Platinum Games Co-Founder Hideki Kamiya Reveals Why He Left The Studio

More than two months after leaving Platinum Games, co-founder and The Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya has revealed why he left the studio. In a new interview withIGN, Kamiya told the publication he decided to leave "because I felt that the direction the company was heading in was different from my beliefs as a developer.""Without that element of trust, I couldn't continue working there, and so I left, so that I could continue working in what I consider to be the right way," Kamiya said. "I don't think of games as products, but rather as works of art. I want to put my artistry into games and deliver games that could only be made by Hideki Kamiya, so that players can enjoy Hideki Kamiya games exactly as they are."I decided to leave the company and forge my own path, to continue making games that reflect the developers who made them."Kamiya announced in September that he was leaving the company. His final day was October 12, and that same day, he revealed he had started...