Mikami: "It'll just cause me stress if I play RE5"

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Ex-Capcom Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami has said that he won't play Resident Evil 5.

Speaking in a recent interview with Official PlayStation magazine, Mikami, who's now working on games with ex-Capcom studio Platinum Games, said that playing Resi 5 would "just cause me stress".


"I probably won't play it. I won't like it, because it's not going to be the game I would have made," he said. "It'll just cause me stress if I play it. I think it could be fun for gamers to play it, but not for someone who has developed Resident Evil games.

"If I see anything in Resident Evil 5 that isn't done well, I'll be angry!"

On number five's similarities to Mikami's fourth Resi, he says "that's fine, isn't it? I think Resident Evil 5 doesn't need to change the series, but Resident Evil 6 will have to reinvent the series with another full model change or else it won't be able to keep on going."

Mikami's current projects are a joint Suda 51 horror game with EA and an unannounced game for Sega.

Mikami calls working on two projects at once "difficult", "but I'm director on my game for Platinum Games and producer on the game for EA. So if Suda does his job properly, my workload will decrease."

quote Seeker X

Problem with that is that Mikami himself was responsible for RE4 and the whole gameplay change.

We all make mistakes. At least we've seen that he is capable of creating good Resident Evil games. Although I essentially agree with you, I sense a bit of jealousy since he's no longer working on the series and has no input for the latest installment.

quote Blind Sniper

Why is it that RE5 doesn't need to change the series, but RE6 does? I didn't really get that comment. If the series needs to be changed, then why say it should be done later? Why not say it should've been done NOW instead of basically doing a copy-and-paste?

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quote VulcanRaven

Perhaps he feels the series will get tiring and repetitive if it keeps using this style of gameplay for too long.

Well he did the same for RE's 1, 2, 3, CVX, and whatnot.