In a wide-ranging discussion on his career with fellow Japanese developer Ikumi Nakamura, the man behind beloved action classics like Devil May Cry and Bayonetta directly addressed his old employer, Capcom, with a request: let him back in the studio to make sequels to two of his games.
In 2006 Kamiya directed the Zelda-like adventure game Okami, which we rated highly more than a decade later when it was finally ported to PC. It was his last game at Capcom—the company closed the internal studio that had made Okami shortly after its release, and many of the developers (including Kamiya) left to found Platinum. But after nearly 20 years, it seems like Kamiya still feels like he has unfinished business.
