No Okami

[Depression Moon]

In Game Informer's 201st issue there is an article titled Action Hero. It's an interview with the Platinum Games' employee Hideki Kamiya.

In this article he talks about his relationships with Capcom and Sega and moving to platinum. The one thing in that interview that got me the most was when he discussed his feeling on the game Okami, which he created.


He said he felt strongly about making a sequel to the game for a while up until the point where Capcom decided to create that funny new DS sequel. Here is the quote

Up until very recently I really felt someday I wanted to make a sequel to Okami, and there were others who wanted me to as well. But then the other day I heard the announcement that someone else would be making a sequel and now I'm just not that interested anymore. Once someone else touches a world that you yourself created it stops being yours. There is no point in making a sequel when the world doesn't belong to you. Viewtiful Joe is probably all I've got left. The story is incomplete so I'd like to finish it someday. But that would probably be the most difficult one to do.

That upsets me. Capcom had to go and make a cash in sequel for one of the best games ever and the result of that is losing what could have been a true sequel to one of the best games ever.