Among the notable participants of the documentary, the most alert will recognize those of famous actors of the industry like Hideo Kojima (Metal Gear Solid), Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Rez), Fumito Ueda (Shadow of the Colossus), Kenichi Nishi (Moon: Remix RPG Adventure), Yoot Saito (Seaman) or even the musician and ex-game designer part-time Pierre Taki. His widow Yuka Eno will also provide her testimony.
Entertainment Imagination and Magnificence
The timing of the documentary’s release is not insignificant, with 2023 marking a decade since the death of Kenji Eno at the young age of 48. A standout figure in the industry, Eno expressed his interest in video games early on – first on the NEC’s PC-6000 microcomputers during his teens, then later in his early twenties by integrating the development studio Interlink with which he collaborated on three Famicom titles at the end of the 80s. Building on this first experience, he subsequently founded his own subcontracting studio EIM Ltd., whose activity remained focused on Nintendo 8-bit. We had to wait until 1994 (and a brief professional diversion into the automobile industry) to see Eno plunge into the multimedia CD craze with his new Warp structure and the release the following year of D (D no shokutaku) on 3DO, one of the few notable games on the Philips console, subsequently ported to PlayStation and Saturn. It was in the SEGA ecosystem that Eno continued his video game experiments: the horror game Enemy Zero in 1996 and the all-audio adventure game Real Sound: Kaze no Regret in 1997 on Saturn, then the sequel D2 on Dreamcast in 1999.
D, Enemy Zero, Real Sound… Today marks the 10th anniversary since Kenji Eno’s sudden passing. To commemorate this brilliant mind of Japan’s game industry, we’ve gathered testimonials from some of his friends, colleagues, and family. Teaser out now: https://t.co/K006DpMUdIpic.twitter.com/ZsVGsziioR
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