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FFXII And Vagrant Story Designer Working On MadWorld

Legendary Yasumi Matsuno joined the team at friend's request.

By Kat Bailey, 02/16/2009

Final Fantasy XII certainly has its share of fans, some of whom might say that it's the best of the franchise. Unfortunately. much of the team has dispersed since the project's completion. But at least one seems to have found a place at Platinum Games.

GameSpot has an interesting tidbit in their preview of MadWorld, noting that Vagrant Story, Tactics Ogre and FF12 designer Yasumi Matsuno is lending a hand on the game's scenarios. He was tapped by his friend Atsushi Inaba, who has a bit of experience himself thanks to his work on Viewtiful Joe, Okami and God Hand.

Make of this information what you will, but that's quite a bit of experience right there. Consider our expectations raised.

psh, FFXII the best in the series, ya right >.>

but I have yet to play the other games he made.

The guy in the middle to the right is making a weird face..

I hope MadWorld gets some good advertisements and promotion. I also hope that the game will gets some decent sales.

im still hoping that hes walking on that RPG with monolith

Ha !he isn´t making that epic rpg alongside with monolith.In you face soriku :P

his hair is weird, it looks like a wig

Whoever worked on it Madworld looks like an awesome game. It actually has me comtemplating picking up a Wii :)

People can work on more than one game--especially scenario writers.

I really wanna play this.

Wow, sweet. I love matsuno's work. IGN did say they were surprised by the game's compelling narrative in one of their recent "mad world month" updates. I guess that would explain why.