Viewtiful Joe Creator Still Interested In The IP
Hideki Kamiya has quite a few IPs under his belt, Okami, Devil May Cry, Bayonetta and even Capcom’s somewhat ignored but not at all missable Viewtiful Joe. Fans of the Viewtiful Joe series have always been very vocal in their love for the short lived franchise, but it seems that Hideki Kamiya himself is on the same page.
Speaking in the upcoming issue of Game Informer Kamiya expressed his feelings to return to the series, and how he feels he can’t return to Okami.
I don’t have the rights to any of the IPs that I’ve made. They belong to the companies that publish them, and they’re a business so they have a right to exploit those IPs as they want…. However, to be completely honest, I’d love to do them myself.
Up until very recently I really felt someday I wanted to make a sequel to Okami, and there were others who wanted me to as well. But then the other day I heard the announcement that someone else would be making a sequel and now I’m just not interested in it anymore. Once someone else touches a world that you yourself created it stops being yours. There is no point in making a sequel when the world doesn’t belong to you. Viewtiful Joe is probably all I’ve got left. That story is incomplete so I’d like to finish it someday. But that would probably be the most difficult one to do
It’s far from a confirmation of a sequel but it’s closer than what we’ll get out of Yu Suzuki about Shenmue III.
Source: Gameinformer.com
MY FINAL COMMENT ON VJ3:
Well, I’ve gone and posted constantly on ever website I could on this topic.
This is my last shout-out to the subject:
What is wrong with finishing off Viewtiful Joe?
It was one of the first games of the PS2 generation in my book that really had some hardcore fights to it. It had unique gameplay, awesome music, and enemies that could really pack a punch if you let your guard down for even half a second. The storyline was interesting, and it even has ties into The Devil May Cry series.
It also had some replay value. Tired of playing as Joe? You had a group of hidden characters to choose from. If the boss fights weren’t enough to put anyone on edge, you could even amp up the difficulty of the game!
Then, we had the sequel. Even more enemies, brutal challenges, and a slew of bosses to combat. Along with that, suped up, mecha versions of bosses like Harriers. Once again, tough-as-nails gameplay that you rarely see nowadays. We even got a DS version of the game, and Red Hot Rumble as well.
So, ask me, WHY don’t we have a final game?!
For one thing, people just don’t appreciate the difficulty of games like this. Many gamers aren’t that interested in REAL challenges! If that wasn’t bad enough, Clover Studios shut down and the development team was lost! Near five years of supsense on the story’s end. WHY keep everyone in a permanent cliffhanger?
Really, there’s creative potential lingering on this game. There was a brief glimpse of a third game in the works right before we lost the game franchise.
VJ3 could bring even more difficult to the plate by upgrading the enemies even further. Wouldn’t it rock to see mechanized versions of Black Thunder,
the tanks, and even more killing machines? Now if only they could combine into a giant robot at some point later on? It’s a tried and true idea: hardcore fighting games get the adrenaline pumping.
Finally, what about the ultimate enemy, the supposed Evil King? How come we don’t have a final faceoff against the enemy that actually caused the start
of the story in the first place???
Capcom just doesn’t see what happens when you drop an idea that won you over
in the past. So what if it was simplicit? It’s the complex games we’re seeing
on the larger memory consoles of new game platforms that sparked bad controversy on Viewtiful Joe! Doesn’t anyone see that this could result in a better sequel? Longer, tougher, and “viewtiful” to the very end.
Wherever you are Hideki Kamiya, I hope you see this comment. Do me and everyone else justice and get your IP rights back somehow!
If not, it was worth a try. No need to bark in the dark anymore.
Just gotta love that I didn’t proofread this comment!
Only members can edit their comments I’m afraid.