Vanillaware Artist’s Mountain Retreat Yields Handmade Old-School RPG Love Letter
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Vanillaware artist Yoshio Nishimura spent six years living in the mountains near Nara to create Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle, a love letter to classic gamebooks like Grailquest and Deathtrap Dungeon presented as a handcrafted, pen-and-paper–style RPG with painterly art and a stance against AI generation.
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