Kunoichi: Sega Wow Video Interview

In our latest video interview, we sit down with Kunoichi's producer at Sega Wow, Masahiro Kumono, for a chat about Shinobi's imminent sequel.

Kunoichi is more than just the sequel to Shinobi. For the reborn and continually evolving Sega, it represents a key mission - for some of the company's strongest creative talent to revive a sprawling back catalogue of intellectual property - and something that recently-appointed president Hisao Oguchi believes is fundamental to the company's success.

Masahiro Kumono is a prominent CGI artist at Sega. He's worked on some of the most stunning CGI sequences across the company's range of studios, but he also manages the development of several titles at Sega's newly-formed Sega Wow studio, the product of Nakagawa's Wow Entertainment and Oba-san's Overworks. Kunoichi is currently the studio's biggest project on the Overworks side of the fence.

We recently got some hands-on with the latest version of the game and sat down for a chat with Kumono-san about the game. In this latest video interview, we cover the following topics.

• How criticism of Shinobi has impacted the development of Kunoichi, what has changed and what is the same.
• What makes Kunoichi different from the abundance of ninja-themed titles on the market
• The lead character - who is she, where's she from and what's her past?
• The visual style of Kunoichi and how the story unfolds through 40 mins of CG sequences.
• Diversity in gameplay - what the team is most pleased about, now development is nearly complete
• What has Oba-san contributed to the game as president of the old Overworks studio?

Be sure to find out all the details in our latest video interview which, just for a change, we've decided to subtitle in English instead of voiceover. Usual mix of cool new game clips included. Enjoy.

Adam Doree
Director, Kikizo.com