Specialist RPG, Japanese Media Vision Studio has five developing games

Unusually discreet since the release of Valkyria Chronicles 4 in March 2018, Media Vision finally comes out of its silence in favor of an interview in the pages of Famitsu to appear this week.

Founded in 1993, Media Vision quickly entered the story by leaving its first game, crime crackers, in time for the Japanese launch of the PlayStation, December 3, 1994. The studio will link only a few months later with the Run & Gun Rapid Reload (Gunners Heaven In Japan), but it is mainly with Wild ARMS, released on December 20, 1996, that the studio will be named in the middle of the Japanese RPG. Especially since it will also be in charge of all the other episodes of the Saga on consoles until the Wild ARMS XF of 2007. In the early 2010s, while PlayStation Japan seems to decline from RPGs, Media Vision adopts the mobile With the Trilogy Chaos Rings. The studio then closer to Sega (Valkyria Chronicles 3, Shining Resonance) and Bandai Namco (Digimon Story: Cyber ​​Sleuth, Summon Night 6: Lost Borders).

Productive, Media Vision, however, disappears radars after the release of Valkyria Chronicles 4 in March 2018. As a 30-year approach, the studio finally gives its news and announces at Famitsu having no less than five titles in development. According to CEO Takashi Fukushima, it is a mix of original titles and control games, some on consoles and others for mobiles. If we can imagine that most projects are RPGs, some will mark an artistic turning for this very anime studio by offering a more realistic style than usual.

In the meantime, it will still be necessary to wait at least a year before discovering the most advanced game of the lot, even if it returns to its publisher to choose the date and place of the presentation. In addition, the time of the modest PSP productions is well over. "We are primarily trying to recruit staff with high-end game development experience. This includes people with UNREAL_" engine experience, notes Producer Harumi Umezawa. In the spring of 2021, Media Vision had 148 employees but his official website has not been updated since. On the other hand, a brand new Twitter account has just been created to follow the studio announcements and job offers.

Another important testimony, that of the Chief Executive Officer Kentaro Motomura, Veteran of Playstation (and producer of Wild ARMS, precisely) who joined the studio as part of the closing of Japan Studio. For him, Media Vision aims to develop games whose radiation must exceed the only Japanese market. "I works on an original title with creators that I know well thanks to my previous job. It feels that the Japanese Games market loses its vigor. We want to vitalize the Japanese Games market and therefore create titles that will be widely adopted abroad. "