Former Yakuza game director Toshihiro Nagoshi has explained how his new company–Nagoshi Studio–plans to make games, and what his goals are for the studio’s first title. The good news for Yakuza fans is that Nagoshi still plans to lean heavily into creating games with a flair for the cinematic and the dramatic, as he has no interest currently in creating content for the smartphone market.
“We are influenced by movies and are interested in creating games that offer a high level of human drama,” Nagoshi said to IGN. “That’s what we find fun. Just as before, I hope to create games in that vein that can reach a global audience. So you won’t find us making, like, smartphone puzzle games or whatever. Those games are fun, but what we’re good at and what the world expects from us is games with dramatic and moving stories, and that’s what we want to make. So that’s where our focus is.”