Hideki Kamiya’s new Capcom-backed studio, Clovers, has employed a roster of former PlatinumGames composers and sound designers to work on Okami 2.
The studio introduced in a current replace that Hiroshi Yamaguchi, the lead composer of Bayonetta who additionally made music for the unique 2006 Okami recreation, Bayonetta 2, Bayonetta 3, Star Fox Zero, and extra, has joined.
Clovers‘ different newly recruited composers are Hitomi Kurokawa, who wrote music for the Bayonetta collection and The Great 101, and Aoba Nakanishi, who was lead composer for 2023’s Bayonetta Origins.
Hideki Kamiya has additionally been reunited with longtime sound design collaborator Misaki Shindo, who was lead sound designer for The Great 101, NieR: Automata, and labored on each Bayonetta recreation. Lastly, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Bayonetta 3 sound designer Hiroki Niwa has joined the crew.
Kamiya co-founded Clovers in 2024 with Kento Koyama, co-director of 2021’s World of Demons. The Satan Might Cry and Resident Evil 2 director left PlatinumGames the earlier 12 months, and shortly after, he was adopted out the exit door by a roster of key workers.
It appears many PlatinumGames workers additionally determined to observe Kamiya to his new unbiased enterprise.
Clovers, which is absolutely unbiased, is main growth on a sequel to Okami, the 2006 journey recreation Kamiya directed, in partnership with Capcom.
Final January, Platinum broke its silence with a press release about its future, which was adopted by the announcement of a brand new Ninja Gaiden recreation, inbuilt collaboration with Koei Tecmo and Microsoft. Earlier this 12 months, it introduced additional work-for-hire tasks in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Final Ronin and eFootball.
Hideki Kamiya has beforehand stated that he expects Platinum to proceed the Bayonetta collection with out him, whereas expressing disappointment that he gained’t get to meet his imaginative and prescient for the collection.
“I’ve talked about this in numerous interviews, that the Bayonetta collection would include a complete of 9 episodes, and that I needed to develop the franchise because the Bayonetta ‘Saga’, but it surely looks as if I’ll need to take the total saga to the grave with me,” he stated in 2023.
“It’s a disgrace. It’s not like I personal the Bayonetta IP, however I suppose those that do will most likely hold it going.”
