Contents.Early life Matsuno grew up in a rural area, where he felt his only entertainment were movies, television, and books. His hobbies included making.

Namco was the first company to sign for the program, and began porting some of their most popular arcade titles under the 'Namcot' brand name, starting with Galaxian in September. The Famicom version of Xevious, one of the biggest arcade games in Japan at the time, became the console's first 'killer app' with over 1.5 million copies sold. Xevious — StrategyWiki, the video game walkthrough. Sold my Xevious Cabinet Rotheblog - Arcade Game Blog Full Set Side Art Arcade Cabinet Asteroids Artwork Kit.

He was particularly fond of dioramas, that he used to make by researching at the local library. He would incorporate story elements into each of his creation.His introduction to video games was playing and at the arcades while waiting for the train. He was fond of and on, and played heavily on the and, including.He attended for foreign policy but dropped out after three years. Shortly thereafter he found work as an economic reporter but found the work unfulfilling. In 1989 Matsuno left his job as a reporter to work at.Career Quest Matsuno began his career at the Japanese video game developer. In 1993, he served as the director of for the.

It is the first installment of an episodic series of. On naming the game, Matsuno was inspired by band 's, which contained two songs titled ' and '. Even the 'Rhyan Sea' in the Ogre Battle world is named after '. The next game he worked on was, released in 1995 for the Super Famicom in Japan. The dark political narrative of the game revolving around the reality of war was inspired by Matsuno's outside perspective on events that unfolded during the in the early 1990s, including the.Although Let Us Cling Together is the second entry released in the Ogre Battle franchise, it featured dramatically different gameplay than its predecessor. While Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen was more akin to a grand strategy role-playing game (RPG), Let Us Cling Together was a more intimate, squad-based, isometric tactical RPG. Let Us Cling Together then launched a sub-series within the franchise with Tactics Ogre being used to distinguish the two forms of gameplay in later sequels (notably ).

Let Us Cling Together has since been well received and in March 2006, readers of the Japanese magazine voted it number seven among their 100 all-time favorite games. Square and Square Enix In 1995, Matsuno joined after quitting Quest. At Square, Matsuno directed and wrote for the. Similar in design and gameplay to Tactics Ogre, it was lauded for its highly intricate story. After the game's release, Matsuno and his team began development on.

Smaller in scope than Final Fantasy Tactics, it was still highly regarded by critics and has gained somewhat of a cult following since its release. Matsuno supervised Square's project prior to its first beta release in 2001. He then served as producer for for the system, which shares the Final Fantasy Tactics system but has an entirely different storyline.In 2001, Matsuno was assigned to work on as director together with. He came up with the game's original concept and plot. Matsuno reportedly was temperamental and refused to come to work for a month after part of the Final Fantasy XII team had left Square Enix to join 's new company. In August 2005, it was officially announced that he had stepped down from his position on the project due to a prolonged illness.

Freelance period and Level-5 In 2006, Matsuno expressed his interest for Nintendo's console in a promotional video, stating that he was impressed with the intuitive functionality provided by the. He was approached by his friend, the producer, to work on the scenario for the Wii game. While developing the setting, story and script, Matsuno often consulted with the development team and received conflicting orders from the staff members: the game designers wanted to emphasize extreme violence but the producers wished to tone it down instead. Matsuno's ideas and writing for the game were influenced by the necessity to balance these two different points of view. In October 2007, composer and longtime collaborator mentioned that he was working with Matsuno on 'some stuff'. When the original developers of were assembled to work on a reimagined port for the, Matsuno was called upon to handle the game design and new story elements.Soon after the port was finished, president entered talks with him to convince him of joining the company. In June 2011, it was announced that Matsuno had entered Level-5 based on his impression of the and series and in order to create the games he wanted to.

During his stay there, he developed the fantasy RPG Crimson Shroud for the, which is part of the collaborative project of 's, 's and comedian Yoshiyuki Hirai. Matsuno left Level-5 in October 2012 and explained 'With my work done on the domestic and overseas version of my latest 3DSWare game, it was good timing for me to step down and take a short break in order to recharge for my next project.' In September 2013, he announced a partnership with the American company to develop, a strategy game similar to Matsuno's previous titles and set in a medieval fantasy world. Algebra Factory Matsuno founded a 'planning, screenplay, and production' oriented company named Algebra Factory in 2016. During the Algebra Factory era, he was hired by Square Enix to produce the Return to Ivalice raid for the 's expansion and once more for the Save the Queen: Blades of Gunnhildr storyline for the Shadowbringers expansion, and by Cygames Corporation for game drafts and management for the mobile game.Game design Matsuno stated that he is heavily influenced by Western games. He is also influenced by films, particularly the original trilogy of.

He has described the development culture at Quest as a 'kind dictatorship' while Square's is more 'democratic', and is not personally fond of other team members having input on his narrative work. Works YearGameRole1990Planner1993Director, planner1995Director, game designer, scenario writer1997Director, writer2000Director, producer, battle designer, writer2003Producer2006Writer, original concept, original director, supervisor2009Writer2010Game designer, scenario writer20122014The Death of Shay and Arionne scenario writer2017DirectorReturn to Ivalice scenario writer2020Save the Queen: Blades of Gunnhildr scenario writerGame designer, writerReferences. From the original on 2013-06-14. Retrieved 2013-06-12.

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