Moon: Remix RPG Adventure Designer To Debut New iOS Game At BitSummit
Posted 15:54 EST on 25FEB2014 by: tim walker in news » bitsummit, hirofumi taniguchi, kazuyuki kurashima, million onion hotel, moon remix rpg adventure, yoshiro kimura
Game designer Yoshiro Kimura, best known for his work on cult classic Moon: Remix RPG Adventure for the original PlayStation, has announced on his company’s website that he will be showing a new game at this year’s BitSummit Indie Game Festival. Entitled Million Onion Hotel, the game will feature character designs by Kazuyuki Kurashima (Little King’s Story) and music by Hirofumi Taniguchi (Chulip).
Japanese news site 4Gamer.net has provided a summary of the game’s backstory:
“Long ago, there was an odd hotel that straddled the border between the nations of Atilano and Kotchirano, while being a part of neither land. That hotel served a special dish known as “Magic Onion Soup,” a mysterious concoction that brought happiness to anyone who tasted it! Many well-off individuals flocked from all over the land to try the soup, but those who had tried it never told anyone else about how the soup tasted, preferring to keep that delicious secret to themselves…”
“However, one night, the dignitaries staying at the hotel were suddenly sucked into a nearby galaxy!”
“….Perhaps they drank too much of the mysterious soup!?”
Kimura is planning to release the game on iOS later this year. “Even though this is very tiny work…I am very glad to introduce my new strange Characters and fellows to the world,” he writes about the game on Onion Games website (which happens to be fully in English). “Because this is my poem, this is my imagination 100%.”
Yoshiro Kimura originally got his start in the game industry by working at Square (now Square Enix) on games in the Romancing Saga series. He departed Square several years later with his comrades to form Love-de-Lic, where he worked on Moon and a couple of other quirky titles. Million Onion Hotel appears to be his first venture into mobile gaming.
BitSummit MMXIV will be held March 7th-9th in Kyoto, Japan. Notable guests for this year’s event include Masaya Matsuura (PaRappa the Rapper), Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Space Channel 5, Rez), and Manami Matsumae (Street Fighter II).
(Image Source: Onion Games)