20 years after the release of the original Ōkami, the great god Amaterasu, origin of all that is good and mother to us all, is making a triumphant and unexpected return.
Announced at The Game Awards last year, a sequel to Ōkami is in development. Hideki Kamiya, newly separated from Platinum Games, has formed his own new studio, Clovers, and taken the directing helm. He does this with the blessing of IP owner Capcom, which is serving as publisher, and with the support of Machine Head Works, a new-ish studio staffed by Capcom veterans that’s already supported several recent Capcom titles, including the Ōkami HD remake. Everything we’ve seen so far speaks to an all-star line-up of talent, mixing both new developers with veterans of the original Ōkami committed to seeing their original vision bloom.
But aside from a fairly emotional teaser and the names behind the Ōkami sequel, we’ve been somewhat short on details regarding what exactly to expect. Is it a direct sequel, or something else? Whose idea was it, and how did the project get off the ground after all these years? Was that Amaterasu in the trailer, or a lookalike wolf?
Recently, IGN had the opportunity to get some answers. Though the Ōkami sequel is still very, very early in development, we visited director Hideki Kamiya, Capcom producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, and Machine Head Works producer Kiyohiko Sakata at their home base in Osaka, Japan. In a two-hour interview, we asked them all we could about Ōkami, the sequel, their partnership, and their respective studios.
Here’s the full Q&A of that interview, which has been lightly edited for clarity:
IGN: Kamiya-san, you’ve talked before about why you left PlatinumGames. You said you were feeling it was going in a different direction from your beliefs as a developer. And you said you wanted to make games that only Hideki Kamiya could make. What beliefs about developing games are important to you and how do you expect them to shape Clovers’?
Hideki Kamiya: It’s a tricky question. In 2023, September, I announced after about 16 years in Platinum that I was leaving. The main reason that I can give was that as I was in Platinum, I wanted to keep going, but I felt that things were moving in a way that I didn’t want it to. But I can’t of course go into details. But I can say for game creation itself, the personality of the game creators is very important and also affects the experience that users feel. And so that’s why the kind of development that I was aiming for in Platinum felt differently than what I was aiming for. And so I wanted to go somewhere where I could do what he wanted.
And from there on out I created Clovers, which wasn’t something that I thought of before leaving Platinum, but after. And so I left Platinum and I got to talking to the people around me, people I knew, and I realized that I wanted to create this game development environment where I could achieve what I wanted.
What defines a Hideki Kamiya game? If I didn’t know you had developed something, how would I look at that game and say, “Ah yes, Hideki Kamiya made this?”
Kamiya: So what is a Hideki Kamiya game? That is not something that I really feel that needs to be said throughout all of my games that I create. ‘This is a Kamiya game.’ It’s not necessary to have that conveyed. I’d rather something that I put effort into is to have the game be unique. So creating a unique experience that the users haven’t felt before. A unique way of enjoying the game is something that I put effort into during the dev process. And this is something that I work hard to convey to users that enjoy my games.
What is the connection between Clovers and Clover Studio, if any? Does the clover, the plant, have a special meaning to you?
Kamiya: So the company name Clovers is something that I wanted to continue on using. Back when I was at Clover, it’s something that I was proud of and wanted to keep on moving on. The name comes from, of course, when Clover was the fourth division of development under Capcom. Of course, the clover leaf is four leaves and that represents the Capcom fourth division of development, and it’s still something that I want to keep going with.
And actually with the name Clover, another way of saying it is C-lover. And the C represents creativity, which the Clovers studio cherishes and we all love creativity. And so we have C [in our logo] four times because it’s a clover with four leaves.
Obviously Capcom is very heavily involved in this. But it sounds like you were thinking about a close relationship with Capcom, maybe even before Ōkami came into the picture when you were first starting Clovers. Is the idea behind the studio Clovers that you will keep that very close relationship with Capcom?
Yoshiaki Hirabayashi: So answering from the Capcom side for this question. So of course we have Kamiya, the director, being the original director of Ōkami. And then from the Capcom side, we always wanted to create an Ōkami sequel at some point because Ōkami, the IP, was something that we all love and we wanted to see it continued. And that’s something that [Capcom producer Jun] Takeuchi also felt.
And so, when we all heard the news that Kamiya left his previous company is when we actually began the talks of this project.
Tell me the story of how this came about. Why Ōkami? Why now? How did this pitch happen? Who convinced who?
