News: atsushi inaba interview

October 23, 2006, 11:53 AM

by brandon, via Clover -
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I (actually we - there was a super secret special insert credit guest as well) did an interview with atsushi inaba a while back, which I referenced in my 'clover studio dissolution' clarification post. It's up now, and has some interesting elements, such as the origins of Resident Evil 3 (used to be RE 1.5), the original RE4 becoming Devil May Cry, inaba's ties to Nazca and SNK, and other nerdy things.

As an aside, people have pointed me to some official press statements in which the name Clover is named as 'also being an abstraction of creativity lover,' which I suppose is possible, but he never mentioned it in the interview. It's also entirely possible that this was thought of and added later by Capcom PR, so it's tough to say without asking him directly, which is now quite difficult.