13 Facts About Shu Takumi

Shu Takumi is a Japanese video game designer, director, and writer at Capcom.

Shu Takumi is best known for his work on the Ace Attorney series, serving as director and scenario writer for the original trilogy.

Shu Takumi then served as director and scenario writer for Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective in 2010.

Shu Takumi joined Capcom in 1994 along with Hideki Kamiya.

Shu Takumi was designated as a planner, and because the director was busy with multiple projects, Takumi had some freedom in his role.

Shu Takumi was later picked up by Shinji Mikami to work on Dino Crisis.

Shu Takumi was then made director of the Dino Crisis project before being demoted to planner, being responsible for the first half of the game.

Shu Takumi was then made director of Dino Crisis 2, and was able to maintain his position throughout the game's development.

Shu Takumi conceived of a detective-themed adventure game that would allow the player to input his or her deductions in some way.

Shu Takumi thought of two ways to achieve this, one being a "joint reasoning" system in which the player would correct the deductions of a detective, and a court system in which the player, as a lawyer, would point out contradictions between witness testimony and evidence.

Shu Takumi's team began work on Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, a realization of the latter concept.

The 2007 game Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney was the last entry in the main series made under Shu Takumi, who went on to create the standalone title Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective.

Shu Takumi worked on a spinoff series of the Ace Attorney games taking place in Victorian London and incorporating the "joint reasoning" system that he had conceived all those years before, including The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures and The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, which were released in 2015 and 2017 respectively.