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Famous video game designer, director and writer, Hideki Kamiya, known for works such as directing popular Capcom games like the original Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe, and most recently Bayonetta, has announced his departure from Platinum Games, effective on October 12th, 2023.

Platinum Games was founded way back in 2006 by major Capcom employees Atsushi Inaba, Shinji Mikami and Hideki Kamiya, under a different brand name then known as "Seeds, Inc.". Kamiya has remained ever since in the company since and it was known on September 25th, 2023 through Platinum Game's official Twitter account that Hideki Kamiya will now be leaving the company to yet undisclosed reasons. Shinji Mikami, who was one of the founders of Platinum Games but has since left and founded Tango Gameworks in 2010, also announced his departure from said company (Tango Gameworks) earlier this year.

Given their history together, it's still unknown if Kamiya and Mikami could be working on another studio together, but it remains to be seen.

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[Ryab]

He wasn't rude, but direct (like the Dutch are) Americans are sensitive to directness (me not included) so something "direct" could be seen as "rude"

A bit overly direct. Back when I was on Twitter he had me blocked before I had ever even interacted with him.

 

[Marc_LFD]

She has no place at Bayonetta games. Don't we already enough ugly female protagonists at modern video games?

Her?

She looks she'd be great for a trucking game. Hell, I'd not mind a new 18 Wheeler sequel.

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What was even the purpose of her existence at this game? A representation for the bitches who whine about Bayonetta being too sexualized for them?

Just yesterday I watched this clip of these Dutch fellas, didn't understand a word, but it was kinda obvious what was going on.



Dutch sounds like distorted English in a way, and hot dang she's gorgeous!

 

[codezer0]

I think after a certain point, twitter would just respond to his block requests like "dude, maybe it is a YOU problem."

 

[AkiraKurusu]

I haven't really been a huge Platinum Games fan - I tried Wonderful 101 and Astral Chain, but never did get all that far into them, as I got bored and moved onto other games. I have watched the entirety of Metal Gear Rising, but don't have the desire to actually play it.

Anything else...Nier Automata's a Platinum game? Huh. Also didn't get far into that; too bleak for my liking. MadWorld was long before I was aware of Platinum's existence, and is a Wii game, so no. Bayonetta - I don't really like playing as a female character, so not my thing. Star Fox Zero was a Platinum game too? Oof, ouch. Babylon's Fall is one they likely wish everyone would forget about, and everyone pretty much has.

So yeah, I don't like Platinum's library - though it is sad that Kamiya, who was practically the face of Platinum as far as I know, is leaving now. Hopefully his next endeavours turn out well.

 

[ertaboy356b]

With Yamane as VP, Platinum can go all-in to Nintendo. Maybe they can make a pure action game Zelda. With enough budget and help from EPD and MonolithSoft, the game can surpass the abomination called FFXVI.

 

[anhminh]

With this news I won't be at all surprised if we hear of a Platinum buy-out in the not-too-distant future (I'm sure MS were after them a while back)... hopefully Kamiya will carry on the ethos of Platinum in whatever his new endeavours are.

If I have a penny for everytime MS poach a Nintendo third party developer I would have two.

 

[HarveyHouston]

I don't appreciate these games, and based on this:

This is his Twitter banner. View attachment 395807

...It really doesn't surprise me. These are games made by immature people who just want to develop sex and violence games.

Also, WE ARE NOT INSECTS!!!

 

[duwen]

Nintendo third party developer...

I guess... if you consider a company that's made more stuff that's NOT been on Nintendo platforms than stuff that was exclusive to Nintendo platforms a "Nintendo third party developer"...

 

[Vetusomaru]

He wasn't rude, but direct (like the Dutch are) Americans are sensitive to directness (me not included) so something "direct" could be seen as "rude"

Also American game producers are way worse than Kamiya. At least he can make great games, unlike Americans.

 

[depaul]

Hideki Kamiya personally responded to one of our burner accounts when reached out for comment on the news.

“Go ask your mom,” said Kamiya.

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...games-that-we-cant-read-because-were-blocked/

 

[Vetusomaru]

Also, WE ARE NOT INSECTS!!!

Yes, you are.

 

[NeroAngelo]

I feel like I've been under a rock but what do you mean a rude person online?

the bayonetta 3 drama i guess

 

[skawo]

Gotta love the mental acrobatics of some people here. This guy is a beligerent twat, plain and simple.

 

[ZER-O]

i am guessing this has somethng to do with how long his games are Left in development Hell
he has already left Capcom and Clover to from his STUDIO Platinum Games, and since the studio transformed into a big coorperation they no longer produced the Quality games they were known for
plus he didnt direct Bayonetta 2,3
RIP Project G.G.
there is no Loss here, the studio last work was the battle system in Final Fanatsy 16

was he active in Directing a new game after Bayonetta 1?
Notable Works:
1998 Resident Evil 2 Director
2001 Devil May Cry Director, story
2003 Viewtiful Joe Director
2006 Ōkami - Director, story
2009 Bayonetta - Director, story
2017 ScaleBound - Director, story [Cancelled]
TBA Project G.G.Director

i am sure if he had control over his company then Star Fox Zero, Babylon's Fall, Transformers: Devastation would never have existsed

they should Delete the word Platinum after Ceresa and the other medicore games they are producing now

 

[Deleted member 672055]

What was even the purpose of her existence at this game? A representation for the bitches who whine about Bayonetta being too sexualized for them?

why be so fucking butthurt man? personally nothing wrong with her design, she's a nice contrast to the feminine Bayonetta, but you prefer to gawk like a fucking baby

 

[RetroNerdGamer]

Gotta love the mental acrobatics of some people here. This guy is a beligerent twat, plain and simple.

