The developer of indie FPS Beyond Citadel has shared why they believe the Japanese games industry never really nailed the FPS formula.
Even going back to the roots of the genre, the FPS has predominantly been made in the west, with the likes of Id Software, Bungie, Rareware, and the roster of Call of Duty development teams and spinoffs like Respawn being the names who revolutionized the genre. I pride myself on knowing a bunch of obscure games, but when I think of Japanese-developed FPS games I can only conjure up Jumping Flash and Resident Evil Village, which are platformer and horror games respectively.
