Akira Kitamura updated his work history to include details about what he did for each game...

Akira Kitamura updated his work history to include details about what he did for each game. I remember Sup Forums said when MN9 was announced that "Kitamura didn't do anything, it was all Inafune" Now it looks like, nope, those games really were his babies. Especially key is the character design, which he claims he did pretty much all of the designing for the first game.

>* Mega man (FC/NES : CAPCOM)

>Proposal / Planning / Direction / Setting(all) / Character design(90%) / Drawing Sprites(50%) / Writings(game text, ad text)

>* Mega man 2 The Mystery of Dr. Wily (FC/NES : CAPCOM)

>Proposal / Planning / Direction / Setting(all) / Character design(10%) / Drawing Sprites(10%) / Writings(game text, ad text)

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>Sup Forums said when MN9 was announced that "Kitamura didn't do anything, it was all Inafune"
Really? My memory serves that me and some others were trying to warn you about Inafune and none of you assholes listened. Fuck off.

I recently checekd the very first Sup Forums thread on MN9. I don't think you can look it up anymore in the archives. It was all of Sup Forums orgasiming about the "new mega man". Some people said they were crying. There were one or two posts critical of Inafune, but they were dismissed.

This was one of those posts.

>but they were dismissed.
So I wasn't wrong.
People were hellbent on defending him and orgasming about the new coming of Mega Man.

Inafune was way over hyped, and much of that is due to Inafune himself. Him and his PR machine hyped him up the best, and did little to clarify misunderstandings. Most people thought that he did everything since he was the only one who was promtoed.

That's why you have people who research. Do you instantly believe people in politics just because of hype, or do you do your research on who you vote for to understand where he really comes from and isn't just all talk? I refused to be taken in by mere hype, because that's what smart people should be doing, is carrying a little skepticism with them. Asking questions. You can talk about how it's their fault, but you also have the free will to stand against it, and if you don't use it, you'll always be a sucker for anything that does a flashy dance in your direction like the gullible public you are.

people are often very confused on the role of planner, director, and producer. Often, the producer is the public face of the series, so he gets all the credit, when they were really just often project managers who look after people, assign people to various things, and made the original proposal.

Igarashi is another example. He's given the credit of "father of Symphony of the night". He was co-writer, co-programmer, and then assistant director. Big roles, but the director/producer Toru Hagihara could probably be better said to be the "father" of that game.

The problem is that we don't have a "breitbart" version of vidya game journalism. I don't mean right wing, I just mean like a watch dog of bull. Even if you consider 90% of what breitbart and alternative media spew, they at least try to keep big whigs in check.

Currently all we have are the big game journalists, some cynical youtubers, and paid advertisers on streaming services, like twitchers. And those cynical youtubers literally only go for contrarian, low hanging fruit for views, like crowbcat and Jim Sterling.

There wasn't a single person, at least that I know of, who was calling out Inafune on his bull, except for a few other devs on twitter.

Brietbart has their own agenda, and dont' give a shit about facts. But you're right that game journalism is pretty much sings the same chorus, and their job is to PROMOTE games, rather than be objective.

Inafune is like the Tim Schafer of Japan. He did contribute to those games but he is not the creator.

You didn't need a "breitbart" site. If people like me didn't need it, then why would YOU? I'm not anymore privy to insider information than you are, and neither were any others on my side. We just took some time to look things up. And we may have seemed like "nobodies" back then when you all were hollering about how Inafune is God and all, but we certainly were not NOT calling him out. It's just that people readily dismissed us by surmounting numbers in order to try and obfuscate our defiance.

I'm not speaking for people well versed in their knowledge and history. I'm speaking for the general media. Perhaps you are just the man for the job?

Congrats for being a complete retard and missing the entire point.

>There wasn't a single person, at least that I know of, who was calling out Inafune on his bull, except for a few other devs on twitter.

Game journalists to this day still hype up Inafune as the series creator, and credit him with the gameplay.

Unfortunately here, that mindset gets you labeled as a pessimist by the idealist teenagers and uninformed individuals. There's never ONE person in a product, there's always multiple people working on something. Case in point, people like to use Aonuma as their punching bag for Breath of the Wild and other Zelda titles when it was Hidemaro Fujibayashi who directed Skyward Sword and Breath of the Wild. Aonuma's simply a producer, while important isn't necessarily the one person to point the finger at. Same with Miyamoto.

general population*

This is exactly what I mean.

>Perhaps you are just the man for the job?
I don't want to be a leader that people just follow the words of blindly or that would defeat what I'm trying to encourage, is the ability to think for yourselves and do your own research. It's a catch 22.

My bad, I see I left out a word in my phrasing. I meant
>Even if you consider 90% of what breitbart and alternative media spew BULLSHIT, at least they try to keep big whigs in check.

You're fighting an impossible battle then.

Most likely. But nobody can say we didn't try to inform people in any fashion. I'm sure there were dissenters in the MN9 forums, not that I could see since I wasn't a backer, but going by the drama about those forums I could imagine things were said along those lines.

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So many big words in this thread just to say the simple thing
Inafune is a hack

You are welcome

Kenji Inafune MADE Megaman

He made it all. How it plays, programmed the mechanics, drew everything.

HE IS THE FATHER OF MEGAMAN

I seriously can't believe people were this fucking stupid in believing this one guy not only created the character "Megaman", but also created the games itself, and by that logic he most know how to make a spiritual successor that's just as good as Megaman. And that's why we got a game that played almost nothing like Megaman

Inafune is an artist. He is clueless on gameplay. So MN9 has a bunch of designs that looks like Mega Man's chinese knockoff, but the gameplay is left to Inti-Creates who dropped the ball.

I think IC made the game shit on purpose because they hate inafune

Always blame incompetency first instead of malice.

Why is mighty gunvolt burst actually good though?

>. I remember Sup Forums said when MN9 was announced that "Kitamura didn't do anything, it was all Inafune"

I don't remember this at all. But I do remember lots of users getting mad as fuck at me every time I kept pointing out that Inafune did fuckall for Mega Man and hasn't been a creative force in any good games for decades or perhaps ever. I kept trying to tell people Inafune is a moron but no one cared. It's Yuji Naka shit all over again but these crooks keep getting away with it because gaming journalists can't be bothered to look at a credits for a fucking video game

Wait what was wrong with yuji naka

Not nearly as bad as Inafune. He actually did work on Sonic as a brilliant programmer but he didn't do the character design or level design. However, Naka keeps taking credit whenever possible. Might be because of incompetent journalists or because he's a fame hog

Isn't that handled by like a side team? On top of those games being rather short, and made to look like a NES game

Most likely due to incompetent journalists+ him being the last one to abandon ship.
The Sonic Trio has always been well known