| Destiny of a Dragon - Toshihiro Nagoshi, the Man Who Made Ryu ga Gotoku |
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| 龍の宿命 『龍が如く』を作った男 名越稔洋 |
| Pages: 173 |
| Published: 21 June 2010 |
| ISBN: 978-4-04-653706-5-C0095 |
Destiny of a Dragon - Toshihiro Nagoshi, the Man Who Made Ryu ga Gotoku
There's no way a game like this will sell! Ryu ga Gotoku - an unheard of action game set in a red light district. How did producer Toshihiro Nagoshi go about creating the game whose development everyone opposed? The truth is now revealed. This book documents Director Nagoshi's upbringing and the secrets of the formation of the ultimate team. Destiny of a Dragon: the assembly of those who created a hit.
Contents
Intro Chapter - What is Ryu ga Gotoku, the Huge Hit Game?
Chapter 1 - Let's Make a Never-Before-Seen Game! Toshihiro Nagoshi Gambles Everything on His Challenge
- Consolidation of Sega subsidiaries. Starting from a crisis
- No one understands the charm of the "new game"
- Nagoshi and Kikuchi's miraculous chance meeting
- Self-sacrificial persuasion, prepared to quit
Chapter 2 - A Drama to Move Adults... The Feelings Put into the Scenario
- Being involved in the lives of people important to you...
- The addition of Masayoshi Yokoyama, a man with no experience writing scenarios
- Troubles with writing a game scenario
- The Spartan guidance of Seishu Hase, the authority on hard-boiled
Chapter 3 - How Do We Release This? - Review and a Desperate Door-to-Door Campaign
- The towering obstacle of the "review"
- Is the depiction of a little girl trembling in a sea of blood necessary?
- Public affairs force a tightening of restrictions
- Publicity holds the key. Desperate door-to-door advertising
Chapter 4 - RGG1 Finally Released. To the Next Battle
- From only 70,000 copies to an unexpected hit
- Onto the next game in just 10 months. Kikuchi's resolution
Chapter 5 - Let's Plan a Megalith of a Hit Title! Wave After Wave of Promotion
- No experience with promotion!? Uemura joins
- Promotional tie-ups give the game's setting its charm
- Shifting the game's charm with tie-ups
Chapter 6 - The Dragon Becomes a Legend
- RGG2 released. Shocking sales within the first month
- The first spin-off, Kenzan!. The setting is Gion, Kyoto
- RGG3 sees big changes in staff and businesses
Chapter 7 - Let's Aim Even Higher! A New Challenge with RGG4
- A drama shown from the perspective of men living in Kamurocho
- "A chance could come at any point in life" - Akiyama
- "Persisting through life as an idiot isn't always bad" - Saejima
- "Sometimes you discover things by persisting" - Tanimura
- Benefits of increasing the number of protagonists
Chapter 8 - The Next World Aimed for by Nagoshi, the Man Who Planned the Legend, and Destiny
- Ryu ga Gotoku continues in a new direction
- What he always wants to show is "human drama"
- Beginnings of Kurohyo - Ryu ga Gotoku Shinsho
- Facing the challenges of expression in games
- The destiny of raising people
- What he wants to say to young people aiming to join the gaming industry
- What he wants to say to everyone
Articles
- Ryu ga Gotoku
- Ryu ga Gotoku 2
- Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan!
- Ryu ga Gotoku 3
- Ryu ga Gotoku 4 - Successors to the Legend
- The numerous masterpieces Nagoshi has previously had a hand in
- Creating the CG for Kamurocho, a town swirling with desire and ambition
- Behind the scenes of character creation, shifting the charm of the game
- Kiryu and Haruka guided by fate - publication of the storyboards of their chance meeting
- The hidden destiny and aesthetics of the tattoos the men bear
- Character CG intensifying the realism - analysis of the white-hot battle scenes
- Particulars of the sound and voices that give the game world its life
- Even the former fourth chairman can be extravagant? Change of the night spots
- The dangerous games of the red light district, which become surprisingly addictive
- The destinies shouldered by the men who become mixed up with Kiryu
- The place where the dragon was born - coverage of a day at the workplace
- The beauty of a film different from the game - live-action version Ryu ga Gotoku
- The business tie-ups that expand the world of RGG
- Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa... showing the character of each town
- Delivering the game's charm via radio, "Kamurocho Radio Station"
- Notable new elements and systems from Ryu ga Gotoku 4
Resumes
Conversations
Columns: Outside of Kamurocho
- CERO and platform review
- Secrets behind the birth of hugely popular character Goro Majima
- Several goods based on the individual characters
- Kazuma Kiryu's mystery-shrouded source of income
Website columns
- What kind of person is Toshihiro Nagoshi? 1
- What kind of person is Toshihiro Nagoshi? 2
- Uemura talks about Nagoshi
- I started researching Toshihiro Nagoshi...
- A man who sticks to his principles, even in dieting!