Towards the end of 2021, the famous video game creator Goichi "Suda51" Suda announced his development studio had joined the Chinese video game group NetEase.
With No More Heroes 3 now complete, Suda 51's team is focused on creating new and original IP projects over the next decade. In a recent interview uploaded on the NetEase Games YouTube channel (via Niche Gamer), Suda has now discussed a little more about what's ahead - teasing a reveal, possibly before the end of 2022:
"So the games we make at this studio...I mean the really, truly cool and all-new games, we're going to continue creating them, and I think everyone is going to be really impressed. I wonder when I can announce this...? Maybe around the end of the year...? I'm not sure... It may end up being next year, we'll see how it goes. Anyway, I want to hurry up and show everyone what we're doing."
Grasshopper has opened up a new studio thanks to its partnership with NetEase, nicknamed "Yabukiri Studio" (Yabukiri being the "toughest of the grasshoppers"). Also labelled "Grasshopper version 5.1" by Suda himself.
Apart from a future project reveal, Suda hopes to get younger Grasshopper staff working on own projects with their own "new game style", and then follow up with second and third titles.
"These days, I've been working on back-to-back projects, and I'd like to start a second project when the time comes...I want to do a project focusing on the younger Grasshopper staff, and have them create games in their own new game style. First I'd like to start with that...And then see if we can make it to a second and third title. I really want to do it properly and make it work."
Are you looking forward to this next chapter in Grasshopper Manufacture's history? What projects would you like to see next from the Japanese studio? Leave a comment down below.
[source youtu.be, via nichegamer.com]
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I wish I was as cool as Suda
The only problem I have with this is Grasshopper’s last 2 games (Travis Strikes Again and NMH3) have been rough around the edges and a little flat on innovation. Make something great, not something fast.
Killer 7 on Switch please 😁
I'm hoping we can get the amount of diversity in games that we had in the DS days. With the lower game development costs, developers could afford to work on multiple projects at once, with weirder, more unique styles.
Hm... Translated Twilight Syndrome and Moonlight Syndrome remasters/remakes? Shadows of the DAMNED sequel? Long time ago promised Flower, Sun, and Rain Remake? I'm hope that this new game is already existing ip, not something new.
Flower, Sun, and Rain remaster please
All for seeing what the grasshoppers are cooking up because it's usually actually ORIGINAL. Something that is dying faster than ever in today's age of reboots/remakes/sequel#102/prequel/remaster/rebuy greed machine that never stops dumping garbage for the hungry fly masses.
I wonder if it will be Shadows of the Damned related? Considering some dialogue from TSA explaining their desire to re-release the game with some QOL.
Can't say I'm really looking forward to next Goichi Suda game especially after No More Heroes III.
Loved NMH 3 ... I wonder if he'll ever make something as great as Killer7 again...
NMH3 was incredible and I wish more companies could make rough, poorly optimized games like that.
Suda51 is a dev I used to think I liked as a teen. In hindsight, I liked the gore and sensual ladies, but the gameplay of many of them just doesn’t do it for me 15 yrs later. However, I’ve never written him off as a developer and I will look into whatever he makes next.
Killer is dead on switch please....
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