Platinum's Inaba defends Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Kojima "took a gamble" on Bayonetta developer
Atsushi Inaba, the executive director of Platinum Games, has spoken out on Twitter to defend his company's involvement with new title Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
At the VGA awards it was announced that the Bayonetta developer had taken over production of the game from Kojima Productions.
"It seems there are some who wish to imply PlatinumGames was able to achieve what Kojima Productions could not -- interviewers among them," said Inaba.
"This notion is spurious. Clearly, we have not yet produced any results in the world of Metal Gear."
He defended the work of Kojima Productions, and accepted that the change of development team was a risk.
"The gap is immense. Mr. Kojima tossed his chips on our table, believing we could handle the task. In other words, he took a gamble."
As well as a new developer the game's title changed from Metal Gear Rising to Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, but Inaba explains that this does not reflect changes to the game, and that the team was excited by both the lead character, Raiden, and the sword play concept.
"I know reaction to the new trailer is mixed. Yet I also believe our love and respect shines through," he continued.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance trailer
"It is my hope that you catch a glimpse of the future in the footage. In order to achieve that evolution, that future, we at PlatinumGames will continue to fight, shedding our own blood, sweat and tears."
Platinum developer Hideki Kamiya also took to Twitter to deny any personal involvement with the project.
" I said 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times that I have nothing to do with Metal Gear Rising."
The game is due for release next year.
I like the name change from "metal gear Solid rising" to MetalGear Rising. However the name Revengeance sounds retarded. It would have been nice to see metalGear Rising: Redemption. But anyway, the other thing I didnt like is that Raiden is just too bad ass, even more than metal gear solid 4. And it becomes rediculouse in 2 parts of the clip, the fight on the train, were he is running on the walls and the part were he tosses a Metal gear ray, with one hand, as if it was a rag doll in the trash. A metal Gear is supposed to be the most badass boss character in the game. And here he just cuts through them like butter. It is not believable, I CANT feel for this "new raiden" the way I felt for solid snake. I have no doubt this will be a great game. i will purchase it, because it looks cool. But its just not a Metal gear game to me, and as a MetalGear fan, it is a huge dissapointment for the direction of the series. No more sneaking, no more story lines that mix fact with fiction... It was nice to see the awsome fictional story, mixed with historic events like John F. Kennedy, cuban Missle crisis, nuclear weapon development, worlds first HALO jump, cold war and that whole thing about CQC. it was nice to see a character who wasnt invincible that can be shot and killed like a real person if he fucked up in the mission. Snake despite all the technology available to him and fictional story, it was believable. This is not and this isnt even the same Raiden. i do hope the story takes place when raiden was rescuing Sunny from the patriots and we see Meryl Silverburgh who supposdly helped out.
Posted:A year ago