Final 12 months, online game director and designer Hideaki Itsuno ended his three-decade run with Capcom after guiding quite a few franchises, together with Devil May Cry. Now, Itsuno has revealed that one of many causes he left his former firm is that he did not wish to get slowed down making the identical titles he did earlier than.
Itsuno instructed VGC that Lightspeed’s provide to let him create a brand new AAA sport was too good to cross up, and he felt that it was his “final probability” to problem himself.
“For Capcom, creating Devil May Cry and Dragon’s Dogma sequels is the highest precedence, and holding in thoughts that making a sport takes 4 or 5 years, this could be my final huge alternative … Before you [realize it], you might be engaged on making Devil May Cry 6 or 7. It is not like I do not wish to make them, I do. However it’s arduous to stability the time it takes with the private satisfaction of constructing them. And with Devil May Cry 5 and Dragon’s Dogma 2, I already did what I wished to make.”
Itsuno did not share many particulars about his new challenge for Lightspeed, nonetheless, a number of former Capcom devs from Devil May Cry and Avenue Fighter are slated to hitch the corporate’s second studio in Osaka, Japan. Among the notable additions embody the artist referred to as Bengus, Devil May Cry author Toshihiro Nakagawa, and character designer Daigo Ikeno.
“It is good to have the ability to work with folks whom I belief, like Mr. Nakagawa,” mentioned Itsuno. “I’ve been working with him for many years, since Devil May Cry 2, and he is a kind of core members who understands me very nicely. He labored as a contract situation author, and he got here once I known as him. If we combine my style and his style, I consider we will make a fantastic sport collectively.”
For now, it is unclear when or if a Devil May Cry sequel will arrive, however the Devil May Cry anime sequence on Netflix will return for Season 2 in 2026.
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