Szymanski had been intrigued by Japanese game development ever since he'd beaten NES games years prior: "The credits would roll with fake names, but sometimes instead, you'd see these names jumbled with symbols. In 1994, a buddy's traveling father brought home a Super Famicom and a bunch of Japanese games, Final Fantasy VI among them. "It was Eff Eff Six," Szymanski answers without missing a beat, no clarification needed. Instead, his is an instinctual reaction to a simple question: Did any video game in particular send him on his career path? But he doesn't mention Final Fantasy VI because of any sense of fate or serendipity. The producer of Capcom's upcoming Lost Planet 3, Andrew Szymanski, is gushing about the video game that changed his childhood, so much so that when he recalls its iconic opening scene, he probably doesn't realize he could be describing his own game - also full of robo-suits and snow and giant, weird worlds to explore. A hero, strapped into a giant walking robo-suit, walks through a blizzard with low visibility and no idea what's coming next.
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