I dunno about the whole "Inafune didn't create Mega Man" thing that I seem to keep seeing lately, though...

I dunno about the whole "Inafune didn't create Mega Man" thing that I seem to keep seeing lately, though. Kitamura did make a sprite of Mega Man first, it's true, but Inafune designed what we now think of as Mega Man today in official art, based off of that sprite. Had it been anyone else, Mega Man could have looked very different. Just look at how the Mega Man from Captain N turned out based on someone else's interpretation of the in-game sprite with nothing else to go on. So at the very least, I think Inafune should at least be credited as co-creator, if nothing else, even if people are really upset with him as of late.

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Didn't some actual game dev point out long ago that Inafune is *not* a game developer, but rather just a businessman?

I legitimately quite like Inafune's art-style. Yeah, it's a little dated (It's very much of a product of its time) and maybe he wears his Tezuka influence on his sleeve a bit much, but it's very charming.

Also he and Sony Japan Studio both said a couple of months ago that they'd like they collaborate on another Soul Sacrifice game sometime in the future, so I'm hoping that comes to fruition.

To be honest I'd make him sole creator. He was the true father of Megaman, not Dr. Light, and it's a fucking travesty the shit he's receiving when he put his heart and soul into MN9 and did his damndest to make his fans happy, because he loves them like his own fucking children.

And everyone shits on him. Fucking travesty.

Inafune is basically just an ideas guy and a fairly good artist who happens to have (or had) a good head for business and marketing strategies, he's not a director.

Also it was Kamiya who said that.

only Tatsuya Yoshikawa can be the Breath of Fire artist.

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Inafune is a decent artist. Through a series of lucky events, he rose to become a producer. He should have stayed an artist though. He's a pretty piss poor producer/businessman.

At least edit it to include the amusing photo he posted afterwards in an attempt to prove that they're still homies.

I wonder if Kamiya was actually telling the truth and that they are actually still alright on a personal level and him coming across as being snarky was just the language barrier, or it just struck him later that slagging off one of his old co-workers could later come back to bite him in the ass, so he then went the damage control route?

Inafune IS a creator and director. It was his decision that made X the protagonist of the X series, rather than Zero. He's the one who directed the team behind X5 to make it as if it was the last game in the series. He worked on the scenario for Mega Man Zero. Nothing in comparison to what Kamiya has done, but it's not like he's a banker. He's an artist and has the ability to be a creator/director, just like Tetsuya Nomura ended up being for Square.

The only reason people say he didn't create Mega Man is because people don't WANT to say he did, because at this point they think he's a hack and will use any evidence they can to discredit him. Kitamura may have done the base sprite, but it was done in black & white, on graph (pixel) paper. It was Inafune's decision (again) to make Mega Man blue, as he's said multiple times. It was ultimately his job to take Kitamura's sprite and translate it to the NES using the best colors available, which happened to be blue. And given he did all official artwork of the character and did designs for all of Mega Man's other sprites...yeah, it's fair to call him co-creator.