Oral histories
Sensory Overload: A music game series
Check out our series looking back at the making of five music-based games, with stories on Rez Infinite, Sound Fantasy, Electroplankton, Otocky, and Sayonara Wild Hearts.
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How Simogo built Sayonara Wild Hearts' best stage
We talk with four members of the team about how "Begin Again" came about, why it took them a year to finish it, and the challenges of building something new.
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Toshio Iwai's journey from Sound Fantasy to Electroplankton
We profile the artist behind two of Nintendo's attempts at making experimental music games -- one a canceled Super Famicom game based on musical insects, and the other a Nintendo DS cult-favorite based on electronic plankton.
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A rhythm-based shoot-'em-up in... 1987?
Before making Sound Fantasy and Electroplankton with Nintendo, Toshio Iwai designed a Famicom Disk System game starring a flying “sound warrior” called Otocky.
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After almost a decade, Rez Infinite remains gaming's greatest tease
“If we're using the word ‘prologue,’ obviously something has to come after...”
