He also expresses a hope that he can put out another project in the future. Yuji Naka's most recent personal tweet highlighted that his company Prope, though largely inactive, recently celebrated its 15th Anniversary and is still supporting some of its title's online features. I feel bad for him, it seemed like he knew that if Balan wasn't successful, he'd be out at Square Enix. Looks like Yuji Naka no longer works at Square Enix. It seems, based on Naka-san's online profiles, that he then departed Square Enix at the end of April, the news of which has recently been doing the rounds on social media. Regardless of the various perspectives around Balan Wonderworld, it won't have been deemed a successful project. The high profile of the release was met by an extremely rough launch, though there are certainly vocal supporters of the game as well. Most recently, however, he's been at the forefront as director of Balan Wonderworld at Square Enix the poor critical reception to that game has prompted plenty of debate. His independent studio, Prope, also produced some notable and fun titles in past Nintendo generations, intriguingly including StreetPass games. Yuji Naka has an incredible legacy in gaming history, including his founding role and work on the original Sonic the Hedgehog games and a number of other SEGA classics such as Nights into Dreams and Phantasy Star Online. As for what I’ll do in the future, I’m already 55 years-old, so I may as well retire. “While I cannot share the reason right now, I hope to be able to discuss it when the time comes. I resigned from Square Enix at the end of April,” Naka said in a tweet. We've also included a translation shared by Gematsu, which broadly aligns with machine translations of the text. Following the widespread response to the news he left Square Enix, Yuki Naka posted a tweet with a short update, below.
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