GI: I hate to totally break away from all the sports games, but theres another game Camelot is known for, and thats Golden Sun. Whats the status of Golden Sun, and is that series finished or is that something youd like to bring to consoles?





Hiroyuki Takahashi: First of all, I love that game and I love the world of Golden Sun. We think we have to make another one. We have to do it! Not just that we have to do it, but we want to do it. Nintendo has asked us to please make it. But at the same time we havent gotten around to making it. Were not really sure why. (laughs)





Shugo Takahashi: As Camelot, we think of ourselves as being a company that makes RPGs. In an RPG you role-play as another character. In the sports games, youre role playing as yourself. I want to let the fans know that in the center of our way of thinking the games that were making now are close to RPGs. The looks and the concepts might be totally different but the essence of the game contains the RPG. One of the reasons that we havent made golden sun is because there are so many fans of the game and we dont want to do something half-assed. We want to give it the time it deserves.





Hiroyuki Takahashi: There are also many requests to make Shining Force III. At one stage we got a petition with many signatures to make a new Shining Force game. This was sent to Sega, Nintendo and Camelot. There are a lot of people that want us to make that game as well. We dont know what form it would take, but we want to answer the requests of the fans.