Kenny Omega On His Involvement in AEW Fight Forever, Hopes For 2022 Release

Kenny Omega recently discussed his involvement in the AEW Fight Forever console game and said he’s hoping for a 2022 release. Omega spoke with Fightful for a new interview and touched on the game, which he’s been busy working on along with Yuke’s. You can check out some highlights below:

On his involvement with the game: “It’s great that people are excited, that makes me happy. It was really challenging because I wasn’t sure what I could do, what I would be able to do. From a creative design standpoint, how I communicate my ideas, are they going to be understood? Is it going to be too off the wall? Are my ideas too broad, too grandiose for the budget? These are things I never knew going into the project. It’s now to the point where we’ve talked about what we can do and what we have the time and budget for. Now, it’s almost time for me to find something else within this project to do because the creative process is almost complete where, we know how the matches will flow, we know some of the systems, we know the action and reaction type stuff.”

On where the game is at now: “It’s now in a process of being tuned and finely tuned from there. Still, a lot of stuff to implement, but our guys at Yuke’s are working at a blistering pace. It’s incredible the amount they are doing within a 24-hour period. It just seemed like, out of nowhere, a light switch went off and they went into hyper mode. They’re working real fast. Some of the stuff we were worried might be on the cutting room floor is now getting implemented.”

On a potential release date: “It was a challenge to attempt to make a brand new wrestling game, from the ground up, during the COVID era. It was very challenging. It got to a point where it seemed bleak and maybe we would never release this thing, but we kind of got past that, and with the go-getters at Yuke’s and the guys on our side and Geta [Hideyuki “Geta” Iwashita] and his old contacts that have hopped on board and helped push us to the finish line we, hopefully, can be on schedule to make sure we get this game out by this year. Hopefully. Fingers crossed,” Omega said.