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[Sinue]

Thomas Nickel: Did you contribute in any way to Phantasy Star Online and Phantasy Star Universe? What do you think of the games? Do they feel like Phantasy Star to you?

Rieko Kodama: Sorry, I don’t comment on PSO/PSU.

Dunno how many of you have seen this. Seems to me to be a pretty clear case of "if you don't have anything nice to say..."

http://www.g-wie-gorilla.de/content/view/161/18/

But speaking of Kodama... what's she up to these days?

[BenoitRen]

Doesn't the interview say what she's up to? Nice find, by the way.

As for the quote... it could be interpreted either way, really.

[Sinue]

It just says PSP and NDS titles, but doesn't state which ones. The last named project I recall her being on was Altered Beast. The interview is a year old as well, so she's likely moved on to other projects or finishing up on her current one.

And yeah, it's only a "No comment", but it seems a shift from her attitude concerning at least PSO where I believe she's made the comments that she enjoyed it, and that it was interesting to see what other people were doing with the worlds she had helped to create.

[Missagh]

great find, I havent read this one before, I will post this in the Phantasy Star News!

[Del_Ian]

Yeah, saw that one. My reaction was 'Ohh, dissed!'. Heh.

[Edless]

Indeed, I saw that interview sometimes ago and thought exactly the same.

To me the "no comment on PSO" is explicit. Even though she had a politicaly correct answer in the begining of the PS"vowel" things:
"I am glad to see that people who played PS Serie are now making a new fashion Phantasy star" (or a comment of that sort), I believe those were not her real feelings.

[BenoitRen]

Not her real feelings? If she didn't want her feelings to be known, she could have said "it's good to see", instead of "I'm glad that".

I could always ask someone I know that has interviewed Rieko Kodama several times what she thinks.

[IndispensablePeaGuy]

Ffs, let it out, girl. Let it out.

[Edless]

Anyway that was just a feeling of mine.
I probably heard it the way I wanted it to be, so that I could find myself new arguments for not being a fan of the newest PS.

Not that I'll bash PSO or PSU since I actualy liked these games (at least PSO, I couldn't play PSU a lot) but, I feel like PS serie was more about a universe in itself, a location (Algo) than about newmans, darkforce and Foie techniques.

I searched for a former interview where Rieko Kodama comments positively her collegues work on PS so I won't argue.

Still your opinion (and your friend's one) interest me.

[Mister Death]

i like both classic and online PS (okay, so i don't actually like PSO much... i don't see the appeal of a game with one town and four very repetitive dungeons. but i didnt buy it after the original Dreamcast version, it probably got better after that.) but i don't think they have much to do with each other. PSO is more like a sidequest to the main PS, about what happened to the survivors who left the Algol solar system. PSU is set in a different world entirely that just happens to resemble Algol...

interesting theory about why there are so few female main characters. i don't really feel that the main character has to be like me to play the game, though. i have imagination. i pen-and-paper RP all the time as well and i really enjoy making characters who are nothing like me.

[BenoitRen]

i don't see the appeal of a game with one town and four very repetitive dungeons.

But it's addicting and fun! Also, there's the story. Still, you won't get the full experience if you don't play online like its title says.