orange! I got put off the Ninja Gaiden games because they were so unforgiving (having half completed the first one twice), so it is good to hear he is toning things down a bit. I bet this won’t be a popular decision with the die-hard fans though!
bunimomike
Agreed. For me, there’s no finer coupling of music than listening to Double Cleff FM (GTA) and mounting the pavement to run people down. It was pure art!
mrfodder
Reminds me of Wet.
jikomanzoku
That was absolutely inspired and I grinned, ear to ear, from start to finish, the rocket to the 3 wall runners even got a laugh. You’re bang on about the music Nate, what a genius choice it was :D
scavenga
This looks absolutely amazing. When is it out?
Kovacs
Sometime in 2012.
Forrest_01
Before the world ends I hope??
YOURMUMANDME
It does look awesome, is it sandbox or is it cunningly disguised as it ?
hazelam
have more than one difficulty level if you want the ultra hardcore players to have a challenge but still let us mere mortals have fun with the game.
one thing puzzles me though, how can this be an itagaki game? that woman was wearing far too much clothing for that.
jikomanzoku
lol, fair point. Her clothes probably explode in slow mo during special moves or something equally stupid.
DRCD1
Mindless Action… I like it
Sword Play… very nice
TPS where you can actualy jump… I LOVE IT… I think I’ll buy this.