Resident Evil Creator Originally Planned to Leave Tango Gameworks 8 Years Before Doing So - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 May 2024 / 4,302 Views
Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami in a recent interview with Japanese YouTube channel Byking and reported by Automaton revealed why he left Tango Gameworks and formed new studio Kamuy.
Mikami had originally planned to leave Tango Gameworks eight years before doing so, but he felt responsible to continue working on ongoing games prolonged his stay.
"I had only been CEO for 6 months," said Mikami. "I think a lot of people were under the impression that I was the representative, but I was very close to a rank-and-file employee. I had 'blank producer' attached to my name, but I wasn’t an executive or anything of the sort.
He stated the goal with his new studio, Kamuy, is to create an environment that allows young game creators to have more opportunities to gain experience with shorter development cycles. He has also been wanting to work on more unique and smaller-scale games, which led him to forming Kamuy.
The second reason he left was to break free from the survival horror game genre that he is best known for.
Mikami founded Tango Gameworks in 2010, which is the studio behind The Evil Within, Ghostwire: Tokyo, and Hi-Fi Rush, and ended up leaving the studio in 2023. Before Tango he worked at Capcom as the director on the first Resident Evil title, the GameCube remake, Resident Evil 4, and more.
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So basically he wanted to start over and felt that he could not do that at Tango, especially if he wanted to do more smaller titles like Hi Fi Rush instead bigger projects like Ghostwire. Also having to sell to Bethesda and pretty much just be a division in the company probably also did not sit well.
I believe going for much smaller projects is the way to go in this industry at the moment and I hope for nothing but big success. Hopefully, Shinji can get the funding needed if he does not have immediate capital as its rough out there right now trying to get money for projects.
Please lend your Godlike Talent Mikami -san for a Dino Crisis remake!
He worked at Platinum Games before he founded Tango and directed VanQuish. Get your facts straight.
What does that have to do with anything, its a report from another source talking about the interview. Also, it makes no mention of Platinum Games because the interview is about him leaving Tango and what Shinji perceived as the issues for him leaving. What facts are you actually talking about.
It’s video games buddy no need to be hostile no one cares that much
Right.
I'm not even sure if this is a mistake. The writer will have to confirm that. But I feel I commonly see that phrase written that way when an article wants to highlight noteworthy facts. I don't read it as "he ONLY worked at Capcom before Tango" or "he worked at Capcom RIGHT before Tango", but rather that he has worked at Capcom before he worked at Tango.
Especially when his time at Platinum seemingly wasn't brought up in the video, while they display two games of his. One from Tango and one from Capcom.
Either way, I think this could have been pointed out in a bit of a more polite manner, don't you agree?
