Draft:Enhance Experience
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Native name | エンハンス |
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Romanized name | Enhance |
| Company type | Incorporated |
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | October 1, 2014 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Tetsuya Mizuguchi (CEO) |
Number of employees | 30[1] |
| Website | enhance-experience |
Enhance (also known as Enhance Games) is a multimedia and video game development studio and publisher based in Ebisu, Tokyo, founded in 2014 by video game industry veteran and former SEGA producer, United Game Artists, and Q Entertainment chief creative officer and co-founder, Tetsuya Mizuguchi. Prior to forming Enhance Games, Mizuguchi was best-known for producing the games Sega Rally Championship, Space Channel 5, Rez, Lumines, and Child of Eden.
To date, Enhance has developed (usually in cooperation with Monstars, a Yokohama-based studio founded by ex-SEGA and Q Entertainment veterans) and/or has published the games Rez Infinite Tetris Effect, Lumines Remastered, and Humanity. While Rez Infinite was initially exclusive to PlayStation 4/PlayStation VR, Enhance eventually ported the game to Meta Quest. The rest of Enhance's releases have been multi-platform in nature, arriving on PlayStation consoles, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, Steam, and Epic Games Store.
Gameography: Rez Infinite (2016) First revealed at PlayStation Experience in 2016, Rez Infinite is an expanded version of the original Rez, which was originally released for Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, and later Xbox 360 as Rez HD. Unlike the previous version, Infinite featured a new stage ––Area X–– created specifically for the PlayStation VR/PlayStation 4 version of the game. While the main game (Areas 1-5) used an engine originally developed for Dreamcast and PS2, Area X specifically utilizes Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. The game was critically acclaimed, winning the Best VR/AR Game 2016 at The Game Awards, was a finalist in the Best VR/AR Game Category at GDC Choice Awards, nominated in the Audio Achievement Category at BAFTA Game Awards, invited to be shown (with the Synesthesia Suit) at the Sundance Film Festival, and exhibited at SXSW 2017. Rez Infinite has been released on the platforms: PS4, PSVR, Steam, Oculus Rift, Meta Quest, PS5, and PSVR2.
Lumines Remastered (2018) A remastered version of the original Lumines (pron. loo-mih-ness) ––which was originally released for PlayStation Portable in 2004–– Lumines Remastered is a recreation of the block-dropping puzzle game originally produced by Mizuguchi at Q Entertainment. The remastered game features remade visuals, and introduces new features not found in the PSP game, as well as music composed by game industry veterans Takayuki Nakamura and original Lumines art director Katsumi Yokota. The game also features licensed songs ––of note, the lead-off track ‘Shinin’’–– composed by Japanese musician, Mondo Grosso (aka Shinichi Osawa) and featuring KJ, the vocalist of Japanese rap-rock band Dragon Ash. The Remastered version of the game also brings back a concept Mizuguchi had for the original Rez (originally published by SEGA), which was the Trance Vibrator, a peripheral designed for the game to provide haptic feedback to the player, to simulate the sensation of being in a nightclub and being able to feel the bass.
The haptic feedback in Remastered is introduced as Trance Vibration, in keeping with Mizuguchi’s long-running fascination with bringing synesthesia-like elements to his games, and while no specific peripheral was manufactured for this game as the Trance Vibrator was for Rez by SEGA, the game enabled the use of eight Joy-Cons on Switch, eight Xbox wireless controllers, four DualShock controllers on PlayStation 4, and numerous Bluetooth controllers for Windows.
Long out of print due to the complexity of music licensing issues (the original game was released physically before digital distribution was commonplace, and thus no amendments for digital distribution were added in the licensing of the soundtrack), Lumines Remastered was developed by Resonair (now absorbed into Enhance as a single entity), another Mizuguchi-founded development team, which consists of many longtime collaborators and veterans who worked on the original Lumines. In addition to being released digitally on PS4, Steam, Xbox One, and Switch, Lumines Remastered also saw a physical release for PlayStation 4 and Switch produced by Limited Run Games in the United States.
Tetris Effect (2018) and Tetris Effect: Connected (2020) Announced at E3 in 2018, Tetris Effect brought Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s fascination with Tetris, and his longtime friendship with The Tetris Company founder’s Henk Rogers, full circle. His work as producer on the game Lumines was originally conceived as as his musical answer to Tetris for PlayStation Portable, with the PSP described by Mizuguchi as an “interactive Walkman.”
A modernized spin on the classic Tetris formula, Tetris Effect (named after the psychological ‘Tetris effect’ phenomenon of dreaming of Tetris-inspired block dropping routines after long play sessions of the game) bears the hallmarks of Mizuguchi’s recent projects: Wireframe-style visuals and copious amounts of particle effects found in his past games, such as Child Of Eden and Rez Infinite. Similar to those games, Tetris Effect also offers an electronic soundtrack, this one composed by composer, Hydelic.
Published in 2018, the game was first released for PS4 and PlayStation VR, with versions released for Windows, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive following in 2019. In 2020 a multiplayer expansion update was released and the game was rebranded as Tetris Effect: Connected, adding Xbox One, Series S/X, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch support. It later saw release on PlayStation 5 and Amazon Luna in 2022.
Humanity (2023) Announced at a Sony State of Play event revealing new products for their PlayStation game platform, Enhance revealed their new game, Humanity, a vaguely Lemmings-like game where a Shiba Inu is tasked with guiding a huge crowd of humans towards a goal. Unlike most Enhance games, this one was not co-developed by either Monstars or Resonair, but instead developed by ‘tha LTD,’ a Japanese creative agency specializing in web designs, app development, and art installations. The game’s creative director is Yugo Nakamura, an interactive designer and engineer at ‘tha LTD.’ tha LTD presented the demo of the game at a Unity Festival where Tetsuya Mizuguchi was one of the panel judges, later leading to the collaboration between tha LTD and Enhance. The game was released in 2023 on PS4, PSVR, Steam, PS5, PSVR2, and Meta Quest and Xbox in 2024.
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[edit]- ^ "Company Profile". enhance-experience.com/.