Hideki Kamiya, the colourful director of the Bayonetta video games in addition to Capcom cult classics like Okami and Viewtiful Joe, is ready to depart PlatinumGames, the studio he co-founded in 2007.
The information was introduced by Platinum on Twitter/X and subsequently confirmed by Kamiya. Platinum stated that Kamiya will depart the corporate on Oct. 12, after a 16-year run.
Nevertheless, I really feel this end result is for the perfect.
I’ll proceed to create in my Hideki Kamiya approach.
I hope you may maintain your eyes peeled.
(2/2)— 神谷英樹 Hideki Kamiya (@PG_kamiya) September 25, 2023
“This got here after a number of consideration primarily based alone beliefs,” Kamiya stated, “and was under no circumstances a simple determination to make. Nevertheless, I really feel this end result is for the perfect. I’ll proceed to create in my Hideki Kamiya approach. I hope you’ll maintain your eyes peeled.”
“We’re actually grateful for his inventive concepts, management, and contribution to the expansion of PlatinumGames from our start-up to this very day,” Platinum stated. “We consider that he’ll proceed to achieve his future endeavors as a sport creator. We’re wanting ahead to seeing the sport business develop into a greater place with him in it. We want him all the perfect for the long run!”
Kamiya is understood for making the sort of flamboyant motion video games with razor-sharp mechanics which might be synonymous with the PlatinumGames identify — in addition to for his pugnacious however tongue-in-cheek persona on Twitter, the place getting blocked by him is taken into account a badge of honor.
At Capcom, Kamiya labored on the unique Resident Evil and directed Resident Evil 2 earlier than serving as director and author on the primary Satan Could Cry. Together with producer Atsushi Inaba and Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami, Kamiya arrange the influential however short-lived Capcom inside studio Clover, the place he directed the attractive Zelda-like journey Okami.
When Capcom shuttered Clover, the trio left to discovered PlatinumGames, the place Kamiya created the Bayonetta sequence, a couple of gun-toting witch, and The Great 101, through which gamers management a horde of tiny superheroes. Kamiya was pissed off to spend years engaged on Scalebound, an bold open-world fantasy motion sport for Xbox, just for Microsoft to cancel the challenge.
What this rockstar creator is as much as subsequent is anybody’s guess, though some speculate on a reunion with Mikami, who left Platinum in 2010 to discovered Tango Gameworks, the place he made the Evil Inside video games for Bethesda. Mikami left Tango in February this yr, and his subsequent challenge stays a thriller.