Ryoko Kui's Recommended Games
In issue 1837 of Weekly Famitsu magazine, Ryoko Kui, the mangaka behind Dungeon Meshi, gives an interview where she discusses her history with gaming. She also did an illustration depicting various elf characters from "foreign RPGs". This list includes all of the games mentioned in the feature.
Other media mentioned:
The Neverending Story (book)
Lord of the Rings series (books)
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (anime)
Dungeons & Dragons (tabletop RPG/series) [never played it, but read rulebooks and novels]
Additionally, while it wasn't mentioned in the article, Kui has done fan art of Cuphead before.
Other media mentioned:
The Neverending Story (book)
Lord of the Rings series (books)
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (anime)
Dungeons & Dragons (tabletop RPG/series) [never played it, but read rulebooks and novels]
Additionally, while it wasn't mentioned in the article, Kui has done fan art of Cuphead before.
72 Games
Series
Watched her father play.
Watched her father play.
Series
Watched her father play.
Watched her father play.
Series
Watched her father play.
Watched her father play.
Series
Watched her father play.
Watched her father play.
The biggest inspiration for Dungeon Meshi was the Cosmic Forge pen from Wizardry VI. With improved graphics from its predecessor, now it could show broken farming tools in the background and many more details that made exploration so much fun.
The game that got her back into gaming and the first one she studied during research for Dungeon Meshi.
Kui mentioned that she wanted to play Dungeon Master, as it was famous for being an "RPG with meals", but hunting down the game and machine to play it was too much.
Disco Elysium is the perfect game for her due to the lack of fighting, intriguing story, charming character interaction, and top-down perspective. She tried playing it in English at first due to an unlikely chance for JP loc, but it was out of her ability. Thus she is forever grateful to Spike Chunsoft for localizing it.
She praised Unpacking and House Flipper for being able to tell what kind of person lives there only through their belongings, and that there's no right or wrong for the placements; she would make the best arrangement and then enjoy her hard work while sipping tea.
She enjoyed Red Dead Redemption 2 and God of War for their stories. RDR2's incredible attention to detail had Kui engrossed so much that she asked her editor and other mangaka to play it so she could discuss it with them.
She played Zelda: BotW and TotK on a borrowed Switch from her editor due to the console's scarcity at the time.
Kui praised The Witcher 3 localization as something only possible with full support from the developer.
Cyberpunk 2077 is one of her all-time favorites.
Kui played Baldur's Gate 3 from the time it was in Early Access. Again, she's grateful for Spike Chunsoft's JP loc. She hoped BG3's success would bring the possibility of JP loc for other titles too, such as Pathfinder: WOTR
Waiting on the Japanese version.
Papers, Please was her first taste of indie games.
She was happy that Yasunori Mitsuda was chosen as the composer for the Dungeon Meshi anime, as she used to play Chrono Cross and rewatched the opening many times.
Looking forward to this.
Looking forward to this.
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