Hirabayashi: So this falls back a bit to the answer we gave to the previous question. But for Capcom, we were always looking for the opportunity to create new Ōkami. Of course, for such a project, we needed various preparations to be able to make sure that this all comes true. We needed to have certain key people in place. So if you’re looking for a concrete reason, we were always looking for the opportunity and the opportunity came to us.
Kamiya: For me, I always wanted to create an Ōkami sequel. Thinking back to about 19 years ago when I first created the game, you have to remember that the story itself isn’t really complete, and I always wanted to complete this game. But of course, as I was in Platinum, I couldn’t do that. But even back then, I was often meeting with my friends, specifically with Takeuchi, and going out drinking. And we always talked casually about one day being able to do it. Then I ended up leaving Platinum. So now as a creator, I’ll be able to actually make this come true now with Takeuchi.
Kiyohiko Sakata: So originally, as a Clover Studio person, of course Ōkami was a really important IP for me. And everyone from Clover really thought this. However this time, not precisely from a business perspective, but we all still thought that because all the stars were aligned that this was the best timing for us to move forward with this.
I think that maybe a lot of our readers aren’t as familiar with Machine Head Works. So would you be willing to introduce it a little bit and tell people about what it is, and what you do, and how you’re involved?
Sakata: So Machine Head Works is a very recently created company. I originally based it on M-Two, a company that works very closely with Capcom, working towards branding for users to have our games more known. And that’s why Machine Head Works was created.
But before that it originated from Capcom Division Four. So the same roots as Kamiya had. Yes, those were the same. And we were all sort of kids under Mikami.
The way that Machine Head Works is involved now, working together with Capcom and Clovers, is that of course we have Capcom as the major IP holder of Ōkami, deciding the major direction of the games. And we have Clovers as this development lead for this project. Machine Head Works comes in by having the experience of both working with Capcom previously on several titles, so we know what Capcom needs to create the game. That’s something that Machine Head Works has the experience and knowledge of. We also have the experience of working with Kamiya-san before as well. So we have both experience of Capcom and Clovers, and we’re acting sort of like a bridge between Clovers and Capcom.
In addition to this, we also have the experience of working with the game engine that we are using for this project, RE Engine. So Clovers’ developers haven’t had any experiences with using this engine, but Machine Head Works have experience of using it. So we’re aiding them. Also under us, Machine Head Works, we have people who have actually had experience of working with the original Ōkami game and also will be aiding us with the development of this title.
Hirabayashi: We have Sakata-san and his team, and they actually helped us as well for the PS4 port of Ōkami. So we’re having them with that experience. PS4, the Xbox One, and the Switch version. Of course, they’ve also helped us with even later titles such as Resident Evil 3 and Resident Evil 4, more recent RE Engine games, that they’ve helped us work with.
Why RE Engine? Are there things that you can do with that that will be specifically helpful to the kinds of things you want to do with the Ōkami sequel?
[There is a long pause.]
Hirabayashi: Yes.
[Everyone laughs.]
Hirabayashi: Yes. However, of course we cannot go into much detail at this point in time. But we from Capcom, we believe that without RE Engine at this point we wouldn’t be able to realize Kamiya-san’s artistic dreams for this project.
Kamiya: So RE Engine is of course famous for showing the best of the games that they have. Very, very good expressively. And so we believe people are also expecting and awaiting the RE Engine level of quality now for this game.
I want to go back to something you said earlier. You said that Capcom has wanted to do an Ōkami sequel for a very long time. I think some people might actually find that surprising because it seems that people generally understand that at the time that Ōkami came out it was seen as maybe not doing as well commercially as you might’ve wanted it to. And so, I’m curious why Ōkami has always been so special and has been something that Capcom has been thinking about for this long?
Hirabayashi: So we believe that there are plenty, plenty of Ōkami fans out there within Capcom fans. If you look back, the PS2 game for Ōkami came out almost 20 years ago now, and not going into the concrete sales numbers, there are millions of fans out there that we know. Just go ahead and look into our IR page for Capcom for the million sales titles and you’ll find Ōkami listed under there. So we believe that we have a game that people are awaiting, and we want to create this game for them. Of course, it took a bit of time for all of the stars to align for us to be able to realize this project.
Kamiya: So in the beginning for Clover, we perhaps saw that from a development perspective that it might not reach users in such a wide area as we were planning. But moving on throughout the years, we released later versions that people enjoyed. Since then, we’ve received messages on social media of people enjoying the game, and we’re realizing that people are liking Ōkami a lot.
