Ryosuke Yoshida Director of Visions of Mana now joins Square Enix!
After experiencing the bitter loss of his studio being shut down following the release of Visions of Mana, Ryosuke Yoshida, who was the director of the game, has finally decided to move and join Square Enix.
The sad story of this beautiful game, where its studio was immediately shut down after the release on August 29, 2024, is surely still fresh in the minds of gamers. How could Ouka Studios, which achieved great success, be suddenly ended by NetEase, its owner?
It turns out that the unfortunate fate of Ouka Studios was caused by a strategic shift from NetEase, the large corporation from China. They decided to no longer support Japanese game studios and focus more on games made in China. The success of Black Myth: Wukong seems to increasingly convince the company about the potential of developers from the bamboo curtain country in the future.
In his tweet, Ryosuke Yoshida revealed that he has not been working at NetEase since the end of October 2024 and is now joining the developer team at Square Enix this December. He also expressed his gratitude to the team at NetEase and committed to creating games that can be enjoyed by many gamers in his new place.
Yoshida's experience in developing Visions of Mana seems to be very suitable for Square Enix, which can be said to be the home of the Mana game series itself.
