“Our lead artist, Hidehiko Sakamura, is a giant fan of the Witcher sequence. We initially wished to succeed in out to CD Projekt to see if we had been ready to herald both Geralt or Ciri from The Witcher 3,” Miyauchi-san reveals. “At the moment, CD Projekt was really engaged on The Witcher 4. They had been telling us that plenty of adjustments had been happening round Ciri. To guarantee that they may hold the sequence’ branding constant, they didn’t need to put the IP out to completely different IPs at that second.”
This early effort so as to add Ciri or Geralt in Responsible Gear Attempt led to continued discussions between Arc System Works and CD Projekt Pink, with Miyauchi-san talking immediately with CD Projekt’s Japan nation supervisor Honma Satoru. With Satoru-san additionally a producer on Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, he really helpful the Attempt improvement crew additionally take into account crossing over with CD Projekt’s formidable sci-fi franchise. Seeking to introduce a novel character in contrast to some other beforehand established fighter within the Responsible Gear franchise, Arc System Works contemplated the inclusion of different Cyberpunk characters in Attempt earlier than deciding Lucy Kushinada was the most effective match.
“We had been enthusiastic about possibly bringing in Johnny Silverhand or V from the sport. After all, within the recreation itself, the primary character is the participant so it’s onerous to characterize that right into a preventing recreation,” recollects Miyauchi-san. “We ended up choosing a personality from Edgerunners, wanting into the characters, and we finally determined to choose Lucy.”
With a fifth season of DLC confirmed at Evo 2025 and Responsible Gear Attempt ported to the Nintendo Change at the start of the 12 months, Arc System Works remains to be onerous at work constructing out the favored title’s ongoing progress and powerful place throughout the preventing recreation group. Whereas there have been no formally confirmed plans for a sequel or standalone follow-up, Miyauchi-san has been speaking about his observations of Attempt intently with its director Akira Katano. These conversations have naturally included what the 2 would do if given the chance to work on a possible new Responsible Gear title.
“There have been plenty of experimental issues that we tried to do, seeing what might work higher. We’re doing plenty of autopsy proper now, seeing what labored, what was actually acquired nicely, what wasn’t acquired nicely, going over what was mentioned throughout the group,” Miyauchi-san observes. “If now we have one other likelihood to make a brand new Responsible Gear recreation, what may very well be executed higher is one thing that we’ve mentioned internally quite a bit.”
Responsible Gear Attempt is out there now for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Change, and PC. Lucy Kushinada, the ultimate character in Season 4 will probably be launched August 21. A fifth season of DLC is at present in improvement.
