Edge was able to sit down with Marvelous Entertainment's chief creative officer Yasuhiro Wada, the father of the Harvest Moon series. In the interview, Wada is questioned on the state of the Japanese game industry.

The two major issues that he presents are the fact that Marvelous's name, because they have been responsible for not-so-great games in the past is making people being cautious about sales, along with the industry's overall over-reliance on familiar IPs, crushing original games.

Yasuhiro Wada, the creator of Harvest Moon, is chief creative officer of Marvelous, the Japanese publisher behind No More Heroes, Little King's Story and Muramasa: The Demon Blade. We met with him to talk about his views on the current state of Japanese game development, which he believes is failing to provide enough variety and fresh ideas and is resulting in a contracting games market in the country. But his views aren’t taken very well by Japanese gamers. Here, he speaks frankly about why, along with how the 360 has failed to take off in Japan and why Marvelous’ games review well but don’t do so well at the cash till.

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