Sohei Niikawa, President of Nippon answered some questions during an AMA on Reddit. Many questions were focused on the possibility of amiibo for Disgaea, a new sequel for Phantom Bravel and the possibility of a new Disgaea game for Switch.
We’ve picked some of the top questions asked during the AMA.
Read all of them here:
Q. Now that Disgaea is on the Switch, are there any plans to make Disgaea Amiibo?
A. We would love to make a Disgaea amiibo. Let’s get a petition going! We’ll 1 million signatures! Hopefully that will get Nintendo on board.
Q. Is there any plans for the next Disgaea game to be on the Switch?
A. Most likely…
Q. Will we ever get a Phantom Brave sequel?
A. This was a story that I originally did not have a sequel planned for. However, there are many people at NIS that have asked this same question and some that even join the company with desires of creating a sequel. I would love to see these people get together and perhaps create a Phantom Brave 2.
Q. What was the biggest inspiration in creating disgaea? Was it to change how SRPGS are made?
A. I wanted to created Disgaea because…
After I created La Pucelle I was thinking about what to make next… Keep in mind, back then we were only capable of creating one game… Therefore we gave it our all into one title per year. (if it tanked our company would go down under…)
I thought really really hard because I had peoples lives on the line… and the answer I came up with was… やべぇ分かんねぇ(Translation: Crap, I don’t know)
So, I got together with the head game designer and head art director and decided on one thing: The game will be set in the Netherworld. I wanted a demon main character and by doing this we thought we would be allowed to do anything. (no morals, I guess)
Lastly, We combined our ideas that we thought would be fun and that’s how Disgaea was created.
Also, we didn’t really want to change the SRPG, we just wanted to do something different. We’re a small company away from the city, so we couldn’t compete with bigger companies in the city.
Q. I love that the latest game made its way to the Switch, for my question I was wondering if you’ll continue to bring future Disgaea games to the Switch?
A. Currently we don’t have any plans to release past Disgaea games on the Switch, but if things go well with Disgaea 5 Complete, this is definitely something we would like to look into.
Source: Reddit
