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Hideki Kamiya breaks out the tiny violin for the 9 Bayonetta games he once imagined: 'I may have to take the full saga to the grave'
27.11.2023 - 16:33 / pcgamer.com
Hideki Kamiya, formerly of Capcom and PlatinumGames, is now out in the world as a civilian. The legendary director is responsible for some of the best action games ever made, in particular Bayonetta, but following his departure from Platinum earlier this year (a company he co-founded) it doesn't seem like he's going to be involved much in games anymore.
Hopefully I'm wrong, but at the moment Kamiya seems content to make YouTube videos showing off his ludicrous car and talking about his love of aquariums. In the latest he addresses some audience questions about his games and, when asked about Bayonetta, the violins really start playing.
«I worked on Bayonetta 1, 2, 3 and Origins,» Kamiya said. «I've talked about this in various interviews: that the Bayonetta series would consist of a total of nine episodes, and that I wanted to grow the franchise as the Bayonetta 'Saga', but it seems like I may have to take the full saga to the grave with me.»
Kamiya directed the first entry in the series, before stepping back into supervisory roles as he worked on, among other things, the ill-fated Scalebound.
«It's a shame,» says Kamiya of leaving the series behind at PlatinumGames. «It's not like I own the Bayonetta IP, but I suppose those who do will probably keep it going.»
Elsewhere in the video Kamiya clarified his involvement in the Bayonetta series generally, saying «people got the mistaken impression that I wasn't involved with Bayonetta 3, but I was indeed deeply involved. I was the director on Bayonetta [and on the sequels] stepped back into more of a supervisory role, but I still handled things like the story and character settings to keep the Bayonetta universe consistent.»
Perhaps the most amusing bit of the video, which covers a range of topics, is when Kamiya gets into his personal philosophy of blocking. To set the scene a little Kamiya was once infamous on social media for blocking users who asked seemingly anodyne questions, often quote-tweeting the unfortunate user with «BLOCKED» or some variant thereof, and directing others to his Twilog page (which displays an individual user's tweets in a more readable bloglike format).
It could be brutal: yours truly was a committed Kamiya follower for years, before what I thought was an innocuous reply to one of his tweets saw my ass sent to Blocked Penitentiary.
«Ah, 'BLOCKED!'» says Kamiya of this era. «I think many people misunderstand how my blocks work, but there's an actual method to what I do.»
Kamiya admits he used to «block people who tweeted me in languages other than Japanese» but the reason was that their collectively «energetic» approach to questioning him left him with a «personal impression that a lot of people don't really look at what I
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