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At 58, man wtf is up with people passing so early. Man deserves his flowers as creating some of the best (in a lot of peoples opinions THE best)action games of their generation to that still hold up.crazu how this happened right when Ninja Gaiden 4 is getting ready to come out. Obviously he didn't work on it though. I hope he was consulted for it, and was proud of what they did as the sorta last thing before he passed.

Ninja Gaiden was the action game to beat back then (still now don't get me wrong) both literally and figuratively.I hope they made NG4 dope man. Asked a friend to deliver a final message to his fans Incase of his death apparently so he must have been sick or something and knew his time was running short

Only playing dead or alive xtreme beach volleyball today

A great mind and creator, RIP legend

His influence on action gameplay cannot be understated. RIP

rip

And few days before Ninja Gaiden 4 too, damn it's poetic.

DoA is one of my favorite game series just on how fun a fighting game could be with friends or by yourself (xtreme beach volleyball ), RIP to a legend

smfh RIP legend

So is he dead or alive?

RIP goat.

devs don't have aura like this no more

RIP to a GOAT dev

Can't wait for NG4

Chibi-Robo had just released in Japan (June 2005) and it already shot up among his top 5 at the time
That’s what I call recency bias

Closest one I can think of is Josef Fares, dude who's made all of those co-op only games like it takes two, a way out, and whatever the latest one was that won game of the year. Depends on what you mean by aura but I think they are similar in some ways.

the entire Tekken franchise at that point lmao

Standing on bidness

Harada's post about Itagaki yesterday

Some def do but they're seen as corny now smh