Now with the announcement at TGA, being there live within the audience and hearing people react there, and not only that, but also seeing people reacting on social channels after, there are so many people waiting for this title. And I was very surprised and happier than I thought I would be to hear people so looking forward to this game.
Even now, I look up the YouTube reactions to the announcements and looking at the people reacting to the video, and I find myself crying with the fans. And I’m just so happy to see that, oh, people are so happy to see this game come true.
Hirabayashi: So coming from my perspective, from the Capcom perspective of this, I know specifically that people are still enjoying this game, just from the numbers. Normally when we look at games, the sales sort of slow down and they decrease steadily. Sometimes they jump up and down, but normally they go down. But for Ōkami, we see that it’s been a steady stream of people always enjoying the game. So in that way Ōkami is a very, very unique IP.
Kamiya: Going back a little bit, but why Ōkami now? Of course leaving Platinum, talking to Capcom, it was an important step in all this. But more than that, just hearing all the cheers from the fans pushed me. Going back to PS2, PS3, PS4, Switch, and then the later versions of the games, we can always see that there’s always merch going out there that the fans like. You can always see the love of the IP is something that’s still spreading amongst fans.
And so, with everyone cheering on and our desire to create, it was that that led us to the actualization of this project. So without everyone’s voices out there, without everyone cheering us on, we wouldn’t have moved forward with this. So thank you so much.
You’ve really assembled what seems to be quite the dream team here of people who just have the perfect set of skills and familiarity to work on this game, specifically. Are there plans to get any of the other former Clover people involved? I read recently, Kamiya-san, there was a former Platinum directors’ drinking party of some sort? I don’t know, were you planning on getting people like [Shinji] Mikami, or [Abebe] Tinari, or [Takahisa] Taura, or any of those people involved in this?
Kamiya: Sakata-san said before, but there are several people who were involved in the original Ōkami project that are involved [in the sequel] via Machine Head Works. Of course, we’re not going to mention any names here now, but there are people who are involved with Ōkami. And the other thing that’s tricky to say or describe properly, but I believe that the team now is even more powered up than it was for the original game. Of course the team back then put their hearts into creating the original Ōkami, but now things have modernized. And we’ve been able to gather several more skilled people now that we all know that’s also leaving Platinum as well. And so I believe now that we have more of a skilled team and more powered up team than we had before.
Kamiya-san, you said something about that in that interview you did with Ikumi Nakamura about wishing you had had a stronger team the first time around. It sounds like you’ve addressed that.
Kamiya: Yes, of course you saw her channel and saw the video where we talked about this. And I wasn’t really planning on diving into that with this subject here. But I mentioned there were a few points that I thought we could have done better with the team back then. Of course, development never goes as you plan it to be, things go wrong, but you always have to cover and fix things as you move along. So there are no guarantees even if we have the stronger team, but I believe that as we have a stronger team now, that there’s a higher chance we can succeed. And we have so many good people gathered that we can create a great team now, but I’m always open to accepting more great people into the team.
Hirabayashi: So there’s three different routes you can choose to enter this project this time. Feel free to pick one of the three routes.
Did any of you replay the first Ōkami sometime recently around the announcement?
Hirabayashi: Unfortunately, I haven’t really had the time to play the game recently, but I did look over the DVD that came with the artbooks and so on that had all the cut things all lined together. And so, that’s what I’ve been checking out.
Kamiya: I didn’t know that DVD really existed.
Sakata: I haven’t played it myself, but the Switch version, my daughter played it recently. And she was in elementary back then, around fourth or fifth year then, and she didn’t really play a lot of games. And because the format is a bit old, usually she doesn’t know where to go and what to do in those games.
But Ōkami is good with leading you and showing you what to do and where to go. So, that’s why I think it’s a really great game.
Hirabayashi: So, same for me as well, the Switch version, once it was done, my daughter, I mean she was a bit younger so she didn’t clear the game, but she always talked about playing the flower blooming game. And myself, I thought of it as a game where I’d take down the evil spirits and so on, but she saw it as this beautiful and inspiring game. That bridged it for me as well, that this is a game that not only adults can enjoy, but also kids can enjoy.
