“It’s truly one thing that we wished to do because the starting of the discharge of Responsible Gear Try. It was a bit of bit troublesome as a result of Responsible Gear is a giant sport and its characters have a protracted historical past,” Kidooka-san explains. “There are a lot of characters who aren’t out but that folks really need, however then we have to additionally introduce new characters. We wish to do all these issues. We truly wished to do that a lot earlier, and we want that we may’ve achieved this a lot earlier, however right here we’re in Season 4. Sooner or later, if there’s one other alternative to herald different collab characters, we undoubtedly wish to sit up for doing that.”
Past the extensive world of combating video games, Arc System Works has been increasing its library extra readily into different genres, together with publishing one of many earliest third-party titles on the Nintendo Change 2, the journey sport Pricey Me, I Was…. As a part of a fruitful partnership with Technōs Japan, Arc System Works acquired most of the firm’s most notable properties, which incorporates iconic beat ’em ups Double Dragon and River Metropolis Ransom. Since this acquisition, Arc System Works is planning for a contemporary revival of the Double Dragon franchise with Double Dragon Revive, out this October as the corporate appears to be like to department additional into the motion sport house.
“We wish to put as a lot effort as we do into these combating video games as we do with these motion video games, and never simply with the legacy titles, however we wish to introduce new IPs in addition to you might need seen with the June showcase. We wish to arrange a dual-axis format the place, on the one hand, now we have the combating video games right here, however we’re additionally pushing motion video games right here as effectively.”
I’m a self-avowed mega-fan of all issues Dragon Ball, together with the hit 2018 combating sport Dragon Ball FighterZ, developed by Arc System Works and revealed by longtime Dragon Ball license holder Bandai Namco Leisure. Arc System Works’ personal historical past with the Dragon Ball franchise stretches way back to 2004’s Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors. With that in thoughts, I closed out the interview asking Kidooka-san if he could be open to a different Arc System Works-developed Dragon Ball sport in any capability following the success of FighterZ.
“There are plenty of corporations on the market which are dealing with the Dragon Ball IP and making video games. It’s actually exhausting to discover a house inside that already congested sphere and discover a place for ASW that isn’t only a combating sport,” Kidooka-san admits. “If Bandai talked to Arc, it might most likely be about combating video games, nonetheless, as we mentioned earlier, about desirous to increase our model recognition all over the world by way of motion video games and fewer area of interest genres, our hope is that, sooner or later, they’ll come up and ask us to create an motion sport or a non-fighting Dragon Ball sport. That may be superior!”
Developed by Arc System Works and revealed by Sony Interactive Leisure, Marvel Tōkon: Preventing Souls can be launched in 2026 for PlayStation 5 and PC.
