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Brave Fencer Mushashi
Quick History
Brave Fencer Musashi is one of my favorite games from the late 90’s and was one of the first games I played before I knew who Square was at the time (besides playing Mario RPG as my first Square RPG)...1
Brave Fencer Mushashi
Quick History
Brave Fencer Musashi is one of my favorite games from the late 90’s and was one of the first games I played before I knew who Square was at the time (besides playing Mario RPG as my first Square RPG)...1
I tried to find everything I can about the game from old interviews and developer notes to piece together the development history of the game and how it came to be...2
I like to think of Musashi as a part of the experimental period of Square where they wanted to try other games besides Final Fantasy for example: Xenogears, Einhander, Threads of Fate and more to name a few...3
How it Started the Idea
Sakuguchi (Father of Final Fantasy) has said the idea came to him and Square’s B Team in February of 1997. The team wanted to make an action RPG and wanted to challenge themselves to make a 3D action game...4
Sakuguchi (Father of Final Fantasy) has said the idea came to him and Square’s B Team in February of 1997. The team wanted to make an action RPG and wanted to challenge themselves to make a 3D action game...4
Square was still used to 2D action RPG games ‘Mana Series, Act Raiser come to mind’ In interviews there were Ideas for a series of Musashi like games but only one sequel was made in 2005 (Musashi: Samurai Legend) and nothing after that...5
The Team
After researching Square’s B Team I’ve come to find out that most of the programmers and people who worked on Musashi are also Square’s Osaka team, the ones that been in charge of the Kingdom Hearts games since Re: Chain of Memories and Birth by Sleep...6
After researching Square’s B Team I’ve come to find out that most of the programmers and people who worked on Musashi are also Square’s Osaka team, the ones that been in charge of the Kingdom Hearts games since Re: Chain of Memories and Birth by Sleep...6
Other notable people like Director, Artist, Writer, and Producer are either MIA or retired but was able to scrape some information...7
Director: Yoichi Yoshimoto
Works include: Mushashi Samurai Legend (Sequel), Re: Chain of Memories (Co – Producer), Birth By Sleep (Co – Producer), 1.5 HD Remix (Co – Producer), Final Fantasy IV Complete Edition PSP (Director)...8
Works include: Mushashi Samurai Legend (Sequel), Re: Chain of Memories (Co – Producer), Birth By Sleep (Co – Producer), 1.5 HD Remix (Co – Producer), Final Fantasy IV Complete Edition PSP (Director)...8
The only games he directed were Both Musashi Games and Final Fantasy IV collection for PSP. Also worked at Konami in the late 80’s on Kid Dracula and served as Character Designer and Planner...9
Side Note: Last Game Directed for Konami was The Adventures of Batman and Robin for SNES (‘94) and also did game graphics, Directed Final Fight like game Batman Returns in ‘93 too...10
Producer: Yusuke Hirata
Did a lot of Advertisement for Square during their SNES days. The biggest games he helped advertise was Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG for SNES...11
Did a lot of Advertisement for Square during their SNES days. The biggest games he helped advertise was Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG for SNES...11
Games he helped produced: Front Mission (’95), Einhander (’97), Parasite Eve 2 (’99), and Final Fantasy Origins, Chronicles, and Anthology. He hasn’t produced a game since the early 2000’s...12
Writer: Koichi Ogawa
Story was written by Koichi Ogawa who was also a planner/designer on the Goemon games for Konami, on the SNES. It is interesting to see both the director and writer of Mushashi start from Konami and then switched to Square in the mid to late 90’s... 13
Story was written by Koichi Ogawa who was also a planner/designer on the Goemon games for Konami, on the SNES. It is interesting to see both the director and writer of Mushashi start from Konami and then switched to Square in the mid to late 90’s... 13
Latest credits are Designer on Kirby Mass Attack for the Nintendo DS (2011) and Chief Planner for Dragon Quest XI (2017). Was also a Dungeon Map Planner for Final Fantasy XI. (2002)....14
Artist: Koji Matsuko
Not is too much is known about the artist and only found one game he has worked on called “Messenger From Dark Knight” a pc visual novel. This is a great thread where one of the earliest designs for Princess Fillet in the game being reused for Musashi...15
Not is too much is known about the artist and only found one game he has worked on called “Messenger From Dark Knight” a pc visual novel. This is a great thread where one of the earliest designs for Princess Fillet in the game being reused for Musashi...15
Earlier inspiration for Princess Fillet design being reused for Musashi ...16
I enjoyed the character designs from Mushashi and Messenger due to the early 90’s aesthetic look similar to something like Tenchi Muyo or Slayer. The character designs are similar to the style of Final Fantasy Tactics (Akihiko Yoshida) with the “no nose” look...17
Also a shout out to @videoChess for the information about the artist. Found your thread in a google search and helped me out a lot, thank you!...18 https://twitter.com/videoChess/status/1113183770268467201
Illustrations: Tetsuya Nomura
The man the myth the legend himself. Similar situation with The World Ends with you he was not in charge of the designs but still drew illustrations for the game. Here is his art on Musashi and Fillet...19
The man the myth the legend himself. Similar situation with The World Ends with you he was not in charge of the designs but still drew illustrations for the game. Here is his art on Musashi and Fillet...19
Music Composer: Tsuyoshi Sekito
Also someone who worked at Konami and did Music for Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake and Snatcher. Brave Fencer Musashi was the first game he worked on at Square and did the Music for!..20
Also someone who worked at Konami and did Music for Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake and Snatcher. Brave Fencer Musashi was the first game he worked on at Square and did the Music for!..20
He would contiue to work at Square and do music for the Last Remnant and help do music for the Kingdom Hearts Series along with Yoko Shimomura and Takeharu Ishimoto...21
He also plays Guitar for the rock band the Black Mages along with other composers like Nobuo Uematsu and Kenichiro Fukui...22
