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"With great power comes the need for great sacrifice," says Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune, offering a riff off Spider-Man's mantra to apply it to his upcoming game, Soul Sacrifice.It looks like Inafune sacrificed quite a bit himself, leaving his cushy position as a producer at Capcom after a 23-year stint at the company. But with that sacrifice came power. In this case, it means he can make Soul Sacrifice, one of the oddest games on the Vita's horizon.
"In a typical game these days it's about earning points and defeating a certain number of enemies," says Inafune. "That kind of game was probably an old style game." After making countless iterations of Mega Man and other action properties like Onimusha, he seems fatigued from such simple win or lose scenarios, and sets his sights on creating more emotional experiences.
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