Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya has lastly revealed precisely why he left Platinum Video games earlier this yr.
Kamiya unblocks the key of his departure
It’s that story as outdated as time on the floor. His personal beliefs not matched up with what Platinum Video games was doing.
Talking on his YouTube present, Kamiya went into the why and the way of his sudden departure announcement again in September took place.
“As a result of I felt that the route the corporate was heading in was completely different from my beliefs as a developer, mentioned Kamiya, ”With out that ingredient of belief, I couldn’t proceed working there, and so I left, in order that I might proceed working in what I contemplate to be the appropriate means. I don’t consider video games as merchandise, however slightly as artworks. I wish to put my artistry into video games and ship video games that might solely be made by Hideki Kamiya, in order that gamers can get pleasure from Hideki Kamiya video games precisely as they’re.”
And that was it; Kamiya had made his choice.
“I made a decision to go away the corporate and forge my very own path, to proceed making video games that mirror the builders who made them.”
He additionally mentions that it was a mutual choice after a lot dialogue with Platinum president Atsushi Inaba.
On Kamiya’s YouTube channel, which he’s been messing about with fairly incessantly since he discovered himself between jobs after leaving Platinum Video games, he talks about all method of issues. Just lately, he addressed a query he says he’s requested very often: would he collaborate with one other huge title in Japanese gaming like Kojima, Taro, or Lifeless or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki?
His reply wasn’t precisely encouraging, however in step with his steadfast beliefs in recreation improvement.
”Look, it might be a catastrophe!” Stated Kamiya, “It doesn’t work like in Dragon Ball, the place Goku fuses with different characters. Two folks with fully completely different personalities and concepts would conflict. There’s no means you’d get a good recreation of that. Why is that arduous for folks to know? There’s a Japanese saying, possibly a proverb? ‘Too many captains will steer the ship up a mountain’… so there ought to solely be ONE CAPTAIN!”
Hopefully it gained’t be too lengthy till we see what Kamiya’s post-Platinum imaginative and prescient is.