While rumors abounded on the internet that legal problems were stopping a new Guilty Gear game from being developed, in a new Gamasutra interview, Arc System Works' Guilty Gear director Daisuke Ishiwatari tells us that nothing's stopping him now.
In 2009, rumors surfaced that legal issues with publisher Sega Sammy were interfering with plans for the continuation of the popular Guilty Gear fighting game series.
Once a stalwart of the fighting game scene, it was seemingly dropped by developer Arc System Works in favor of a new franchise, BlazBlue, which launched in 2008. While it carried over many of GG's signature elements, it was a totally new IP.
Gamasutra spoke to GG director Ishiwatari about the issue at the time, in a lengthy feature interview.
Citing rumors on the net, Gamasutra asked him what was up with the franchise. "I might not be able to provide answers there," said Ishiwatari. All the same, were the rumors on the net true? "Yeah, I can't really talk about it much... except to say that they're basically true," said a laughing Ishiwatari.
That was as close a confirmation as we were able to get.
But speaking to Ishiwatari at this year's Tokyo Game Show, we were able to find out that nothing is stopping Arc System Works now.
"Well, rumors are rumors," he said, once again. "I'd be lying if I said there were no problems at all, but much of that has been cleared away since. There's no impediment to making it now."
