Four years later, the guy behind Devil’s Third is ready to make another video game

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Tomonobu Itagaki, the man behind Dead or alive And modern Ninja Gaiden The title is ready to return to the game in four years.

With flowing hair and ever-present sunglasses, Itagaki is one of the most famous characters in Japanese games, but hasn’t made a video game since its Wii U-only release. Devil’s Third In 2015.

Originally intended to publish THQ on PS3 and Xbox 360, Nintendo itself planned to publish it in the end, but received a rather frosty and critical welcome. On 5/10, “Devil’s Third is a strange beast. In some respects it’s fascinating and fascinating, and in other respects it’s a nightmare.” Instead, he said it was “low player skill” and later added that Nintendo of America disappointed reviewers by not making online mode fully playable before its release.

That particular game was created at Valhalla Game Studios, which was founded after parting with Tecmo (now Koei Tecmo) in 2008. He resigned from Valhalla in 2017 and revealed at the end of an interview with Bloomberg (He shares on his Facebook page) He has been working on developing young talent for the past few years:

I’ve been teaching junior training for the past four years, but now I want to make games again and have just set up a company for that.

Itagaki has set up a new studio – Itagaki Games – but if you’re one of the few people he wants to reunite with Nintendo and create. Devil’s Third 2 For Switch, you may be disappointed. Itagaki seems keen to work with Microsoft to rekindle the relationship that began when the original Xbox console was launched. When asked about Xbox fans waiting to see what he would do next, he replied:

You can rely on me for it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to accept the interview for this Xbox article … I think Microsoft is still aggressive. It would be an honor for me if they contacted me.