After passing through Capcom and creating some cult games, Gochi Suda, better known as Suda51, earned his place in the game development industry. Despite the fact that his studio just turned 25 and has no more than 50 employees, his plans are ambitious and he has just revealed the first details of his next project.
As we told you, the Japanese study is already part of the Chinese company NetEase, which will provide great support. Despite this, Suda mentions that he prefers to keep the studio small and currently has 50 employees, although he does not rule out reaching 80 in the next recruiting season of 2023.
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Grasshopper Manufacture is working on a large-scale action game
The titles of Suda and his studio are usually small or linear, but this will change with one of the 3 projects that he will launch within the next 10 years. It is important to mention that this figure does not include remakes or remasterings, so it is not ruled out that there will also be this type of release in this period.
Each of these 3 games will be from a new and original franchise and Suda revealed the first details of one of them, which will be large-scale action. According to the creative, the development of the project began in January 2022 and the prototype is expected to be ready soon.
Being on a large scale, it is estimated that its development will take a long time, but Suda is not worried, since he wants to “do something good even if it takes time.”
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What will the new Suda51 game be about?
Suda51 says that the study has received feedback from its followers, so it is aware of its strengths and weaknesses: “we are working to improve the strengths and reinforce the weaknesses.”
The creative explained that he knows that his strength is making action games “that cannot be done elsewhere”, but he also recognizes that one of his weaknesses is the move to large maps and not knowing how to project high-quality scenarios. However, he said that they are working with external studies to solve this deficiency.
Regarding the game’s minors, Suda announced that he will refine the action and that he will carry out ideas that he has not been able to bring to life in previous projects.
Suda51 and his studio’s titles usually have stories with characters that express themselves through text, but for his upcoming projects he wants there to be no written dialogue.
No further details were provided, but to commemorate 25 years of Grasshopper Manufacture and the opening of its new offices, Suda participated in an interview with Famitsu and in it he let us take a look at the first illustrations of the project, as well as a diorama of one of the game’s settings, although it looks blurry.
Another detail that was touched on in the interview is retirement and Suda was clear about it, as he mentioned that, despite the fact that he is 55 years old, he does not think of stopping making games and that he plans to continue with this way of life even when he is old.
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