I... kinda have to agree with this...
I don't think he's being direct, he's kinda being a douche if he's blockin' people for absolutely no reason lmao

Edit: I found this in the comment section of the article depaul posted and uh...

Context:

Hideki Kamiya has had a list of "Rules" on his twitter Bio page for a long time. Rule breakers get blocked. Two of those rules include not interacting with him in a language that isn't Japanese and not telling him how to make games. When word got out on twitter that Bayonetta's english voice actress got recast because she wouldn't accept relatively low wages people started mentioning Kamiya in other languages and telling him to give the old VA a raise and another chance. Technically they were breaking his language and critique rules so he started blocking people like crazy until twitter froze his account thinking he got hacked. Obviously, no one checks the Bio before mentioning someone so Kamiya's gotten a reputation as an unhinged game dev who can't take criticism.

I gotta be honest, I can kinda understand the rule of having people not tell you how to make games when you're a game dev, because that gets toxic real quick but what the f* is that rule about not interacting in any language other than Japanese? For at least English does he not have a basic grasp of it because he seems to have posted from what I've seen in English quite a bit. I mean c'mon, you gotta know you have fans all over the world and imo that still puts him as an unhinged game dev lol

 

[duwen]

...but what the f* is that rule about not interacting in any language other than Japanese? For at least English does he not have a basic grasp of it because he seems to have posted from what I've seen in English quite a bit. I mean c'mon, you gotta know you have fans all over the world and imo that still puts him as an unhinged game dev lol

What you're saying comes across as ridiculously entitled. Any sort of public figure on any social platforms shouldn't (and wouldn't) google-translate every single comment/retweet that's in a language they don't understand - I mean, ffs, how many responses does the dude get to anything he posts? If you got that many responses to anything you posted in a language that you're not fluent in, would you spend your days translating it all?
Granted, blocking everyone is a tad extreme, but the guy's free to operate his socials however he sees fit - the same as anyone else is.

The internet's become a massively contradictory space over the past few years; you can get cancelled for not using someones preferred pronouns, but if you ask that people communicate in your native tongue you're a beligerent twat?!

 

[RetroNerdGamer]

What you're saying comes across as ridiculously entitled. Any sort of public figure on any social platforms shouldn't (and wouldn't) google-translate every single comment/retweet that's in a language they don't understand - I mean, ffs, how many responses does the dude get to anything he posts? If you got that many responses to anything you posted in a language that you're not fluent in, would you spend your days translating it all?
Granted, blocking everyone is a tad extreme, but the guy's free to operate his socials however he sees fit - the same as anyone else is.

The internet's become a massively contradictory space over the past few years; you can get cancelled for not using someones preferred pronouns, but if you ask that people communicate in your native tongue you're a beligerent twat?!

Ehh, what I'm trying to say there is that it's extreme to block someone for not knowing your native tongue. You can't expect people to know Japanese especially since that's a hard language for westerners to learn. Plus English is a pretty universal language since a lot of things use English such as website URL's as an example. (or the alphabet for stuff that's romanized for Japanese sites)
He can't expect everyone to know and much less speak Japanese fluently and it seems he just wants Japanese people to comment on his page like bro what... WE have to google translate everything we want to say to him? Not to mention like someone posted here his banner is full of him posting comments in English; whether google translated or not.

 

[skawo]

What you're saying comes across as ridiculously entitled.

Are you for real, dude? Kamiya wants the entire world to only speak in Japanese to him. How is THAT not entitled?

I get not wanting to deal with translating the comments, but... just ignore them, then? What do you think would happen when people noticed that he responds to Japanese comments only? He'd get his wish without being a massive dick about it.

Besides, sorry, but - English is the lingua franca of the modern world. You can rage all you want, but that is just a fact. My native language is not English, by the way.

Granted, blocking everyone is a tad extreme, but the guy's free to operate his socials however he sees fit - the same as anyone else is.

You're right, he is! Doesn't mean he can't be criticized for it.

The guy literally insults all of his foreign fans in his banner. It's only fair.

 

[Kraken_X]

With this news I won't be at all surprised if we hear of a Platinum buy-out in the not-too-distant future (I'm sure MS were after them a while back)... hopefully Kamiya will carry on the ethos of Platinum in whatever his new endeavours are.

Tencent Holdings supplied capital investment into Platinum in January 2020. It's unclear how much they actually control of the company. It's possible that could be part of the reason that Hideki is leaving.