Shinji Mikami and Goichi Suda are two titans of Japanese game development with some incredible games between them, including the likes of Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, and Killer 7.
Known for their somewhat punk attitude, the pair joined forces on Shadows of the Damned, released on PS3 and Xbox 360 back in 2011. Now it’s getting re-released as Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered.
That afforded me some time at Gamescom to speak to Mikami and Suda about their work together, the importance of remasters as part of game preservation, and if there are any games from their past they’d be keen to remake. They certainly had a lot of banter between them.
And of course, I had to ask Mikami about a new Dino Crisis game too.
How has it been working together again on Shadows of the Damned? It seems like, from the trailer [above] with all the different job titles, you have a very distinct sense of humour.
Suda: Actually, it’s simply a remaster of the original, and as far as all the actual development work and everything, that’s all been done by us at Grasshopper. Mikami is pretty much coming along with us for promotions, like a special guest, doing interviews and stuff like that. So it’s not that we worked together doing the remaster. It’s mostly a Grasshopper thing, but he’s come along for the ride.