Bayonetta Studio Teases A Game That Turns 'The Action Genre On Its Head'

BayonettaandNieR : Automatadeveloper PlatinumGames has cock-a-hoop plans for the future , for they are developing a new biz that will reportedly upend the action genre . Largely comprised of former Capcom staff , PlatinumGames was founded in 2007 and boast some of the PM gift in Japanese TV game development .

PlatinumGames ' early achiever came in the grade of 2009’sBayonetta , a tight - step activity biz in the vein of director Hideki Kamiya’sDevil May Cryseries , and the Shinji Mikami directedVanquishproved that the studio apartment had plenty of innovational musical theme the following year . Since then , the developer has worked on a turn of high - profile freeing includingStar Fox Zero , Metal Gear Rising , andTransformers : Devastation . And now , they are looking to change the industry as a whole with one of their next releases .

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Two key members from PlatinumGames - director Hideki Kamiya and manufacturer Atsushi Inaba - recently give a talk at BitSummit in Japan ( viaDualShockers ) , where they revealed that the studio apartment is go on an unannounced championship that will " turn the action genre on its read/write head . "

The two PlatinumGames employees did n’t have much else to say about the unannounced game , but they did have some other teases in store . Kamiya asked the crowd if they were concerned in playing his action gameThe Wonderful 101if it was ported from Nintendo Wii U to exchange , and the interrogation welcome a positive reaction . Kamiya facetiously stated that the game should ’ve been identify " The Unwonderful 13 , " referencing the secret plan ’s poor sales on Wii U. The outspoken director also speak about secret plan budgets and say that having a lot of money does n’t guarantee achiever . As an case , Kamiya told the gang to look atPacific Rim Uprisingsince that was a " crappy motion-picture show " that had a high price tag attach to its production .

While this is obviously a sublime title from PlatinumGames , theyareone of the few studios out there that can really back it up . Last class , the developer releasedNieR : Automata , which acquire several biz of the year awards after receiving critical and commercial-grade acclaim . PlatinumGames also has a long chronicle of create top - nick activeness title ranging from the aforementionedBayonettatoMetal Gear RisingandThe wondrous 101 , all of which have found truehearted fan bases in addition to achieving acclaim .

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It ’s specially interesting to hear the unannounced task receiving such gamey kudos from Hideki Kamiya . conceive he ’s the originative mind behindDevil May Cry , Okami , Bayonetta , andViewtiful Joe , his glowing words should n’t be taken light . While Kamiya is currently directing the Nintendo Switch exclusiveBayonetta 3 , he was antecedently working on the Microsoft publishedScalebounduntil that biz was amazingly cancel in early 2017 .