Shu Takumi

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Shu Takumi.

Shu Takumi (巧 舟 Takumi Shuu) is a Japanese video game developer working at Capcom who created the Ace Attorney series and directed many of its games. He also provided the original voice for Phoenix Wright in the Japanese versions of the original trilogy games, and composed the song "The Guitar's Serenade". He is also known for creating Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective.

Career

Shu Takumi joined Capcom in 1994 along with Hideki Kamiya (who would later voice Godot). The first game on which he worked was Gakkou no Kowai Uwasa: Hanako-san ga Kita!! (学校のコワイうわさ 花子さんがきた!!; lit. "Here Comes Hanako: Scary Stories of Your School!!), a 1995 video game adaptation of an anime of the same name. He was designated as a planner, and because the director was busy with multiple projects, Takumi had some freedom in his role. In the years that followed, Takumi came up with an idea for a detective game, though nothing came out of it at first.

Takumi was later picked up by Shinji Mikami to work on Dino Crisis. However, in early 1997, the Dino Crisis team was temporarily redirected to help work on the ill-fated original version of Resident Evil 2. Takumi was then made director of the Dino Crisis project before being demoted to planner, being responsible for the first half of the game. He was then made director of Dino Crisis 2, and was able to maintain his position.

In 2001, Takumi decided to instead work on creating games in the visual novel genre, and thus the Ace Attorney series was created, with the first four games in the series (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations, and Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney) being written and directed by him. After Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, he considered the series finished. Takumi instead went on to create a new game called Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, which was well-received critically.

Although Takumi considered the Ace Attorney series finished, director Takeshi Yamazaki and producer Motohide Eshiro worked together to continue it with two interquel titles set between the third and fourth games: Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and Gyakuten Kenji 2.

Despite initially seemingly finished with the Ace Attorney series himself, Takumi would come back to write scenario designs for the crossover game Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, although that would mean that he was too busy to be involved in the development of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies.

Games

Shu Takumi is credited in the following games:

• Gakkou no Kowai Uwasa: Hanako-san ga Kita!! (1995)
• Resident Evil 2 (1998)
• Dino Crisis (1999)
• Dino Crisis 2 (2000)
• Gyakuten Saiban (2001)
• Gyakuten Saiban 2 (2002)
• Gyakuten Saiban 3 (2004)
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (2005)
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All (2006)
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations (2007)
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (2007)
• Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (2010)
• Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (2012)
• Dai Gyakuten Saiban: Naruhodō Ryūnosuke no Bōken (2015)

External links

• Wikipedia page
• Capcom Database page
• GayGamer.net interview
• Iwata Asks interview with Akihiro Hino & Shu Takumi on Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney