Devil May Cry and Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya is leaving PlatinumGames

Renowned action crippled developer PlatinumGames has conscionable announced that its co-founder, Hideki Kamiya, will time off nan institution connected October 12.

Kamiya historically has created and directed what galore would see immoderate of nan best single-player games of each time, including nan Devil May Cry and Bayonetta series, arsenic good arsenic nan original Resident Evil 2 on PS1 and, much recently, innovative games for illustration The Wonderful 101.

PlatinumGames confirmed nan news via a connection connected Twitter, expressing its acknowledgment to Kamiya and wishing him good successful his early endeavors. Kamiya co-founded nan institution backmost successful 2007 pinch respective different notable creators, including Shinji Mikami, nan begetter of Resident Evil.

Kamiya has ever been a mildly arguable and somewhat divisive fig successful nan industry. While he helped spearhead nan characteristic action subgenre that gave emergence to unthinkable games for illustration Astral Chain, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Vanquish, and Nier Automata, a batch of folks whitethorn only cognize Kamiya for his inclination to artifact swathes of group connected Twitter, and being very unfastened astir it.

And while nan nonstop logic for Kamiya's departure hasn't been confirmed, he himself took to Twitter aft nan announcement to state: "This came aft a batch of information based connected my ain beliefs. and was by nary intends an easy determination to make."

Platinum's caller output hasn't precisely held up to its lofty legacy. Fans mostly regarded Bayonetta 3 to beryllium a measurement down from anterior entries, while nan ill-fated unrecorded work title Babylon's Fall failed to find an audience correct retired of nan gate.

That isn't to opportunity nan institution is connected its past legs, though. Bayonetta Origins, a puzzle-platformer prequel, was well-received by fans. It besides provided support for Final Fantasy 16, notably helping to create nan Titan Lost leader fight, which is easy among nan champion successful nan game.

All that is to opportunity that PlatinumGames is apt to beryllium good without Kamiya starring nan charge, but his departure is nevertheless bittersweet for longtime fans of some him and PlatinumGames arsenic a whole.

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