>Ninja Princess >Quartet >Alex Kidd >Fantasy Zone

>wasn't involved with PSIII and it was shit
i guess she's the phantasy star special sauce

She's pretty badass, yeah.

Now she's stuck making Japan-only mobile games. Life isn't fair.

Wait, who is this?

>>2897683
If you googled the image name, you'd have discovered this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rieko_Kodama

>>2897683
Rieko Kodama

>>2897683
It's Reiko Kodama

She also helped produce the
7th dragon series.

>>2896802
Goddess of ANTS.

It's OK if your pictures are more than 1mb OP nobody gives a shit about the poor people still on 56k dialup.

>>2898305
how dare you, she is pure

>>2898320
Why didn't you just post OP's image in high resolution, shitposter-san? Your post is incomplete.

>>2898326
>she is pure
Which one of those weeb virgins is a she?

>>2898334
Maybe not you but japanesegrannygamedevporn.com gets >9000 members every day. Don't judge.

>>2896802
She's 52, but as a thumbnail, totally fuckable.

I blame anime.

Great thread, by the way, OP. I appreciate people who try to highlight lesser-known figures in the development of beloved games.

>>2898460
cutie. that office looks comfy too.

>>2898519
I know right? xD

>>2898519
>kids got yeller feever
Yeah I know but she could be their gran. If it was the other way around someone would call the cops,

>>2896802
>Ninja Princess
2/5
>Quartet
2/5
>Alex Kidd
Which one nigga?
>Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa (sms version)
2.5/5
>Altered Beast (genesis)
2/5
>Phantasy Star
3.5/5
>Phantasy Star II
3.5/5
>Phantasy Star IV
4/5
>Sonic the Hedgehog
3.8/5
>Sonic the Hedgehog 2
4/5
>Magic Knight Rayearth (saturn)
?/5
>Deep Fear
?/5
>Skies of Arcadia
3.8/5

*yawn*

>>2898941
Maybe some of us like older gals? ;3

>>2898968
nothin' personnel kid

but for real, git gud. I don't know how anyone could give Altered Beast a 2/5

>>2896802
So she's an artist who did design work on those games? What of it?
I mean other than the fact that she's kind of a cutie who I'd let her ride my altered beast if you know what I mean.

>>2898979
>I don't know how anyone could give Altered Beast a 2/5
By being very generous and overly positive to a fault.

>>2898941
How old do you think people are on here? My parents are both in their 60s and my grandparents are dead.

>>2898984
Well, he's not exactly wrong, there's a ton of youngins on here, especially since we've been getting flooded by /v/ aged retards recently.

>>2898987
I guess that's true, since posts like 2898305 and 2898968 are becoming so common. Everything on here turns to shit eventually.

>>2898993
Don't forget about post 2898968.

>>2897771
Neat, are they reminiscent of Phantasy Star in any way?

>>2898979
Genesis alt beast sucks though

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This thread needs more Ninja Princess

>>2899068
It's more limited by hardware but the gameplay and levels are actually a bit better

>>2899068
What? it's a fantastiic port considering the limitations and being a launch title, even has some extra parallax.

>none of the four 7th Dragon games will ever be localized

>>2898968
What the hell, man? Quartet is great!

Especially if you play it with friends I assume

>>2899072
reiko a qt

>>2899118
>Especially if you play it with friends
God your an asshole.

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>>2897702
>Designer
>Designer
>Designer


I wish they were a little more specific, that literally can mean anything.
It's pretty obvious that Phantasy Star and Skies of Arcadia are her babies, but a lot of stuff it's so ambiguous how involved she was.

Why do artists as they get older they get "upgraded" to producer positions. It's pretty obvious where her true skills lie and I doubt that managing projects is the best way to squeeze her potential

>>2899183
Not according to what she said about Skies of Arcadia.

>>2899186
what did she say?

>>2899191
from 2004

>What was your favorite project to work on? What sort of games do you enjoy working on the most?

Kodama: Eternal Arcadia was definitely a favorite. That was the first game I acted as producer on, so I'm very close to it. I'm satisfied with everything I've done up to this point. I like doing RPGs and action/adventure games the most.

>>2899197
Intredasting, thanks for posting.

>>2899181
She 'designed' map and characters and backgrounds. They told her what they wanted or needed and she drew the fuck out of it however she damn well pleased, within spec.

>>2899202
Not just drawing, some worldbuilding and writing too.

>>2899181
In Japanese, デザイン will almost always refer to graphic design of some kind. It's just one of those shitty weeb translation problems where people will throw a shit fit if you don't translate a loan word back into its original form regardless of the actual nuance it takes on when it gets borrowed.

>>2899248
To be fair I see more good games than shitpiles.

>>2899258
This is true. Another one would be part time labor liberates.

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More princess please

>>2900902
>the queen of /vr/

she has been found

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>>2898460
>that Dororo drawn by Hiroaki Samura
I really wish he had worked more with games and other media, dude is one of the best artists out there.

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Ninja Princess ftw

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Actually loved Ninja Princess when I was a kid, if it's the same game I remember - think they renamed it The Ninja in Europe.

>>2902184
Yeah there's a couple different versions of it around. The original is still the best imo

>>2896802
>Magic Knight Rayearth (saturn)

But the SFC OST is better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MogN11QU8P4

>>2902278
But the Saturn absolutely everything else is better. Even the OST, actually.

>>2902184
did Ken Sugimori draw that looks like his art style?

>>2902278
>SNES music
>superior to anything

>>2902469
What, no it doesn't.

>>2898979
Most of the other opinions there just seem edgy, but actually that score seems generous. Altered Beast was shit. Me and a buddy played through both the Mega Drive and the Arcade version and while we had a few chuckles about how ridiculous it is, we weren't very impressed.

>>2902184
source?

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>>2903096
It's from a retro games mag called Gameside Action - picked it up in Akihabara a few years ago. Full of retro game art. Artist's name is Sasatomo (I think).

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>>2903882
>ywn get the chance to tell her a joke
>and make her laugh a day's worth of stress

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>>2903893

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<3

>>2898423
>She's 52, but as a thumbnail, totally fuckable.
Would totally fuck. She has aged really well, and still is a cutie.

>>2898979
Altered Beast fucking sucks. So does Golden Axe. Janky, unplayable garbage.

>>2896802
>Phoenix Rie is /vr/'s goddess
not just her

a lot of composers in the 80's and 90's too

Japan is a backwards sexist country, that's why she doesn't get no recognition.

>>2906559
lol more like because in general japanese game devs dont care about recognition at all

>>2906523
Golden Axe is okay, and has some great sequels.

>>2906559
Nah that's not it. Unless they've been working on mega popular AAA games for 35 years it's unlikely they'll get any recognition at all.

>>2906523
The arcade version of Golden Axe is tits

>>2906559
Poor Kojima-chan, Konami treated her so bad.