Nobuyuki Inoue (井上信行, Inoue Nobuyuki) is an independent writer at his own company, Sayonaraoyasumi. He previously worked as a creative director for Square and Brownie Brown.[1] He entered the video game industry when he took a job with Square as a debugger on the Game Boy game Final Fantasy Legend II. He began working as a scenario designer on the Super Famicom game Live a Live. He was also involved in games in the Mana series, including Legend of Mana.

Nobuyuki Inoue
井上 信行
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He left Square to work with Brownie Brown, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nintendo. He continued making games in the Mana series, starting with a remake of Final Fantasy Adventure titled Sword of Mana for the Game Boy Advance. He went on to direct a new franchise called Magical Vacation for the Game Boy Advance, which was followed by Magical Starsign for the Nintendo DS. [2] He later directed Mother 3, the long-awaited sequel to EarthBound. His final work at Brownie Brown was as the lead planner on Fantasy Life for the Nintendo 3DS.

Inoue began Sayonaraoyasumi Co., Ltd. on April 2, 2012.[3] Under this company, he worked as a scenario writer on Triangle Strategy for the Nintendo Switch.

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Year Game title Role
1990 Final Fantasy Legend II Debugger
1992 Romancing SaGa Field map design
Hanjuku Hero: Aa, Sekaiyo Hanjukunare...! Battle director
1994 Live A Live Battle director, scenario
1995 Romancing SaGa 3 Map design
1997 Final Fantasy Tactics Planner
1999 Legend of Mana Event planner
2001 Magical Vacation Director, scenario
2006 Magical Starsign
Mother 3 Director
2011 Professor Layton's London Life
2014 Fantasy Life Lead planner
2022 Triangle Strategy Scenario (credited as Sayonaraoyasumi)

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  1. ^ Inoue, Nobuyuki. "井上信行". Amazon (in Japanese). Retrieved July 7, 2022.
  2. ^ "Interview Magical Starsign". Gamekyo (in French). September 2, 2007. Retrieved August 13, 2011.
  3. ^ Inoue, Nobuyuki. "History - さよならおやすみ 会社沿革". Sayonaraoyasumi (in Japanese). Retrieved July 7, 2022.