{"id":126279,"date":"2022-07-05T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-134041"},"modified":"2022-07-05T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T20:30:00","slug":"yuji-naka-erases-former-co-worker-and-sonic-creator-naoto-ohshima-from-team-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/07\/05\/yuji-naka-erases-former-co-worker-and-sonic-creator-naoto-ohshima-from-team-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuji Naka Erases Former Co-Worker And Sonic Creator Naoto Ohshima From Team Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b5c1007b8e70b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b5c1007b8e70b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b5c1007b8e70b\/nights.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Nights\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Naka has posted some tweets which appear to give a little more insight into the altered photo:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How would you feel if you were suddenly removed from a game that you had worked hard on for over two years, and when you went to court, you found out that they had been talking about me behind my back in court documents and that is why I was removed from the game?<\/span>\u2014 Yuji Naka \/ \u4e2d\u3000\u88d5\u53f8 (@nakayuji) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nakayuji\/status\/1544386654151909376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What would you do if you were to be ill for a long time and unable to do anything because of it? And how would you feel if you were the director of an unfinished game and it was heavily criticized?<\/span>\u2014 Yuji Naka \/ \u4e2d\u3000\u88d5\u53f8 (@nakayuji) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nakayuji\/status\/1544386657712934912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It would seem that Naka is referring to the fallout surrounding the release of the much-derided Balan Wonderworld, which was created alongside Ohshima.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Original Story [Tue 5th Jul, 2022 21:30 BST]:<\/strong> Things are seemingly not well in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/balan_wonderworld\">Balan Wonderworld<\/a> world, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/05\/square-enix-declines-to-comment-on-yuji-nakas-balan-wonderworld-lawsuit\">seemingly-ousted creator<\/a> Yuji Naka has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nakayuji\/status\/1544235117073166337\">taken to Twitter<\/a> with a rather passive-aggressive way of showing his displeasure.<\/p>\n<p>Naka posted a photo of the <strong>NiGHTS<\/strong> team in celebration of the game&#8217;s 26th anniversary, showing the original team who made the game, with one conspicuous absence: Naoto Ohshima, the creator of Sonic and Naka&#8217;s co-worker, who was the character designer on Balan Wonderworld, and the vice president of Arzest, who co-developed Balan Wonderworld.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy Birthday NiGHTS!<br \/>26 years ago, NiGHTS was announced at this Sega Saturn new software presentation. Bomberman and Enemy Zero were announced together.<br \/>I&#8217;ve recently been flying FPV in the sky with a drone like NiGHTS. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NiGHTS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NiGHTS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NiGHTSIntoDreams?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NiGHTSIntoDreams<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ouut5FY9nt\">pic.twitter.com\/ouut5FY9nt<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Yuji Naka \/ \u4e2d\u3000\u88d5\u53f8 (@nakayuji) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nakayuji\/status\/1544235117073166337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Or rather, it&#8217;s not so much an <em>absence<\/em> of Ohshima, but a rather noticeable black lump where Ohshima used to be, as noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/yuji-naka-creator-of-balan-wonderworld-erases-naoto-ohshima-creator-of-sonic-and-nights-from-photo-commemorating-nights-birthday.604119\/\">a poster on ResetEra called MechaJackie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the photo itself:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1c87b73bead06\/nights-2.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nights 2\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/\ufeffhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/nakayuji\/status\/1544235117073166337\">Yuji Naka<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Uh&#8230; thoughts? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Naka has posted some tweets which appear to give a little more insight into the altered photo: How would you feel if you were suddenly removed from a game that you had worked hard on for over two years, and when you went to court, you found out that they had been talking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}