In a way, I sort of owe Toshihiro Nagoshi — whose departure from RGG Studio and Sega has been confirmed overnight — my career as a game journalist. Back in the early 2000s, when I first discovered Edge, he had a monthly column that I think was supposed to be about games, but was really about whisky, and life in Japan and, well, whatever he felt like talking about in any given month. He was a perfect fit for Edge, I thought. Intelligent but aloof, hard-working yet hard-partying, a bit nerdy but clearly cool as fuck. I fell in love with Edge immediately, and before long I fell for Nagoshi, too. I first heard of Nagoshi’s
Nagoshi and RedEye were the reasons for my first subscription to edge. Great piece.