Yes, it is really bad. You want to go to his birthday party.
wikilink here! In short, he's one of the madmen standing behind the crown jewels of the Mega Man series, including Legends. He's been campaigning for MML3 for about a decade, whenever not doing awesome things like, making Dead Rising. Or condemning Japanese developers as sad, cowardly, uncreative hacks.
But clearly, I just wanna be butt buddies with the guy, so take my words with a grain of salt.
Keiji Inafune sez, Japanese game makers five years behind
Why is it that I want to give this guy the manliest totally-not-gay hug all of the time? Or, like, an earth-shattering fist pound.
Almost as tragic are his given reasons for leaving, which basically translate to "The executives have been meddling too much with my current project and it's crap now."
His current project.
I thought that was integral to this being a "tragedy".
Shiggy and Horii have been feeling like exceptions to the rule of name-brand designers striking out and forming their own companies, because their purse-strings are too busy attending wild annilingus orgies. Which is weird, because when I think of Nintendo CEOs, I imagine that their every word reeks of shit.
