Shinichi Kameoka is headed back to the world of consoles. In a group interview on the Japanese website 4Gamer, Kameoka – an artist known amongst JRPG fans and current artist working on Egglia: the Legend of the Redcap – revealed that in 2018 he will be returning to an old-style console title after being removed for some time.
According to Kameoka (via DualShockers), the information regarding his return to console games will be made available by either the end of the year or in 2018. In the meantime, he encouraged fans to look forward to the announcement, saying it could be something totally unexpected. As far as the Egglia series goes, Kameoka said more updates and events for the mobile game will continue into next year.
If you?re unfamiliar with Kameoka and his work, you only need to look to the distinctive art style of the Mana series, which he was mainly responsible for. He?s credited with artwork on a number of classic RPGs, including Sword of Mana, Legend of Mana, Saga Frontier, Seiken Densetsu 3, and Secret of Mana. Currently, Secret of Mana is getting the remake treatment, so the timing of this announcement couldn’t come at a better time. For more on the upcoming remake, check out our Secret of Mana preview. Here?s what Tyler had to say about it:
My demo ended with the game?s first boss battle, which has the player taking on a huge monster. In fact, it actually managed to trap me in one of the corners of the small battle area, and I couldn?t get ...