Japanese · 1990s
Yasushi Suzuki is the Treasure artist behind the character and visual design of Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga, whose sharp, angular illustration style became closely associated with the studio's late-1990s and early-2000s shooters.
Treasure was founded in 1992 by former Konami staff and built a small but highly regarded catalogue on Sega and Nintendo hardware. Yasushi Suzuki was one of its key artists in the late 1990s and early 2000s, providing character and visual design for the Saturn shoot-'em-up Radiant Silvergun (1998), the Nintendo 64 action game Sin and Punishment (2000) and the shooter Ikaruga (2001). His angular, high-contrast illustrations gave those games a distinctive look, and his later freelance career kept him in demand as an illustrator and designer for games well beyond Treasure.