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Hideki Kamiya's "artistic spirit would die" had he stayed at Platinum Games

Hideki Kamiya has stated if he'd continued working for Platinum Games his "artistic spirit [would] die".

Okami sequel - Project Teaser Trailer Watch on YouTube"This is purely my personal opinion, but I thought, 'If I continue working here, my artistic spirit will die'," said Kamiya on his reasons for leaving Platinum last year(via machine translation). "I can understand the way PlatinumGames is as a company and its logic, and I was in the position of vice president myself, but as an individual named Hideki Kamiya, I was unable to embrace that way of thinking." As vice president, Kamiya was "field-first" at Platinum Games - he described himself as the muscle and CEO Atsushi Inaba as the brains.

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