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The Granstream Saga
An action RPG by Shade for the Playstation. Mostly interesting because the development team included a few people who worked for Quintet on the sorta-trilogy of Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, and Terranigma.
The Quintet Connection
Staff
The Japanese staff, according to Mobygames, are:
- Ryoji Akagawa - Producer
- Koji Yokota - Director, Game Design, Systems, Animation Sequences Director
Ex-Quintet. - Atsushi Nagashima - Production Director
- Takafumi Fujisawa - Sound Director
- Masamichi Seki - Sound Assistant Director
- Takayuki Gotoh - Character Design
- Rei Nakahara - Monster Design
- Hiromasa Ogura - World Design
- Tomoyoshi Miyazaki - Scenario
Ex-Quintet. - Masami Ohkubo - Scenario
Ex-Quintet (Terranigma only). - Tohru Iwata - Programming & Tools
- Shigeto Murata - Programming & Tools
- Makoto Kuniyoshi - Programming & Tools
- Hiroaki Gotoh - Programming & Tools
- Yukio Takahashi - Programming & Tools
Not ex-Quintet, but worked on some nice games! - Makoto Takahashi - CG Design, Modelling & Animation
- Kazuyoshi Watanabe - CG Design, Modelling & Animation
- Hisashi Yokota - CG Design, Modelling & Animation
Ex-Quintet. - Wataru Yanagawa - CG Design, Modelling & Animation
Ex-Quintet (Terranigma only). - Masanori Hikichi - Music & Sound Effects
Ex-Quintet (Terranigma only). - Miyoko Kobayashi - Music & Sound Effects
Ex-Quintet (Terranigma only). - Takako Ochiai - Music & Sound Effects
Ex-Quintet (Terranigma only). - Michiko Ogawa - Debug Manager
- Yoshiko Furusawa - Trouble Shooter
- Eiichi Abe - Title Logo Design
- Akira Sato - Executive Producer
Notes:
- Lots of guys worked on Ghost in the Shell, Omega Boost, and other SCEI stuff. Akira Sato (Executive Producer) was a founding member of that group, so I guess he took a lot of the Shade people with him.
- The significant Quintet people are the director Koji Yokota, the two scenario writers Tomoyoshi Miyazaki and Masami Ohkubo, and Terranigma's sound team Masanori Hikichi, Takako Ochiai, and Miyoko Kobayashi.
See Also
- Granstream Saga - a part of David DeRienzo's Quintet article on Hardcore Gaming 101.
the_granstream_saga.txt · Last modified: 2021/08/09 16:01 by rjt