

Very often I tend to think things like “why have they not done so and so?” This is what justifies me to come up with new concepts and ideas.”Īsked by one of EDGE’s journalists what he thinks of the PlayStation 3 he admits that he is very happy with what Media Molecule is doing with LittleBigPlanet. Question: Where do you get your inspiration?Īnswer: “I’m inspired from books and movies, of course, but the greatest inspiration I get is when playing others’ games. It surprised me very much that the characters we created were so emotionally well-received in the West.” This was something which we were completely unprepared for. A while before the western launch of ICO, SCEE rang up and asked us if we could create a custom cover for EDGE. Since I was born and grew up in Japan and around its culture, I created my games with the Japanese audience in mind. With ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, Fumito Ueda has managed to spellbind the western audience, something that he himself never thought of being possible.Īnswer: “Honestly, I am very surprised that my games are so popular in the West. During the lengthy discussion on whether games are art or not, whether the medium has or can achieve the same status as the other much older forms of expression, it is his work that is most often mentioned. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Question: Fumito Ueda is the creator of two of the most talked about games in the last decade. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.

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