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“Massive Damage To Giant Enemy Crab Guy” interviewed about Genji 2 for PS3

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Producer Kyle Shubel (yes, he has a name) is not afraid to kid around about ancient Japanese battles with giant enemy crabs and massive damage when it comes to his PlayStation 3 launch title, Genji: Days Of The Blade. Game Informer interviewed him and found out he’s serious about making improvements he hopes players will appreciate. Improvements other than real-time weapons change that is, as this video shows those are already perfect ;)
Game Informer: Let’s just get this out of the way right from the start. The infamous historical crab battles, the massive damage, all over the internet, message boards, YouTube… In fact, that’s what Genji 2 is probably most known for at this point. How is the team taking all of this?

Kyle Shubel: First of all, you kind of have to take it with a grain of salt. We’re paid to be kids. We’re making video games for a living. C’mon, how bad can it be? That, coupled with “any press is good press.” Now let’s move onto the next step. The fun part is, the heike crabs, the giant crabs, are actually real creatures. There are over two meter crabs that exist in Japan. Go online to Google and type in heike crab and you’ll get hundreds of links to these things. They actually are a part of history in Japan where they talk about them being the imbued spirits of the dead Heike warriors in the Battle of Dan-no-ura during the Genpei War, which you’re playing the Battle of Dan-no-ura in Genji: Days Of The Blade.

GenjiDuring Days Of The Blade we’re going to do the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani, we’re going to do the Battle of Dan-no-ura. In the Battle of Dan-no-ura hundreds of soldiers died and basically so many ships came into one harbor you could hop from one ship to another without getting your feet wet. So many soldiers died that they say these crabs are imbued with the spirits of the dead Heike warriors, that’s why they actually have faces on them. For us, for Westerners, yeah, giant crabs are a little bit out there. For the Japanese, it’s an extreme version of reality. I would love for it to not be all over the internet. But honestly, I kind of like it. People are talking about the game.

[Editor’s note: We’ll save you the research. The Heikegani (or heike crab) does inhabit the seas of Japan and has a face-like pattern on its back. However, the maximum size of a heike crab is only about 1.2 inches. Not so scary, huh? But Japan is also home to the biggest crab on Earth, the Giant Japanese Spider Crab, whose leg span can reach up to 12 feet and total weight can tip the scales at 40 lbs]
Giant enemy crab (not a Genji 2 PS3 screenshot)

All jokes aside, if you’re interested in the game that is looking really good right now, check out the new pictures and read the rest of the interview over at Game Informer.

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7 Responses to ““Massive Damage To Giant Enemy Crab Guy” interviewed about Genji 2 for PS3”

  1. 1
    HIZLO Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 2:18 pm

    XBOX 360 all the way, screw PS3! Your right don’t waste your money, id rather waste that kind of money on more 360’s

  2. 2
    Lishy Says:
    January 30th, 2007 at 6:15 pm

    Ima get a ps3(it actually looks interesting once you put all the console wars aside) but before i touch a ps3, i must get a wii!
    NITNEEEEENDOOOOOOOO RUUUUUUULES

  3. 3
    PS3 Game Geek » Genji Creator Has Crabs, Suffers Massive Damage! Says:
    February 20th, 2007 at 3:52 pm

    […] If you’ve had the most undistinguished privilege of playing Genji: Days Of The Blade, or watched any of the hilarity that’s been passed around the intertubes concerning the words “based on actual history,” “giant crabs,” and “massive damage,” you might be familiar with the evil purple-glowy skull-faced enormous arthropod that you battle, flip to expose its weakness, and then obliterate with, well…massive amounts of…damage. […]

  4. 4
    Genji Creator Has Crabs, Suffers Massive Damage! » PS3 Game Players Says:
    February 20th, 2007 at 3:53 pm

    […] If you’ve had the most undistinguished privilege of playing Genji: Days Of The Blade, or watched any of the hilarity that’s been passed around the intertubes concerning the words “based on actual history,” “giant crabs,” and “massive damage,” you might be familiar with the evil purple-glowy skull-faced enormous arthropod that you battle, flip to expose its weakness, and then obliterate with, well…massive amounts of…damage. […]

  5. 5
    The Unreal Me » It’s all about the gameplay. Says:
    March 6th, 2007 at 4:05 pm

    […] After my experience thought, I must say I felt a little empty and spent a little while trying to work out why - I mean I’d just played a PLAYSTATION 3, the system with the ability to cause Massive Damage! While the graphics were nice and physics were good (albeit a little sluggish) the game just didn’t excite me. Motostorm didn’t come anywhere near to the amount of fun I have had playing Excite Truck recently; partly due to the controller (PS3 used a standard thumbstick, Excite Truck uses Wiimote like a steering wheel) but mostly due to the implementation – arcade v realism. Now I realise that everyone likes different sorts of games – me, I like arcade style games where things don’t have to obey the laws of physics – but nonetheless this demonstrated that the graphics will not necessarily make a good game and sway you towards it if the gameplay just ain’t there. Graphics can’t do enough to give you the emotional satisfaction that you want. […]

  6. 6
    tim rowan Says:
    May 18th, 2007 at 6:28 am

    that **** is f*cked up, i would be forced to just f*ck up that crab if he came near me.

  7. 7
    mick Says:
    January 26th, 2008 at 12:36 am

    Pirates of Caribbean III has the opposite of Giant Enemy Crab: Tiny Allied Crab. Check it out.

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