Hideki Kamiya Will Likely Take His Vision for Bayonetta ‘To the Grave’ After Leaving Platinum
Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya has said he’ll likely take his vision for the franchise “to the grave” after leaving developer PlatinumGames in September 2023.
In his latest YouTube video, Kamiya said he originally planned the “Bayonetta saga”, which currently spans three mainlines games, as a nine game series. That being said, his departure from PlatinumGames means that vision will likely never see the light of day, even if the developer makes more games without him.
“I’ve talked about this in various interviews, that the Bayonetta series would consist of a total of nine episodes and that I wanted to grow the franchise as the Bayonetta saga,” Kamiya said. “But it seems like I may have to take the full saga to the grave with me. It’s a shame. It’s not like I own the Bayonetta IP, but I suppose those who do will probably keep it going.”
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The series began in 2009 with the release of the first Bayonetta but sequels took a while to release. Bayonetta 2 arrived in 2014 while Bayonetta 3 came in 2022. A spin-off called Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon arrived in 2023, but it’s unclear if Kamiya viewed this as part of the nine game saga he had planned.
PlatinumGames hasn’t announced another Bayonetta as of yet, but the franchise is a fan favourite and is arguably the developer’s premiere game series.
Kamiya — who directed Resident Evil 2 and was chief creator of Devil May Cry while working at Capcom, before leading the likes of Bayonetta and The Wonderful 101 at PlatinumGames — was vague about his decision to leave in September, saying only it came based on his own beliefs.
He did offer a bit more insight in his premiere YouTube video in October, alongside revealing he can’t work in video games for a year. “I left the company because I wanted to follow my beliefs as a game creator,” he said. “And to choose the path I think is right and move on.”
That path won’t involve other iconic Japanese video game developers apparently. Kamiya also said during his latest video that working with the likes of Nier: Automata director Yoko Taro or Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima “would be a disaster”.
He explained: “It doesn’t work like in Dragon Ball, where Goku fuses with other characters. Two people with completely different personalities and ideas would clash. There’s no way you’d get a decent game out of that.”
PlatinumGames will go on without Kamiya, of course, though the studio’s upcoming game Project G.G. was portrayed as his next pet project. Kamiya told IGN in December 2022 it was “going to be so big that you won’t even be able to compare The Wonderful 101: Remastered and Sol Cresta to it”.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.
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