Kotaku: Suda

Old Suda Game Coming To PSN

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:30:00 MDT

Waaaay back when he first started designing games, Goichi Suda and his Grasshopper team put out a game called Silver Case. Was a kooky murder investigation game. Well, as part of Grasshopper's ongoing tenth anniversary celebrations, it's been announced the game will be re-released. Well, re-released again, since a DS version's already on the way. That's the good news! The bad news is that, as a PS1 game, it'll probably be Japan-only again, leaving it available only to the more enterprising digital importers amongst you.

Suda51's PS1 Game The Silver Case Coming to PSN [1UP]

No More Heroes Mobile Is Less Bloody, More Adorable

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:30:00 MDT

Suda's No More Heroes is violent. It's also really, really stylish. Those are the two things the game's probably most renowned for, so when a Japanese mobile version of the game turns up looking neither stylish nor violent, should you care? Yes! Because there's not just one mobile game, there's three of them, they take Travis and co. and turn them into fat-headed children, and because each game only costs ¥100 (USD$0.95).

NO MORE HEROES FLASH ゲーム [Game Watch]

Zero Punctuation Relishes No More Heroes

Mark Wilson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:40:00 MDT

While Yahtzee was a little bit late to squeeze into our No More Heroes Frankenreview, he still offers a pretty enjoyable review of the game, likening the experience to, among countless other colorful, non sequitur metaphors, Branston Pickle. Having never consumed Branston Pickle, I can only assume that this review is absolutely, utterly false in its conclusion. And as I don't plan on visiting Branston's home in England any time in the near future to try it (or even going to the shelf in any large chain store to buy it), I should live a life of blissful ignorance for some time.

Zero Punctuation: No More Heroes [The Escapist]

No More Heroes Does OK In America (Probably Better In Europe)

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:20:00 MST

Marvellous Interactive have published some worldwide shipping/sales figures for Suda's No More Heroes. In Japan, homeland of all parties involved? It's done terribly. Only 40,000 copies have shipped since launch. Ouch. How about America, then? Little better: they've shipped around 200,000 copies, and have sold just over 100,000 since launch. Not bad! Finally, however, they announce some European numbers. And while the game's not even out there yet (it's shipping late Feb/early March across all PAL territories), they're expecting to sell 160,000 units across the continent at launch. Could something finally be coming up roses for Suda? Let's hope so!
NO MORE HEROES打上げ [Marvellous, via Alkaline @ NeoGAF]

Suda Wants To Make Mario With Guns

Mark Wilson — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:00:45 MST

Grasshopper's Goichi Suda (51) is pretty comfortable making violent games, like bloody light saber fest No More Heroes (a slap in the face to most fiction/reality when burns tend to cauterize wounds, but we digress). So he was recently asked by Nintendo Official Magazine UK if he'd consider making titles for a younger crowd. And that's when his eyes turned red and pupils the darkest black of night...

I want to make a Super Mario game for adults...Maybe Mario could wear an Italian suit and have a machine gun...But Nintendo probably wouldn't like that idea.

And somewhere in the distance, amongst the shadows and debris blowing in the wind, you could hear Miyamoto weeping. Softly.

With a gun.

Suda wants to make 'Mario with guns' [CVG][image]

3rd Party Titles Not Selling Comment "Misinterpreted"

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:00:52 MST

Remember when No More Heroes creator Goichi Suda said third party Wii games weren't selling? And then we looked at the sales chart and saw that, save Mario Party and Sonic and Mario at the Olympic Games, Suda was right. But no, no, no. Suda says that quote was taken out of context, misinterpreted. On his company's website, Suda tries to clear the air:

I am concerned to learn my comments in one interview regarding the success of Nintendo 3rd party titles have been misinterpreted. My point was that "NO MORE HEROES", unlike a lot of Nintendo Wii titles currently available is the kind of product which will attract a different kind of consumer to the hardware. ie. gamers who are looking for a different genre to the products which have been successful on this platform thus far.

Nobody's arguing with that! Heck, who's arguing with the misinterpretation?!
Grasshopper Manufacture [Official Site via GameFront via Go Nintendo]

No More Heroes Manual Looks Better Than Some Games

Mark Wilson — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:00:54 MST

Who out there reads instruction manuals? Show of hands. None? That's what we thought. Video game manuals are generally:

1. Boring
2. Not super clear
3. Nor concise
4. Dull
5. Synonym of dull

But this No More Heroes manual is modeled after a comic book and looks to lack Wiimote sketches altogether. Why not take a risk on the manual? It's not like you are going to disappoint anyone if the idea's a miss. Of course, if it is fantastic, chances are that no one will notice then, either.

Marvelous! No More Heroes has a comic book manual [siliconera]

Suda Is A Punk

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:00:13 MDT

Critics darling and Killer 7 producer Goichi Suda talked about artistry and business at last week's GDC. He explained that there are two types of creators: Business-oriented and art-oriented. For business devs, the client's wishes and expectations are priority numero uno. But the arty-types, it's their vision. (Though, Suda does admit that basically all game developers must be business-oriented, because, well, it is a business!) But at the end of the day, he says that he and his company Grasshopper Manufacture hold art in the highest regard thanks to, and we quote, "punk spirit." Not so much anti-authority, but rather, he's talking about doing something different from others. Take Killer 7, which he made with Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. Suda explains:

There are so many big games and big titles, but most of them are copycat... these games are important, but it's really hard to find a [different kind of] game. ...I really hate doing things that other people do... We need to create that kind of game... I'd like to ask publishers to help us and support us [to make more punk games].

Yeah, 'cause do we really wanna be sedated with pedestrian games? Check out the trailer for Suda's upcoming title here.

Hey! Ho! Let's Go! [Next-Gen]