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Hitoshi Akamatsu
>Writer, director, programmer for Castlevania 1
This guy is probably the "creator of Castlevania", as far as we can tell. But next to nothing is known about him. He left gaming soon after CV3 was released. At the time, gaming wasn't a secure field, and often companies treated their devs like shit, so many left. If Akamatsu had stayed, he would have risen the ranks of Konami and be as well known as Iga is today.
Do you think we'll ever track him down? What if he isn't alive?
There's so many questionsa bout the Castlevania series I'd like to know. Where did they base their design for Simon Belmont? Why does the series use hearts?
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>>383040183
The real question is orginal style castlevania the best or was the metroidvania style where the really took off?
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Rondo>3=SoTN>1>AoS>DoS>OoE>4
haven't played the rest.
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Konami only makes shitty mobile games nowadays. If he had stayed that's what he'd be forced to make
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>>383041648
We have exactly the same ranking, so you should play CotM and PoR since those are the two best handheld metroidvanias imo
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>>383041984
Oh, he would have been axed like Kojima was. But, the point is, he wuld have likely been in charge of the direction of the Castlevania series as a producer. That means the entire series would have gone into a different direction. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
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>>383040183
Did you know that every retro Castlevania game soundtrack outside of Bloodlines and SotN had all different composers?
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>>383040183
He made snake's revenge too btw
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Any more people who disappeared like this? It's pretty interesting
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>>383043250
Plenty, especially VG composers. The guy who did the Mega Man 2 soundtrack basically never worked as a composer again after its release.
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>>383040183
>At the time, gaming wasn't a secure field, and often companies treated their devs like shit
nothing has changed. it's maybe gotten worse.
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>>383043732
>The guy who did the Mega Man 2 soundtrack basically never worked as a composer again after its release.
Not true, he went with Akira Kitamura to Takeru. He worked on Cocoron. He even composed ab it for Mighty Number 9.
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,53477/
Yoshihiro Sakaguchi did a bunch of stuff too:
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,115966/
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>>383043250
Akira Kitamura (mega man creator) stopped being notable in the 90's after Takeru failed. He still worked in gaming until at least 1994. His site lists working on the Playstation, so maybe he worked a bit longer. No clue what he did after that or what he does now. His blog lists a bunch of anecdotes from childhood and his thoughts on gaming, like VR.
http://aknote.hatenablog.com/
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