{"id":72906,"date":"2019-01-02T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/happy_birthday_to_suda51_who_turns_51_today"},"modified":"2019-01-02T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:30:00","slug":"happy-birthday-to-suda51-who-turns-51-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/02\/happy-birthday-to-suda51-who-turns-51-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday To Suda51 Who Turns 51 Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/571d4ff840c3e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/571d4ff840c3e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Suda51\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/571d4ff840c3e\/suda51.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/571d4ff840c3e\/suda51.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Suda51\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Today, video game designer and director Goichi Suda &#8211; best known under the name &#8216;Suda51&#8217; &#8211; is celebrating his 51st birthday. <em>We couldn&#8217;t just let that slip by without a quick mention, right?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Suda51 first found his way into the video game development world as a designer at Human Entertainment, a Japanese studio which eventually declared bankruptcy at the turn of the millennium. His best-known work, however, has come from his own company Grasshopper Manufacture, which he founded after leaving Human in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Grasshopper has developed numerous games across PlayStation 2, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Wii, and more, with titles like <strong>The Silver Case<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/killer7\">Killer7<\/a><\/strong>, and the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/no_more_heroes\">No More Heroes<\/a><\/strong> series being particularly notable. His work is known for going against the norms of development, often using particularly striking visuals or gameplay styles that make his games instantly recognisable.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As of today, I am now literally SUDA&#8221;51&#8243;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VZJ5Maq8Ow\">pic.twitter.com\/VZJ5Maq8Ow<\/a><\/span>\u2014 SUDA51\/\u9808\u7530\u525b\u4e00 (@suda_51) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/suda_51\/status\/1080300236076019712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>His next project is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/travis_strikes_again_no_more_heroes\"><strong>Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes<\/strong><\/a>, which is arriving on Nintendo Switch in just over two weeks&#8217; time. He&#8217;s also been teasing possibilities for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/suda51_would_love_to_bring_killer7_to_switch_but_its_all_up_to_capcom\">Killer7 coming to Nintendo&#8217;s latest console<\/a>, as well as a potentially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/an_epic_no_more_heroes_3_could_be_on_the_cards_if_travis_strikes_again_sells_well_says_suda51\">&#8220;epic&#8221; No More Heroes 3<\/a>, but his current focus will naturally be on the launch of Travis Strikes Again.<\/p>\n<p><em>Happy birthday, Suda51! We hope you have a wonderful year!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, video game designer and director Goichi Suda &#8211; best known under the name &#8216;Suda51&#8217; &#8211; is celebrating his 51st birthday. We couldn&#8217;t just let that slip by without a quick mention, right? Suda51 first found his way into the video game development world as a designer at Human Entertainment, a Japanese studio which eventually [&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-72906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72906","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=72906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}