{"id":45532,"date":"2025-03-12T17:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T08:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=45532"},"modified":"2025-03-12T17:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T08:27:23","slug":"hideki-kamiya-wants-his-new-studio-to-inherit-the-teachings-of-resident-evil-creator-shinji-mikami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/hideki-kamiya-wants-his-new-studio-to-inherit-the-teachings-of-resident-evil-creator-shinji-mikami\/","title":{"rendered":"Hideki Kamiya wants his new studio to inherit the teachings of Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following his departure from PlatinumGames and a year of self-proclaimed \u201cunemployment,\u201d Bayonetta creator Kamiya Hideki became the studio head and lead game designer at the brand-new game company Clovers. In a recent interview with Game*Spark<\/a>, Kamiya talked about his relationship with former Capcom colleague Shinji Mikami and the \u2018spirit\u2019 he wishes to keep nurturing at Clovers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While explaining why he named his new studio “CLOVERS” and the meaning behind it<\/a>, Kamiya comments that the reference to Capcom\u2019s now-defunct Clover Studio (where Kamiya made Okami and Viewtiful Joe) is not due to him \u201cclinging to the past.\u201d Instead, he explains, \u201cIf there\u2019s anything I\u2019m particular about, it\u2019s Capcom Production Studio 4. Studio 4 is where my career started, and where I learned from Shinji Mikami \u2013 a person who has been absolutely indispensable to my career, both as a creator and as my superior.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hideki<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Production Studio 4 was a development division of Capcom led by Shinji Mikami. It put out acclaimed titles like Resident Evil, Resident Evil 4, Devil May Cry and Killer7 before its closure in 2005. Kamiya comments that he learned many important things from Mikami during his time at Studio 4, which he has continued to value ever since. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBack then, we used to call what Mikami taught us the \u2018spirit of the 4th.\u2019 The reason I left PlatinumGames was because the company\u2019s way of thinking was gradually shifting towards a modern model of game development that doesn’t place importance on the creators\u2019 individuality.\u201d This went against the \u2018spirit\u2019 of Studio 4, which Kamiya had adopted as his own ideal, prompting him to resign from PlatinumGames<\/a>. \u201cEven if it meant the end of my career as a creator, I couldn\u2019t allow myself to kill my soul in order to work in an environment that I didn\u2019t agree with,\u201d he comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Devil<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kamiya says his new studio Clovers a \u201cfresh start\u201d for him. He notes that he doesn\u2019t literally teach staff things by directly quoting Mikami, but that he has internalized a lot of Mikami\u2019s teachings. \u201cI don’t tell the staff \u2018This is what Mikami-san would say\u2019 every step of the way, but in the course of developing games up to now, I have always made decisions based on his teachings, and I have shared them with the production team.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kamiya concludes on the topic by commenting, \u201cI believe that this spirit will be passed down from generation to generation, and I have incorporated it into our company name to reaffirm the things I have valued in my many years as a creator.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an aside, Kamiya has previously talked about Mikami\u2019s philosophy when it comes to creating horror games<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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