Rika Suzuki

is a Japanese writer and composer. She was a co-founder of the defunct Japanese companies Riverhillsoft and Cing. Suzuki began her career in 1984 as an assistant on Newtron. She is considered a pioneer of the adventure video game genre in Japan, and has mainly contributed as a scenario writer for the games the companies had produced. Suzuki is best known for her work on Another Code series and Kyle Hyde series.

Career An early pioneer in the adventure video game genre in Japan, Suzuki had begun her career at the Sanrio design department and eventually co-founded a company of her own known as Riverhillsoft, with president Kazuhiro Okazaki in 1983. After producing several early adventure titles, such as Kuronekosou Souzoku Satsujin Jiken, she rose to prominence following the release of the J.B. Harold video game series in the mid-80s and 90s. Suzuki aided in the founding of the Japanese video game developer Cing, with Takuya Miyagawa in 1999. She had written and designed the Another Code and Hotel Dusk franchises for Nintendo. Following the bankruptcy of Cing in 2010, she continued writing online novels at Bellwood Inc.,

Works

Door Door mkII (1984) – Editing – Game design, scenario Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (2007) – Game design, scenario Another Code: R – A Journey into Lost Memories (2009) – Game design, scenario Again (2009) – Scenario supervisor Last Window: The Secret of Cape West (2010) – Game design, scenario Another Code: Recollection (2024) – Supervisor Dark Auction (2026) – Scenario