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# Curious what Japanese devs played the most in 2011?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/curious-what-japanese-devs-played-the-most-in-2011/
- Published: 2012-01-09T18:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:27:59.000Z
- Description: Mostly Dark Souls, games from the West, and iPhone games, according to a survey of 80 key industry figures in Japan. Here’s a rundown of the noteworthy: Keiji Inafune, creator of Megaman and long time Capcom bigwig, was still enamored with Angry Birds. Fumito Ueda, the director who bore the lavish I
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Mostly *Dark Souls*, games from the West, and iPhone games, according to [a survey of 80 key industry figures in Japan](http://andriasang.com/comzk3/4gamer%5Fmegafeature/?ref=killscreen.com). Here’s a rundown of the noteworthy:

- Keiji Inafune, creator of *Megaman* and long time Capcom bigwig, was still enamored with *Angry Birds*.
- Fumito Ueda, the director who bore the lavish *Ico* and *Shadow of the Colossus*, and who recently parted ways with Sony while the highly-anticipated *Last Guardian* was still in the oven, chose *Portal 2*.
- Tomonobu Itagaki, famed as much for his black leather jackets as for his former work on *Ninja Gaiden*, picked *Modern Warfare* and *Battlefield*.
- Yousuke Hayashi, who took the helm of Team Ninja after Itagaki split, and who [dodged responsibility for *Metroid: Other M*’s lambasted story](http://kotaku.com/5843159/blame-nintendo-for-metroid-other-ms-sucky-story?ref=killscreen.com), went with *Plants Vs. Zombies* for iOS.
- Hideki Kamiya, director of the balls-to-the-wall *Bayonetta* and the sumi-e painted *Okami*, didn’t like anything in particular this year, but he did vow to “make a comeback on the game scene and be known as more than just some guy who posts on Twitter.”
- Akihiro Hino, big-bossman of Level-5, who grew the company into one of the most successful in Japan, mostly on the back of the *Professor Layton* series, said he enjoyed *Skyrim*.
- Last but not least, Yasumi Matsuno, the legendary tactician who engineered a comeback this year with the successful remake of *Tactics Ogre*, and who you might also know as the man responsible for *Final Fantasy Tactics*, *Vagrant Story*, and the good bits of *Final Fantasy XII*, had the most baffling pick: *Army of Darkness Defense* for iOS.

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*\-Jason Johnson*