Japanese programmer, producer and game designer Yuji Naka, also known as YU2 or Muuu Yuji, confirmedthat he left at the end of April Square enix… He did not name the reason, promising to tell about it in due time.
However, Nucky’s resignation is easy to associate with a financial failure. Balan wonderworld… The platform musical in the first week of sales in Japan was bought only 2,100 times, and in the UK charts the game did not even hit the top 40 positions.
During Tokyo Game Show 2023 Yuji Naka admitted that the president of Square Enix gave him “the only chance” to create a large-scale platformer game. To do this, the “creator of Sonic” joined forces with Naoto Oshima, who came up with the designs for Sonic and Eggman.
However, the past merits of the veterans did not help make Balan Wonderworld a good game: Metacritic her average score on PC is 38, and on Nintendo Switch – even 36.
Yuji Naka does not make big plans for the future: he is 55 years old, and he is seriously thinking about retirement.
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