Kikuko Inoue

“So, we could put audio on there, and now games could talk. No one had made anything with CD-ROMs yet.”

“I was roaming in the dark and you were like the beacon of light leading the way with your smile and everything.”

“And I would ask them to do another take, but they would say, there wasn't anything wrong with that take and everyone would kinda agree, but Kikuko, you would stand up for me.”

“So this is why I started going to dinners with cast members. […] But this kind of work style of mine started from here.”

“With Policenauts, I made almost everything on my own. So it's really my blood, sweat and tears.”

“Yeah, well, Kayumi-san is like a god to me.”

“You decided to become freelance at the height of your popularity. That's so risky, yet so bold.”

“You may be playing the hero in the video game, but what if the girl you were in relationship with called you to ask stuff like, 'Do you like me?' or 'Don't you remember me?' We never had a character like that.”

“The boss is kind of mysterious. She's maternal, but she's also like the father figure.”

“In my first idea, Chiko was alive but has become a deranged killer. He was supposed to appear as someone violently killing people, kind of like Christopher Walken's character in The Deer Hunter.”

“But I wanted to see a Kikuko version of Lindsay. So I asked you to play the two roles of Amelie and Brigitte.”

“Your name will be Seventeen. […] There'll be an oi oi button. If the players press that, they get a like. But they have to press it at just the right timing.”