Japan is a game country, giving birth to many famous game producers, and ushered in its own game era.
Many players have their favorite game makers, in the eyes of the editor, the three most representative of them are Shinji Mikami, who created the Resident Evil series, Hideo Kojima, who launched the "Metal Gear Solid" series, and Hidetaka Miyazaki, who created the soul game.
Today we will first talk about Shinji Mikami.
Recently, due to the hot launch of "Ghost Line: Tokyo" and attracted a lot of attention, the producer of the game, Shinji Mikami, also accepted interviews with foreign media. In the interview, he expressed his desire to "hope that in the future, his studio can develop more non-horror games, or non-AAA games."
At the end, he also stressed very sincerely that "some people may find Ghost Line Tokyo a bit scary, but make no mistake, it's actually an arcade-style action-adventure game." ”
As we all know, Shinji Mikami is famous overseas for the "Resident Evil" series, countless players were scared to death by these games, and later the game was adapted into a movie and released worldwide, which made this IP a household name.
However, only the first four parts of the Resident Evil series were produced by Shinji Mikami himself, and from the fifth part onwards, the game producer was replaced by Takeuchi Jun. So we can see that the style of Resident Evil 5 has changed significantly, from box-style horror decryption to action shooters.
After leaving Capcom, Shinji Mikami founded Platinum Studios with other producers, but he didn't make a game that would sell well.
Three years later, he left again, this time creating Tango Gameworks, making his familiar horror game, and soon he released Haunted. With the help of new owner Bethesda, the game has achieved good results in terms of word-of-mouth and sales.
Shinji Mikami originally had the title of "Father of Resident Evil", and with the launch of the "Evil Possessed" game, players naturally thought that he was the best at making horror games, so the first impression of "Ghost Line: Tokyo" was also the horror genre, but Shinji Mikami personally denied this view.
Through Shinji Mikami's documentaries and other genres of games he has produced, he learned that he actually has no special preference for horror games, but is just a strict and professional game producer.
It is precisely because of the strict requirements for the quality of the game that when making the Resident Evil series, Shinji Mikami took the horror element very seriously, and achieved the "famous name" of "Resident Evil". It's not because he likes the horror element, it's that he thinks that horror games should be scary, able to scare players, which is what producers should focus on.
However, Shinji Mikami did not limit his talents and ideas to the framework of horror games. When he was in Capcom, he asked Hideki Kamiya to create a new style of game, which led to the later Devil May Cry series.
Now, without the constraints of Capcom's leadership, Shinji Mikami can independently carry out company reform management and try more game themes.
According to Shinji Mikami's current plan, he wants to transform the company into a small team, make more small-scale games instead of AAA masterpieces, and cultivate more excellent game developers. Let's look forward to their future works!