After saying that he would accomplish that late final month, Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya left his job as vice chairman at PlatinumGames on October 12. And the exact same day he grew to become freed from the studio he’d co-founded, he additionally hard-launched a brand new YouTube channel, “Hideki Kamiya Channel.” Its first and solely video (which has two variations, with English or Japanese subtitles) options Kamiya explaining his choice to depart Platinum, what he’ll do now that he’s left, and his prolonged ideas on making curry.
“[I] made CURRY the opposite day,” English subtitles say. “I had cravings for do-it-yourself curry. […] I went to the grocery store and acquired components whereas wanting on the recipe on my telephone. It says one onion, or perhaps it was one-and-a-half, and one potato…”
Yeah, Kamiya doesn’t appear anguished about leaving Platinum, the place he directed action-adventure recreation The Fantastic 101 and supervised each Bayonetta follow-up. The video exhibits him carrying a field full of collectible collectible figurines and plushies down from the Platinum workplace, about which he can solely say, “I’m over it. I’m so over it.”
Later within the video, Kamiya—along with his silver sport sun shades on—says that it’s been three months since he settled on quitting Platinum, which he needed to do out of his “beliefs as a recreation creator.”
“I’m not going to retire but,” he says. “I wish to hold creating video games,” although “causes” he couldn’t elaborate on—most likely a non-compete clause hooked up to his contract at Platinum—forestall him from working within the gaming business for at the least a 12 months. For now, Kamiya, who’s been within the gaming business for some 30 years, says he’s feeling “very refreshed” watching Netflix as a substitute of “[attending] these boring conferences with all types of vital folks.” He guarantees to publish solely “fully ineffective” data on his YouTube channel.
“[My channel] received’t be assist to anybody desirous to be within the gaming business,” he says. (Pictures fired, Sakurai.) Then he drives his bitter cherry pink Lamborghini into body. He pushes open one in every of its batwing doorways to talk to the digicam: “Off to the UNEMPLOYMENT CENTER. See ya!”
I’m completely satisfied for him—the one factor extra fulfilling than spending a long time of your life turning into a serious, highly effective determine in a cutthroat, inventive business is doing completely nothing.
