When you think of Goichi “Suda51” Suda’s Grasshopper Manufacture, the out-there developer behind hip titles like No More Heroes, you probably wouldn’t expect them to announce a video game based off the Evangelion anime series. Not without a very good reason, anyway.
“Eva and Rebirth of Eva games up to now have largely put you in the role of someone in the series, letting you be Shinji or pilot Unit 01,” said Rebirth of Evangelion Sound Impact producer Kei Hirono in an interview published in this week’s Famitsu magazine. “I thought a different approach might be possible. We started talking about taking the visuals and music that make up Rebirth and putting them into a game somehow, and it eventually melded into a rhythm action game.”
“I think the sound element of Eva is really impressive,” Suda added. “The soundtrack has such a major impact. That’s why we suggested a rhythm game.”
