Best known for his design work in CAPCOM‘s Street Fighter games, Akiman is a renowned character designer who was called upon to help create the world and cast of Star Ocean 6: The Divine Force. We were lucky enough to sit down with the famed artist to ask him a few questions about his time working on the game.
ANN: Okay, so first things first: what drew you to accepting the project of designing the world and characters of Star Ocean 6: The Divine Force?
Akiman: I was curious what was going to happen if I worked with Square Enix and [its] fusion between science fiction and fantasy [sic]. It’s not very common, but wanted to see what that was going to be like. Before working on these kinds of games, I was known for working on a lot of fighting games, but back then there…
