Hideki Kamiya has left PlatinumGames
Hideki Kamiya has left PlatinumGames
Hideki Kamiya, the director of Bayonetta and Wonderful 101, announced his resignation from PlatinumGames for the upcoming month. company's vice pre
He's probably been frustrated with the company since Scalebound, this was only a matter of time. Everyone knows Kamiya isn't exactly shy about sharing his opinions so I bet he's been butting heads with people nonstop. Hope he pulls a Kojima and gets some funding to do his own thing.
Oh wow Scalebound, I was so excited for that game. Wish he was able to finish that as he seemed to be very passionate towards it. I heard MS was extremely pissed with the development process as well.
I feel like the key word here is resignation. Platinum has changed from its early days and so has the quality of its output (Babylon's Fall; Astral Chain, which I loved everything about but the gameplay). It is possible that because of the capital injection/investment by Tencent, Kamiya doesn't have the same creative freedom/pull to make the games he wants anymore.
Unless he speaks up we will never know, and I doubt he will. Can't wait to see what's next for him tho.
Off-topic, but with Astral Chain my biggest gripe was that the missions were soooo long with no way to save in the middle of one so I could pick it up later q-q
Where did he go?
Where have you gone, Viewtiful Joe?
Blocked
I get the feeling that whatever he's been working on since the last thing that got canceled, got canceled.
That or tenacent offered him a dump truck of money to do something, that's not unheard of
RIP Project G.G.
Man's probably been on a downward spiral ever since he lost the ability to block people on Twitter.
Loved his games in the past, but I don't think he's made anything good in a while, and I'm curious to know if there's any other studio willing to take in such a diva of a game developer. Wish him the best of luck.
He's a diva to the public, but I'm curious how he is to work with professionally. I think the guy's actually very rogueishly charming in his online persona. He just hasn't plain directed anything in a while, mostly just supervising direction, but he's still been involved in good stuff with regards to Bayonetta 3 or Astral Chain.
Still, though, it's been a while, but I think he has a very solid foundation of ideology for his direction in games, I'd trust him to direct something else, but maybe he's not interested in that anymore.