Well, you two have sort of already answered my next question, but if you want to add anything, please do. I was going to ask you all, looking back on the original, what are you most proud of? What do you think stands out as something that the first Ōkami did really well that you want to do really well again in a sequel?
[There is a lengthy pause while Kamiya considers how to answer.]
Kamiya: So, looking back at Ōkami when it was beginning as an original idea, I’m actually from Nagano Prefecture. It’s a very nature-filled area, of course. And then I moved to Osaka to live and work here. But my hometown and my love for it was one of the key factors that made me create the game and made me what I write that experience back then in sort of a positive way.
It’s this spirit that drove me into creating the sequel. And so, what was tricky for me to answer for this question was that the story which fans are waiting for… Ōkami is not just a nice story. There of course are the evils within the story. And as you go along the game, you move along with the story, you move along with the goal that you have within the game, but you have people who perish, or you lose along the way in the story.
And I think that’s why it is an important game as well. These two people, the two guys next to me said that their daughters played it and enjoy the game. I also want various people to play it, and I want people of all ages to be able to enjoy it. Within that, just the beauty of nature and the evils within, and then the story as well is something that I really want people to be able to enjoy for the sequel.
I have a bit of a silly question. Can I show you a picture? Do any of you know the story behind this?
[They all declined to comment]
Since you made the first Ōkami, what do you feel has changed about game development and technology that is going to influence how you approach the sequel?
Sakata: So, with the original Ōkami, of course it came out on PS2. The original concept was to create the soft and hand-drawing style of the game. And that was sort of the visual that the team wanted to show for the game.
But even with the hardware back in the days, that was a tricky thing to achieve. So, this was something that we had a lot of discussions with the development teams going back and forth, and we ended up with certain aspects that we had to drop because of that. And so, with today’s technology, we are able to achieve all of this that we were trying to achieve back in the days and perhaps even greater now, now than what we have the RE Engine as well working with us.
So, things that were great that we gave up on then are now able to achieve, and we’ll hopefully be able to achieve the Kamiya game that we all wanted to achieve then.
Well, speaking of new technologies, do any of you have any opinions on the Nintendo Switch 2?
Hirabayashi: This is something that we really can’t comment on from Capcom side at all, because yeah, it’s about the Nintendo Switch 2. Anything that comes out would come out from Nintendo.
Kamiya: As a personal comment, I personally would love to see the Virtual Console rebooted. That’s something that I would really want to ask Nintendo for.
I know you’re not really saying much about the actual content of the sequel at this time, but I figure I’ll try. Can you say anything about any big themes or ideas or stories that you feel you didn’t get to tell enough in the first Ōkami that you want to explore in this sequel?
Kamiya: I do have a general idea of a big theme and the idea of the story, and it is in my head. It’s been building in my head for several years now, and it’s something that I really want to be able to get my hands on and work and visualize to get to the fans. And I have a detailed idea on how I want this game to turn out.
Hirabayashi: So, one thing that we can say is that this sequel is a continuation of the story that we saw in the original game.
Kamiya: I’m always looking at social channels to see what users are expecting of this sequel.
Our work, of course, is not to create the game that people request of us, to create the exact copy of what people want from us. But we are working hard to achieve a game that achieves the fun that people are expecting of this Ōkami sequel. I have an idea of what I want to create. And I have no plans of throwing away the user’s expectation of the games, but I always want to make the best game possible.
You said that this is a follow-up to the story told in Ōkami. That is Amaterasu in the trailer we saw at the Game Awards, right? Can you confirm that?
Kamiya: I wonder.
[Everyone laughs.]
Hirabayashi: Yes, it is. It is Amaterasu.
What are your feelings about Ōkamiden? Are we going to acknowledge Ōkamiden in this?
Hirabayashi: We know that there are fans out there that like the game, of course. And we also know the feedback on the game out there, of how the story was taken and now how perhaps parts of the story weren’t aligning with what people were expecting. With that, we also have the sequel now that, as we explained before, is a continuation from the story of the original base Ōkami. That’s how we’re going to phrase it.
It can be difficult going back to an older game where the controls to a modern audience may feel out of date, but then again you have fans from the original who might prefer that kind of control method. What is the general outlook on what the control system for this game might look like and what kind of play feel you want to deliver?
Kamiya: As we have just started development for this title, it’s not something that we have dove into very deeply as of yet, but as I have a lot of experience in the game industry as a developer but also as a gamer, I always looked at how things update and develop going forward with these sorts of titles.
