I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

As I am ageing, naturally, how I want my videogames to be played must be changing.

Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll.

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.