As Long As I Can

I Think What's Really The Most Ideal Thing Is For The Player Themselves, Within Their Own Imagination, To Carve Out What They View As Being The Essence Of The Character.

Fortunately, Because Of The Spread Of Smart Devices, People Take Games For Granted Now. It's A Good Thing For Us, Because We Do Not Have To Worry About Making Games Something That Are Relevant To General People's Daily Lives.

Our Job As The Game Creators Or Developers - The Programmers, Artists, And Whatnot - Is That We Have To Kind Of Put Ourselves In The User's Shoes. We Try To See What They're Seeing, And Then Make It, And Support What We Think They Might Think.

When I Look Around And See How Aged Cartoonists Continue To Work On Their Manga And How Movie Directors Create New Movies All The Time, I Understand That They Would Never Retire. And By The Same Token, I Guess I Will Still Be Making Games Somehow. The Only Question Is Whether The Younger People Will Be Willing To Work With Me At That Far Point In The Future.

I'm Very Impressed That There Are So Many Fans - Not Just In Japan, But Here In America - That Are Fond Of The Work That I've Done. I'm Actually Kind Of Embarrassed By It All.