To close the year 2017, Dengeki held a number of interviews with top persons in the Japanese video game industry. One of them is Kenichi Ogasawara, the leader of Koei Tecmo Games’ Omega Force brand which is famous for making Dynasty Warriors, Samurai Warriors, and Toukiden series, as well as collaboration games such as Dynasty Warriors: Gundam, Dragon Quest Heroes, and Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom.
As Dengeki interviewed Ogasawara regarding Omega Force’s plans in 2018, they also included an interesting question about Toukiden, which has not seen any new expansions since Toukiden 2 was last released in Japan in July 2016 and internationally in March 2017. You can read the full interview below, which we have translated.
Dengeki: Please tell us how you looked back at your work and activities in 2017. Ogasawara: Since it was the memorial year for Omega-Force?s 20th anniversary, we planned and executed a lot of policies. So when I look back at how far we?ve walked through, we really have a lot of related people and fans who have been supporting us, and I felt really grateful on that throughout the year.
Dengeki: Please tell us a game released/announced in 2017 that pertains to your own work, and also the reason why.
Ogasawara: Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age. It has content and volume fitting as a compilation for its 30th anniversary. I?m showing my respect to everyone who is related to the project and have made the game. The daily life of going back ...