Hideki Kamiya was being tremendous critical about resurrecting Scalebound, PlatinumGames’ dragon-filled romp that was cancelled by Xbox almost a decade in the past.
The famed director has been on the helm of just about too many beloved video games – Bayonetta, Resident Evil 2, Satan Might Cry, Okami – so it is fairly straightforward to look again and marvel what may’ve been along with his canned Xbox venture. However it appears that evidently thought pops up in Kamiya’s head from time to time, too.
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When requested if he is spoken to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma about reviving the sport, in an interview with VGC, Kamiya mentioned no, however he is greater than keen to rekindle the skilled relationship. “Now’s my alternative to as soon as once more say that in the event that they wish to do it, let’s make it occur!” He additionally talked about that a lot of PlatinumGames alumni now work at his new improvement studio Clovers, which is at present making Okami 2, one other long-awaited comeback.
“After all, it’s extremely unlucky that the venture was unable to see the sunshine of day finally, and that’s one thing that even now I nonetheless very strongly want to have the ability to see by if it is all potential, and I am being 100% critical after I say that,” Kamiya continued.
He then defined that Clovers “won’t be ready to do this proper this second.” The nonetheless fresh-faced studio is probably going all aboard the Okami 2 practice with writer Capcom for the time being, however Kamiya’s remaining optimistic. “I strongly consider that if you need one thing strongly sufficient, you ultimately discover a technique to make it occur. That is the case with Okami proper now, the place even in any case these years, the chance as soon as once more introduced itself, and I hope that would be the case with Scalebound sooner or later as properly.”
The much-hyped sport was initially introduced as an Xbox One unique all the way in which again in 2014 and spent about 4 years in improvement earlier than Microsoft pulled the plug in 2017. Just a few years later, PlatinumGames CEO Atsushi Inaba mentioned each events had been guilty for the venture’s demise.
What we did see of Scalebound earlier than its abrupt dying appeared very promising, although. Your headphone-wearing, sword-slashing protag was nearly all the time accompanied by an enormous dragon who would trigger chaos, chomp your enemies up and splash fireplace all throughout the battlefield.