John Harker said:No one's translated the Mikami and/or Suda interviews yet?
The first page has already been translated over at Gamefaqs. I'll bold the interesting parts.
Dans my name said:- So how did you two meet?
M: I introduced him to the director of Tekki ( I don't know what game this is), Kouno Hifumi. "We need good creators, I'd want to be introduced to some" he said. And Suda came to Osaka. This was before Killer7.
-So before that, what kind of impression did Mikami have on you? (to Suda)
S: Mikami and Kojima (Hideo) were like above the clouds to me. I was so nervous when I met him.
M: More like weren't you disillusioned?
S: Well, more than disillusioned, Mikami, your eyes were so big and bright, I was surprised.
M: That was it.
- Haha. So when Suda came, what was your first impression of him?
M: I thought he was absolutely a businessman. That he could be careful and strict, like what a professional. That was the beginning of my mistakes.
- Haha
S: I don't think thats a mistake
M: Yeah, I you're a good guy, but when it comes to making something, I cant just pass it all to you.
S: Yea, and unexpectedly you didn't, right?
- So what have you been up to recently?
M: Well I havent begun development yet and am very free. I'm just in a state where I can't start moving.
When you draw out a plan for too long, it just gets messed up. Its been one year that Ive been open after Godhand and mentally, its gotten really hard. I need to move fast.
S: Its really restraining for a director to go a year without making something. For people who live just to create, its very hard.
M: Not like as much as an athlete, but when a baseball player is injured and away for a year, returning is tough. My senses have dulled, and there is a subtle change in my craft. I've become Urashima Taro. Thats no good.
-Mentally? Or your craft?
M: Its both. And I'm physically exhausted. Because its really tough being at the development studio. But latter it will slowly come back to me. It like I'm running a marathon and I have to wait for a traffic light.
- But when you made RE4, you just kept on running, rright?
M: Thats right, but while doing that the whole staff combined craft, skill and know-how all together so we could make something great in a short period, so I was abole to ride that out.
- And in the end, it was a great run
S: That year RE4 just swept all the Video Game Awards throughout the whole world.
M: But individually I couldn't take all the credit.
S: Eh, really?
M: (This is too obscured by glare)
S: Well, you were the producer.
M: Yea, but if you think of it as if I cultivated it as producer, thats terrible. I didn't really get to do what I wanted to, so it became a great game.
S: hahahahahhahahahah
- So Sude, do you save?
S: I always save. ...... no, thats a lie. Sorry. In Killer7, I didn't save. Since I was allowed a lot of freedom, I packed in everything I wanted to do.
M: That game a a great scenerio. This time, No More Heroes looks like it was directed ridiculously, and that make it interesting. Killer7 was really narrowly aimed, but NMH will be wide.
S: Actually, there is a lot of inspiration from Mikami there.
- Like what?
S: Well first of all the design. I learned skill, sense and know-how from Mikami, and its all hidden in NMH. What I learned from Mikami and what I learned from a textbook called "Godhand" made this.
M: Wasn't a really hard textbook, right?
S: And then there's the Major feeling ( have no idea what he means here, because he uses the english "major") Killer7's scenerio, characters, design I thought was all major. But I learned all the "underground parts" from Mikami.
M: Thats the first time I've heard that.
S: In my own way, I am considerably conscious of my fans. When I made Killer7, I learned from Mikami what I should to to make the game worthwhile and easy to understand to the player.
- So do you guys talk on the phone a lot? What do you talk about?
He said he'll do the second page soon.