Interview extra: Tomm Hulett

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2017

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Joining Leon for this interview extra is WayForward Technologies' Game Director, Tomm Hulett. Recounting his remarkable career, Tomm tells us of his early days testing Dave Perry games for Virgin, before moving on to localisation work on JRPGs including Persona 3 for Atlus. Then he reveals all about his bittersweet time producing Silent Hill titles for Konami - as well as the subsequent and vicious backlash from sections of that IP's fanbase. Bringing us up to date, Tomm shares what it's like to work on licensed games at WayForward, as well as the experience of working with other beloved Japanese IPs such as Contra and Rocket Knight Adventures. Leon Cox (@ratsoalbion) Tomm Hulett (@Hypnocrite) http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/tomm_hulett_interview.mp3 Music used in this podcast is as follows: 1: Downpour intro by Daniel Licht - Silent Hill: Downpour, 2012 2: Intro Perp walk by Daniel Licht - Silent Hill: Downpour, 2012 Edited by Jay Taylor (@JaySevenZero). Do you have an opinion about a game we're covering that you'd like read out on the podcast? Then venture over to our forum and check out the list of upcoming games we're covering. Whilst there you can join in the conversations with our friendly community in discussing all things relating to videogames, along with lots of other stuff too. Sound good?

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to a cane and rinse interview special.
0:14.0	It's one of those special podcasts that we like to slip into your feed as the opportunity arises.
0:19.0	And I recently put a shout out saying, you know, who among our community would like to be
0:26.5	interviewed.
0:27.0	And one of those who put themselves forward was somebody who I know has been engaging with us
0:31.3	for quite some time now.
0:32.6	And very pleased to finally get to talk to Mr. Tom Hewlett.
0:36.0	Welcome.
0:37.3	Hi, everybody. I'm super psyched to actually be on Canaan Rins.
0:40.6	Oh, well, yeah. So I guess does your, does your knowing about us? This is a very egocentric way to start this interview.
0:49.1	But does you all knowing about us go back to when we were covering the Silent Hill games that you worked on?
0:54.6	I think so.
0:55.5	I think I read a article on the 15 podcasts you should be following,
1:00.6	or the five podcasts or something.
1:02.1	Thank you, Vice.
1:02.6	And it happened, oh yeah, the Vice article.
1:04.9	It happened to coincide with your Silent Hill series.
1:09.1	So I was like, oh, my gosh, they're going to play these games.
1:11.1	I don't think you were on mine yet.
1:12.9	So I was very anticipatory.
1:15.8	Yeah.
1:16.0	But I love your approach to talking about games.
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