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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Tatsuya Izumi has announced this departure from Nippon Ichi Software while now being a freelancer and seemingly establishing a new company called 26Works. However, further details were not provided.

Izumi played integral roles in several notable projects, such as Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk, Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society, the Prinny series, and The Witch and the Hundred Knight.

Thanks to Noisy Pixel, Gematsu and Denfaminicogamer for sharing this news.

 

[IAmRei]

dang, i will miss this guy, His games are rocking solid.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

I liked Witch and the Hundred Knight.

 

[[Sigma]]

I remember playing The Witch and Hundred Knight for first time going into it blind and slowly realizing how dark it is lol. I liked the game despite the technical problems it had on PS3.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I liked Witch and the Hundred Knight.

I remember playing The Witch and Hundred Knight for first time going into it blind and slowly realizing how dark it is lol. I liked the game despite the technical problems it had on PS3.

Thanks for convincing me to play it

 

[Darkmakaimura]

I remember playing The Witch and Hundred Knight for first time going into it blind and slowly realizing how dark it is lol. I liked the game despite the technical problems it had on PS3.

There's a PlayStation 4 Revival version.

It includes new content and fixes some of the technical problems especially the game breaking bug that some say even bricks your PlayStation 3.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Thanks for convincing me to play it

Make sure you get the PlayStation 4 Revival version because as mentioned above, the PlayStation 3 version has some real serious bugs that some claim even have bricked their PlayStation 3.

Plus the Revival version has additional content.

Anyways, it's probably what one would consider a Japanese Diablo APRG but also quite different. You should definitely check it out.

 

[Shake Your Rump]

I liked Witch and the Hundred Knight.

Yeah, so did I... until it crashed several times and I lost hours of progress. They never fixed the crashing bug on PS3.

 

[GHound]

Shame, I can't say NIS has a glut of decent directors or game designers to be losing arguably their best.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Never played any of his stuff, but I've been tempted by the Refrain and Galleria games. Witch and the Hundred Knight also seems interesting - didn't even realize it got re-released on PS4 or that there was a sequel. Maybe I should finally give some of this stuff a chance.

 

[Deerock71]

He's going to be missed.

 

[kunonabi]

I liked Witch and the Hundred Knight.

Witch somehow ended up being my favorite PS3 game. Gameplay is whatever but goddamn did I get emotionally invested in the story. Ended up buying all kinds of art books and figures for it too.