Mon, Mar 22, 2010 | 09:14 GMT

Sakaguchi: GoW III opening is too “long”

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Mistwalker boss Hironobu Sakaguchi has said he thinks God of War III is a “good game”.

But there’s one thing about Kratos’s latest the Final Fantasy creator doesn’t like.

“A long opening movie,” tweeted Sakaguchi. “It’s nicely done, but you don’t need this. It’s movie-like, but you don’t need long openings in games.”

That said, he still thinks the actioner’s great, as said in a further tweet.

“Sorry, my English is poor. lol Now I’m playing GoW3 and write some comments. This is [a] good game.”

God of War III released last week in the US and UK. It releases this week in Japan.

Thanks, Andriasang.

14 comments

Gekidami
22/03/10, 9:15 am

Is he talking about the intro before the title screen you can skip or the one you see when you hit new game which you cant?

Herlock
22/03/10, 9:19 am

The guy who make long CGI in video game talking…

mojo
22/03/10, 9:23 am

who cares?
seriously, is this realy worth a news?

anyway, cant agree with him. Find it very fitting..
the fight with kronos is the most epic moment in videogames history if u ask me. what a hell of a game.

DrDamn
22/03/10, 9:43 am

It’s probably still only half the length of a regular battle in Blue Dragon .

scratchy69
22/03/10, 9:46 am

Don’t listen to mojo Johnny – hits is what matters. Pat’s teaching you well.

one million
22/03/10, 9:57 am

He’ll follow with an apology, blaming translation difficulties and cultural differences, you’ll see.

Lutz
22/03/10, 9:57 am

This guy is clearly an idiot. The opening isn’t that long, about 5 mins, and Final Fantasy’s are somewhat on the CGI heavy side.

mojo
22/03/10, 12:25 pm

4:
i thought of the scale..

Kronos fucking finger is bigger then the average games Endboss. Fucking hell.

kombatero
22/03/10, 1:49 pm

Sakaguchi-san probably started his first play-through on normal. Then had some trouble on the first level (Gaia), decided to scale-down the difficultly to easy. But you can’t change the difficulty in the middle of a play-through, so he started a new game on easy. Then the long opening cutscene is played, but he wants to skip the cutscene since he has already seen it. Unfortunately, you can’t skip cutscenes in this game. So he tweeted, complaining about the opening cutscene while it is being played.

#10

OlderGamer
22/03/10, 1:53 pm

Kind of rich, a JP game dev complaining about a long cutscene.

#11

xino
22/03/10, 2:38 pm

lol..hypocrite:/

#12

mojo
22/03/10, 2:54 pm

9: u actualy can scale down to easy in the middle of a playthrough.

#13

Dannybuoy
22/03/10, 3:45 pm

Its not long enough!!