Devil May Cry and Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya is returning to work at Capcom, as his dream sequel to Ōkami will get its first trailer.
There have been many surprises on Thursday night time’s The Game Awards 2024 ceremony, from the primary The Witcher 4 trailer to Naughty Dog’s subsequent sport, however whereas some did a minimum of guess (or moderately hope) these is likely to be featured we doubt anybody had a sequel to Ōkami on their bingo card.
Presenter Geoff Keighley nearly appeared to tear up as he introduced the sport, which solely received a really temporary teaser trailer – of Shinto solar goddess Amaterasu working internationally in wolf type (the title ōkami is a pun on the Japanese phrases for wolf and nice god).
The sport was by no means truly known as Ōkami 2, so the precise title will in all probability simply contain a subtitle of some type, however the different shock information was that authentic director Hideki Kamiya will likely be engaged on the sport.
The authentic Ōkami was one of many final video games Kamiya made earlier than serving to to co-found PlatinumGames, which he left beneath pretty mysterious circumstances in 2023, with one sport nonetheless in growth.
Whether he jumped or was pushed isn’t clear, however he’s been on gardening depart ever since and the Ōkami sequel will likely be his first new challenge since then.
He’s not truly becoming a member of Capcom although and as a substitute will likely be growing the sport at his new studio Clovers (a nod to Clover Studio, which was the title of the interior developer he labored on at Capcom when he was making Ōkami), which additionally employs different those who labored on the unique sport.
External studios M-Two (who helped out with Resident Evil 3 remake) and Machine Head Works (who did the identical for Resident Evil 4 remake) will likely be aiding with growth as effectively.
An Ōkami sequel has been a dream challenge of Kamiya for a few years now, the truth is he hinted about making it to us all the way in which again in 2016, after we spoke to him at E3. A month later we spoke to him once more and he was speaking about desirous to collaborate with Capcom for a brand new challenge, which can effectively have been the place all this began.
Despite being among the best Zelda model video games not made by Nintendo, and ported and remastered on each format beneath the solar, Ōkami has by no means been financially profitable.
Even so, it’s clear that Kamiya just isn’t the one one at Capcom with a tender spot for it, because it did get a Nintendo DS sequel already, known as Ōkamiden, made by a special staff – after Kamiya and co. had already left to type Platinum.
When will Ōkami 2 be launched?
The solely drawback with the Ōkami sequel annoucement is that not solely did the trailer not reveal something, aside from the graphics will nonetheless be amazingly lovely, however Capcom has warned that the sport is ‘nonetheless some time away from launch.’
Kaimya has solely simply began engaged on the sport, so that you’re in all probability 2028 on the very least earlier than it’s going to be prepared, which goes to be a really painful wait.
If it’s that far out then it’ll in all probability be a pair extra years till the rest is proven or mentioned, though maybe Kaimya will clarify a bit extra about what’s occurred to himself within the meantime.
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