Vanillaware Artist Moved Into The Mountains For Six Years To Create Lush Love Letter To Old School RPGs
Kotaku | 13.07.2026 00:57
When the COVID pandemic began, Vanillaware artist and developer Yoshio Nishimura departed the studio and moved into the rural mountains outside of Nara. For six years, Nishimura rekindled his love of early fantasy “gamebooks,” which heavily informed his work on Dragon’s Crown, Odin Sphere and Monster Hunter. Now that isolated labor of love is complete, and like minded sorcerers can step back into an idiosyncratic realm of paper and pencil.
