Clovers Studio head Hideki Kamiya says the very fact his new studio is engaged on an Okami sequel doesn’t imply it’ll focus solely on current IP sooner or later.
Kamiya, who left PlatinumGames a yr and a half in the past to kind the brand new studio with former Platinum colleague Kento Koyama, says he doesn’t wish to give the impression that the newly based Clovers Studio will specialize in sequels and religious successors.
In a brand new interview with Japanese publication GameSpark, Kamiya and Koyama have been requested how they felt concerning the studio’s relationship with current IP.
Koyama replied that Clovers’ key stance is that it “won’t shut off any prospects on the subject of making video games”, and that on the subject of contemplating what to work on subsequent, the studio might imagine it may very well be attention-grabbing to make a sequel to an current IP, or a religious successor, or a completely new IP altogether.
“Principally, I don’t assume that we restricted the strategies we use in our method to our coverage of making attention-grabbing video games,” Koyama mentioned (through translation).
Agreeing, Kamiya burdened that a very powerful factor wasn’t whether or not the sport was primarily based on an current collection, however whether or not it’s attention-grabbing. “If we have been requested to make a recreation that makes use of an current IP, and if it appeared like it will be attention-grabbing to ‘Cloverize’ it in our personal approach, then we might do it,” he mentioned.
“However in fact, if we get a challenge proposal that we actually wish to work on, and the need to go it grows, then we’ll do an unique work too. So I believe it’s acceptable to say we received’t shut off any prospects – ultimately, all of it comes down as to if or not we get a ‘wow’ feeling from it.”
Kamiya concluded by saying he understands by making a studio that instantly begins work on a sequel to one in every of his earlier video games, some individuals will get the impression that that is Clovers Studio’s purpose with all its future video games, however that this isn’t the case.
“We’re solely engaged on one factor in the mean time, and it simply so occurs that it’s an IP I used to be concerned with previously, so I believe it’s inevitable that that impression is robust,” he defined. “The truth that we’re attracting consideration due to that expectation is one thing we’re grateful for, however I wish to reiterate that simply because that is our first shot, it doesn’t imply that that is all we’ve to supply.”
