Mizuguchi y Second Life

De 1UP:

The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu has confirmed that Tetsuya Mizuguchi, creator of Rez and Lumines, and Japanese advertising firm Dentsu will be working on a collaboration project, creating a Virtual Tokyo for the open-ended simulation PC game Second Life.

Ken Aihara of Dentsu approached Mizuguchi with the project, but he initially refused. "[The game] is just too vast and involved too many loose ideas. But the more I thought about it, a lot of interesting ideas came up. My work all these years has been to entertain people through video games, but this Virtual Tokyo concept could be the next step and path."

We probably shouldn't be expecting a real life replica of the city itself, as Mizuguchi puts it, "The Tokyo we are trying to create is based on the image of city. How do people in Tokyo perceive the city? How about foreigners? That's what we want to express."

Mizuguchi finally concludes, "I hope to make Virtual Tokyo like a museum of Japanese pop culture. My friends abroad have told me often that there's so much materials and it's never preserved. This might be the perfect place for it."

Second Life me parece tremendamente aburrido, pero no dudaré en pasearme por esta versión virtual de Tokyo creada por Mizu.