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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Kenji Eno | 1970-2013
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ZackHoagie
Dec 25, 2007

now eat him.

http://kotaku.com/5985871/game-desi...-died-at-age-42

Kotaku posted:

Kenji Eno, musician and game designer, passed away yesterday in Tokyo at the age of 42. He died of heart failure, induced by high blood pressure, reports The Asahi Shimbun.

Eno was perhaps best known for the survival horror game D, released in 1995 for the Sega Saturn, and its sequel. He was also famous for his scores, and he composed music for his own games as well as games for other designers, like Sega Rally 2. More recently, Eno worked on iOS game Newtonica and WiiWare title Kimi to Boku to Rittai.

Besides creating games and writing music, Eno also founded the game studio known as WARP, which employed a young Fumito Ueda, who would go on to design Ico.

From creating unique video games to designing digital money payment systems for vending machines, Eno was involved in a variety of activities. He will be missed.

Kenji Eno's idiosyncratic tendencies were some of the most exciting in videogames. Despite D's plodding pace or Enemy Zero's frustrating enemies, the concepts, stories, and insane twists behind them were always worth talking about.

He was also certified crazy. Between shilling for Sega at a Sony press conference, hand delivering 2000 dollar copies of his game, or trapping acclaimed composer Micheal Nyman in his hotel room until he agreed to do the score for Enemy Zero.

If you've never experienced one of his games, I suggest you look at the LP of D and D2. He will be missed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_TRHgXtLGM

ZackHoagie fucked around with this message at Feb 21, 2013 around 17:10

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Captain combat bear
Aug 15, 2009


 This was a horrible way to start my day .

Kenji Eno was one of the best designers to me, it was clear to anyone that ever played his games that he made them because he wanted to and not because someone said it will make tons of money.

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Dan Didio
Apr 6, 2009

Should've sent a poet.

 Christ, 42. That's way too young to go out like that.

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Wendell
May 11, 2003



 I trust you meant "certified crazy" in the complimentary way Eno deserved!

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MechanicalTomPetty
Oct 30, 2011

Runnin' down a dream
That never would come to me

Dan Didio posted:

Christ, 42. That's way too young to go out like that.

He's been really high strung since D2 at least, probably alot longer than that if half the stuff I've heard about him is true. Heart failure is a nasty way to go but it wasn't a matter of how so much as when.

Either way this is loving terrible. I really liked D2, in spite of all it's (many) flaws.

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EA Sports
Feb 10, 2007


 He died during the playstation 4 debut, this is some destruction of alderaan poo poo for sega fans.

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