It is been introduced in the newest factor of Famitsu Mag that PlatinumGames clothier Takahisa Taura is parting tactics with the developer with the intention to get started paintings on his personal corporate, Eel Recreation Studio.
As printed in a put up through Genki, and noticed through the oldsters over at VGC, Taura said on a couple of social media websites that he hasn’t were given anything else he needs to percentage in relation to his new undertaking simply but, however in reality it is the truth of any other giant title leaving Platinum that is the actual worry for fanatics of the studio.
Taura’s paintings will probably be widely known to any avid fan of excellent motion video games, with the unbelievable Astral Chain, which we raved about in our 9/10 evaluate, a specific spotlight. Certainly, taking the director’s chair on one of the crucial distinctive motion video games of its technology without a doubt marks his new undertaking out as one thing to observe with very keen eyes certainly.
To not point out that he is additionally led the design of what will have to be one of the crucial influential video games — with regards to its unbelievable taste — of the previous decade or thereabouts, within the type of Nier Automata. Ah, Mr Taura, with this resume you’re in reality spoiling us.
Hideki Kamiya parted tactics with PG in 2023, after two complete a long time with the gang, with the intention to transfer directly to paintings with Capcom on an Okami follow-up by way of his new Clovers corporate. Kamiya, chatting with Jap outlet Recreation*Spark previous this yr, unfolded somewhat in this transfer, pronouncing that the Platinum were:
“regularly moving in opposition to a contemporary fashion of recreation building that doesn’t position significance at the creators’ individuality…despite the fact that it supposed the tip of my occupation as a author…I couldn’t permit myself to kill my soul with the intention to paintings in an atmosphere that I didn’t trust”.
Kamiya additionally showed a couple of different high-level staffers had hand over PlatinumGames in a video posted to his YouTube channel in February of this yr.
Proper on the finish of this video, Kamiya has a “bonus” segment the place Abebe Tinari (director of Bayonetta Origins), Yusuke Miyata (Bayonetta 3’s director), Kenji Saito (lead director on Steel Tools Emerging: Revengeance), and Masaki Yamanaka (Anarchy Reigns and Resident Evil persona clothier) are showed to have left. This, in fact, adopted on from different departures in 2024, which noticed a number of veterans depart their positions.
It is without a doubt been a topsy-turvy time for PlatinumGames of overdue, then, that is evidently, so we are maintaining all of our arms and ft crossed that their new undertaking, Ninja Gaiden 4(!) lives as much as the corporate’s unbelievable previous shape.
