Yuji Naka Has Been Arrested For Insider Trading [U]

What a ways to fall. There have been rumors for a long time concerning his temper and ego and seeing them I thought that after the grand reunion with Naoto Ohshima, Hirokazu Yasuhara, and Takashi Iizuka, he mellowed out by then and had such a promising future with Ivy the Kiwi? and Rodea The Sky Soldier, even if the latter’s release was botched. Then he becomes the director for Balan Wonderworld with his old buddy only to spectacularly crash and then proceeded to not only burn bridges with Square Enix but Arzest and Naoto as well. I honestly didn’t think it’d get any worse until the news just dropped so suddenly and it’s a really sad sight to behold, to say the least. I can only imagine how his family and former colleagues are taking to this.

Posted By: Greatsong1

Despite Naka’s fall from grace over the years I did not expect these sad news.

Posted By: Moonlite75

Watching what Naka did through the years makes me realize things : He’s a princess and we don’t know him much but whatever projects he did was a problem in them. 1996 Sonic X-Treme was not released in time because he claimed the American theme for using his NiGHTS engine without his approbation instead of making the first 3D Sonic game ever be a chance to win against Nintendo and SONY’s competition, he stole Sonic Extreme’s 2005 concept for Sonic Riders’ creation because he can, he quit in 2006 to make his own games leaving Sonic 06 being a mess, until he was at Square Enix he was not very well welcomed and making Balan Wonderworld was a mess to execute because of that and now he’s a suspect of a insider trade.

I can’t believe Sonic fans still support this guy like a star. I mean he was a great game director nonetheless but above all that it’s tilting me.

On 11/18/2022 at 3:00 PM, TSS Classic Comment Bot said:

I can’t believe Sonic fans still support this guy like a star. I mean he was a great game director nonetheless but above all that it’s tilting me.

Honestly, I fell off the Naka train quite a few years ago. There’s enough… whispers out there to suggest he’s a massive pain to work with. When it came out that he got removed from the development of Balan, my reaction was “Yeah, that tracks.”

Posted By: PGags

So what exactly are his accolades? I’ve only been hearing bad news / projects coming from him in the last couple of decades.

Posted By: AManFromDeclan

I just hope that all of this doesn’t inspire the world (especially Iizuka) to go cancel culture on everything that made the two Adventure games so iconic and revered.

That is one thing we don’t need.

Then again, Mega Man 11 was allowed to become a thing, despite Inafune losing his popularity. It’s just with this franchise, so many questionably bad decisions have been made over much less. Heck, we even lost an entire comic book universe and its reboot.

And it’s not like there are any lengthy YouTube videos that talk about Yuji Naka’s “downfall”, so I’m completely in the dark as to why people think all of this is okay.

@ AManFromDeclan - It’s unlikely. It’s a financial crime with a vaguely defined “victim” in it.