Tak Fujii recently got interviewed at the Tokyo Game Show. I thought the way he expressed his love for making games was pretty amazing and want other people to see it.
>Additionally I’ve been sick for 4 years and am still under medication, but games still give me a chance to have fun and motivation to live another day, and a chance to show my fun ideas to the world. Making games is a part of my life and will continue throughout my life. Japanese video game and manga culture is hype and I believe it does have a unique power give people passion to live another day for depressed people, like me in past few years, fighting and suffering from an incurable disease. >Games and manga can provide a unique vision of virtual worlds. We know it’s virtual, but it becomes hope for those in certain situations. We will be motivated to live for tomorrow because there is hope. Real life is tough but the imaginary game worlds we create can provide some little help to be motivated for tomorrow. >I might be stable with this condition for a while, or might have to enter to the hospital again soon... I can't control this so I decided not to think about my illness anymore and stay focused and thankful for extra days to live (TIME EXTENDED!), and think about how I can leave something after me. >Hopefully my work can be part of helping someone, and I want to spend rest of my short life to do so, and I want to tell the younger generation about the greatness of video games.
It's kinda funny that the game he is promoting (Gal Metal) is so silly but that seems kinda fitting too. I hope it gets an English release. It's a rhythm game for the Switch about a boy and girl who get merged by aliens and have to share the girls body and play the drums in a band for some reason to fix things. youtube.com/watch?v=a8NrocyszYM
>>Hopefully my work can be part of helping someone, and I want to spend rest of my short life to do so, and I want to tell the younger generation about the greatness of video games.
Damn, that's sad. It's terminal?
Christopher Johnson
>Tak Fujii is unironically my favourite dev with Kamiya >Used to tweet him back when extreeeeeeeme was popular. >Replied to me a few times and wished me a extreeeeeme new year I think.
I love Japanese rhythm games but I'm doubtful of a Western release for this.
Lucas Roberts
>Japanese dev: games are awesome and I hope my games help people to endure bad times >Western devs: I HATE ALL OF YOU REEEEEEEEEEE
Easton Davis
I love how hard this guy rides the meme train.
Austin Rivera
;_;7
Jason Nguyen
I was going to bring this point up.
Japanese devs work to death yet can still find some room to be thankful, and extract some personal joy from their work.
Luke Long
>It's a rhythm game for the Switch I like the concept but I didn't see the motion controls looking so good, in fact I don't even like motion controls, is there a way to choose to play with button prompts?
Lucas Barnes
It's depressing how I've burned years of my life as a NEET while this guy tries to make the best of the short time that he still has.
Luke Walker
Didn't some dumb Polygon bitch criticise the game for she did not understand the controls and tutorials because they were in japanese? On fucking TGS, what did she expect? Tak Fuji knows english and he dicussed about her botched preview saying it wasn't fair on her part, she should have asked him about how the controls worked, he was right there close to her, everyone knows Tak Fuji can speak english (WOOOW).
Luke Hernandez
>On fucking TGS, what did she expect?
I know people here know this, but it just needs to be said now.
Game Journalism is shit.
Carson Cox
>2013 Check his twitter right now, his profile pic still is the same from his 2010 Konami conference, the guy cut that hair short years ago (probably due chemo) and still embraces the meme.
Luis Foster
WAN
Nicholas Bailey
MIRRION
Chase Phillips
PLEASE tell me he isn't terminal Please
Christian Hall
Tak Fuji looks honestly like the type of passionate dude you'd spend a night drinking with and discussing about life, it's cool that he tries to stay positive with all the shit that's happening to him and bring that positivity through his work for the players..
Ryder Butler
Dunno, but how can it be terminal? Tak getting cancer is quite old news so if he is still fighting it then I guess it isn't terminal, maybe he is just preparing for the worst?
Elijah Miller
He says himself there that it's incurable. Impression I get is that he's stable but he doesn't anticipate having more than 5 years left tops. Sucks, but what can you do?
Nathan Cook
TWOOPS
Justin Sanchez
fuck It's always the best people that don't get to live.
Levi Nelson
The kind of person gaming developing needs, but doesn't deserve.
Joshua Myers
>Embraces escapism >New game has you becoming the little girl /ourguy/
Ethan Reyes
>wun million pills fuck man
Julian Martinez
I love how this is the one guy that would legit be happy and appreciative if we sent him a card, but no, you idiots only send cards to mega corps.
Joseph Gutierrez
Iwata was the head of a megacorp, not a megacorp himself. And the card only hastened his demise.
Jonathan Phillips
I know stuff like that happens, but god damn i feel sad for the guy. He's been fighting but yet he puts the pleasure of making games and sharing them with people above all that like it's nothing. Motherfucking Tak Fuji ladies and gentlemen, i wish there were more people like him
Jace Long
>you idiots only send cards to mega corps. Iwata was passionate as Tak, only that Sup Forums was fucking retarded and sent the card to Nintendo Treehouse, the card is hanging up on SJW's living room wall right now.
Brayden Kelly
I think I'm actually gonna make a twitter and tweet him. is that how it works? Would he be able to see the message?
Alexander Ortiz
Yeah I really want this to get a release in North America. It looks like something that could actually do something with the HD rumble.
What sucks is that the Switch is region free but this probably isn't going to get a physical release so we won't be able to import it. I just want to support the guy.
Jace Lee
I doubt he even cares about the money at this point.
Mason Sullivan
Cool guy
Zachary King
I wish him the best
Nolan Butler
I think it just means they now gave him only a couple of months / maybe a year or 2 left to live.
Eli Walker
fucking polygon i swear to god
Jayden Hill
Twitter also lets you send direct messages instead of tweets.
Grayson Hill
HE WAS THE SICK GUITAR RIFFS ON SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT, for fuck's sake, how could I not know this. The guy has baggage.
Jordan Ramirez
I want to protect him from shitlords.
Andrew Martinez
Was he really? How'd you find that out?
Charles Roberts
Me too i want this guy to get the joy and happiness he deserves for working so hard to make people happy
Jaxson Gomez
Tak Fuji was mostly a sound designer and music performer at Konami, he only produced a few games in his final years there.
Kotaku didn't even die in the end after getting Hogan'd, some Mexican journalism conglomerate bought them out.
Cameron Cruz
That sucks. Ten years after his Konami meme conference, he dies. :(
Luke Anderson
>I might be stable with this condition for a while, or might have to enter to the hospital again soon... I can't control this so I decided not to think about my illness anymore and stay focused and thankful for extra days to live (TIME EXTENDED!), and think about how I can leave something after me.
Samuel Harris
DO NOT BULLY TAK
Noah Collins
>TIME EXTENDED! I read that in a Daytona usa voice. Fucking tak, I will literally never forget him. I never fail to smile when I think about that konami e3 thing
Daniel Hill
madman
Robert Carter
The treats wont stop flowing anons
Julian Hughes
Tak is the hero Sup Forums needs to stem the tide of newfags
William Flores
The world won't be the same with him gone
Parker Jackson
Makes sense that he'd be into making a rhythm game.
Jaxon Kelly
>"Will take wun million pills by the end of this nightmare"
