Gaming fan Japan may be familiar with the name Vanillaware as the developer of popular titles such as Odin Sphere, Dragon’s Crown, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, and Unicorn Overlord. One thing these games have in common? All of them have not been released to the PC platform so far.
But who would have thought, recently one of their 2009 games – Muramasa: The Demon Blade, was suddenly announced to be coming to PC via Steam after 17 years exclusively on the Nintendo Wii console. This certainly makes many people wonder whether other Vanillaware games will experience the same thing.
George Kamitani as the founder of Vanillaware recently revealed (via James Mielke) that he actually wants more of his games to be released on PC, but that ultimately depends on the publisher who finances it. ported-he.
As side information, two decades ago, when Vanillaware was still called Puraguru, it actually had a contract with Enix to develop an MMO game entitled Fantasy Earth: The Ring of Dominion for the PC platform. However, after Enix merged with Square—becoming Square Enix, the project was taken over by Multiterm studio and changed its name to Fantasy Earth Zero.
The narrative would be that Vanillaware only releases exclusive games for consoles
This is of course considering that for a long time there have been various narratives circulating about Vanillaware only releasing its games exclusively on consoles. Like the assumption that the developer doesn’t want the game to be pirated or cheated-mod easily, down to just a more controlled console device ecosystem preference.
Kamitani’s statement seems to indicate that their small studio, which only consisted of 39 people when this article was published, is still dependent on help from publishers for development and marketing costs.
This is also considering that the development of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim and Unicorn Overlord is reportedly experiencing a lack of funds, which even makes Kamitani have to dig into his own pockets to complete the development of these projects.
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