In 2021, the producer of the new work “Baran’s Whimsical Wonderland” and the father of “Sonic Boy” announced on his personal Twitter today (5) that he has resigned from Square Enix.
The 55-year-old Naka Yuji said in the statement that he could not mention the reason for his resignation, and did not disclose the next career goal, but revealed that the possibility of retirement is not ruled out.
Incidentally, Naka Yuji specifically mentioned that the photos used in the Twitter statement were taken during an interview with the “Sega Hard Historia” special issue.
This special issue is in July 2021. It consists of Japan’s first SEGA console special publication “BEEP! MegaDrive”, plus three publications “SEGA SATURN Magazine” and “Dreamcase Magazine”, to gather the essence of SEGA’s 60th anniversary.
I retired from SQUARE ENIX at the end of April 2021 because I would like to contact the media and users. I can’t talk about the reason now, but I hope I can talk about it when the time comes. As for future activities, I’m 55 years old, so I may retire. The photo is taken by Sega Hard Historia. pic.twitter.com/YgFT0eq2Jk
— Yuji Naka / Yuji Naka (@nakayuji) June 5, 2021
Naka Yuji joined SEGA as early as 1984, with his representative works “Sonic Boy” and “Phantasy Star”; in 2006, he participated in SEGA’s independent support project for game creators and founded Prope Studio. Joined Square Enix in 2018. In 2020, he will release the new brand studio “Balan Company” and the new work “Balan’s Whimsical Wonderland”.
Although “Balan’s Whimsical Wonderland” was led by Yuji Naka and Naoto Oshima, who designed the Sonic Boy, it attracted attention beforehand. However, after the work was released, although the original world was generally praised, the actual gameplay was rated as good or bad. Different.
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