KOFXIV director Yasuyuki Oda was previously SF4 battle director and game designer
To celebrate the launch of KOF98ol, the production team decided to take a tour to visit SNK Osaka Headquarters. They had a chance to sit down and briefly chat with the KOF XIV director Yasuyuki Oda. Head over to Orochinagi for a translation of the full interview. Though Oda did not reveal much in this brief interview, it is the first time we learned that Oda will be the director of KOF XIV.
According to the Moby games database, Oda spent his career at Dimps working on Capcom’s SF4 series. He started out as a battle designer for SF4, then as a game designer for SSF4 and SFxT, and also served as director of SF4:AE. Before joining Dimps, Oda was a former SNK employee from 1993-2000. He returned to SNK Playmore in February, 2014 according to Kof Koucha.
Given his long history with the SF4 series, there will be a good chance that we might see some of the SF4 influences in KOF XIV. Let us know in the comments what you think of this.
I just can said one thing to this guy… GO BACK TO CAPCOM!!!
He had previously worked at Dimps not CAPCOM.
SF SUCKS!!
but wasn’t that many SF4 guys were from SNK??
As long as he learns whatever SNKp fans appreciate as SNK legacy, identity and stuff and respect them it’s all fine.
IOW As long as soccer stays soccer and not baseball and knows its stuff, I’m all cool.
sorry for the double post. I was right. Please refer to the KOF koucha san’s article(Japanese)
https://kofkoucha.wordpress.com/
he was working for SNK 1993-2000. Gotta appreciae his origin.
you might also like his FB profile pic, too.
https://ja-jp.facebook.com/people/Yasuyuki-Oda/100008359335918
oh man!! I have a bad feeling about this already!! :X
He had previously worked in SNK (before becoming SNKP) & I’m quite sure he knows the critical elements of KOF as he said in interview.Let’s w8 & see what will shows at PSX.
Capcom vs SNK will still going on?
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