And even looking back at the old Ōkami, I can’t even remember all of the control schemes that there were for the game. But you have to remember that what was best back in the day isn’t perhaps best for modern games. So, we always have to look at what’s best for games coming out now.
Of course we won’t ignore everything that we had for Ōkami, but we’ll also look into the controllers, and not only that, but the various ideas that we had for the base game and see what we can improve in depth going forward.
Am I correct in assuming that this sequel is very, very early in development?
Hirabayashi: Yes, we just started this year.
What led you to announce it so very early at the Game Awards last year?
Hirabayashi: Because we wanted to. We were excited. We had Takeuchi-san talking about how we wanted to tell people: ‘Yes, can we? Yes, we can make this game. It’s going to be possible.’ So, we wanted to tell everyone about this.
Kamiya: I was actually relieved that we were able to do this announcement because now it’s not only just a dream and idea. It’s something that is actually becoming true. So, it’s also a promise for the users around the world that yes, we will make this game.
Do you worry that when this inevitably takes some time to make, you’re going to have fans banging down your door, wondering where this game is?
Hirabayashi: So, we understand that emotion, but the team will work as hard as they can to create the game that people are expecting. So, trust us. Trust us in the development team that we will do our best, and we will work towards having the game come out before people start banging on the door a bit too loudly.
Sakata: We will do our best.
Hirabayashi: This is something that we say pretty much for all titles, but of course faster isn’t always the best. We will not give up quality for speed, but do know that we will not drag our feet for this title. It’s something that we will put our efforts into.
Kamiya: There might be people out there who think bad of us, but we will put our heads down and really work hard on this now. So, stand by and wait for what we have coming up next.
There’s a video you can view when you finish Ōkami that is, I think, a prototype of the game that you all worked on, that’s Amaterasu running, and trees springing up behind her. Was that at all the inspiration for the Ōkami sequel teaser? Was there any connection?
Sakata: We didn’t really have that as a direct inspiration when creating this, but I’ve seen videos online where people are sort of comparing both videos, but it perhaps just brings it back that we are following the original game idea, and that’s why they sort of ended up being very similar in the end.
Hirabayashi: The background music in that trailer was something that was inspired by the original game and something that we saw that users actually catch onto when seeing the announcement, that it was the Ōkami sequel that they were seeing.
Kamiya: The song itself is a very popular song that you might know from the original game and the original composer, [Rei] Kondoh, and he actually was the creator of the song now for the trailer as well. And so, with that we have the sort of original spirit of him living on now with this trailer.
I would love to hear an answer from each of you, but I want to know what is inspiring you right now or what you’re really enjoying. What other video games are you playing, what books are you reading, movies, music, what things do you just generally enjoy right now?
Kamiya: What’s having a really big input in my work right now is the Takarazuka stage shows. That is something that I really like, and it’s based off of three major groups right now, the Hana, Sora and Tsuki groups. And I prefer the Hana group right now, and I always try to go see them when they’re performing. They are a group of several women who play both men and women, and they’re very unique and a popular sort of stage performance here in Japan.
One thing that I like specifically about them is the stage settings and what they do on stage itself. Looking at other media like games and movies, you have a lot of CG, and you have the ability to cut between scenes how you like. But when you have a stage performance, you’re not able to do that, you can’t use CG. You cannot cut to another scene or another camera. So, it’s interesting to see how they solve that by showing off what they want to do and between different scenes and on stage. That really inspires me, and it’s something that I bring back when creating games.
Sakata: Kamiya-san described how he likes stage performances with Takarazuka. I also like that, but more with the Gekidan Shiki and smaller groups with about five to six people performing. I also like the realistic live feeling that you get when you see the actors performing in front of you and how they’re able to act and show the scene that they are performing. Sometimes they make small mistakes on stage, but that’s part of the act and part of the show that you’re there to feel and experience. This live feeling and being close to the stage is something that I really, really like.
Then when I take that back to games, it’s important for us to not create a game that dictates a certain way that we want people to enjoy the game, but we want to create something that users can experience and choose how they enjoy.
Kamiya: Stage performances are something that’s really different. Even going to the same show over and over again, you might experience something different every time. And that’s something that also relates to games and how it’s different every time you play it.
Hirabayashi: Different from the other two people here, I am really inspired by movies lately. I’ve been recommended to see the latest Gundam movie called Gundam GQuuuuuuX. It really brings several people’s perspectives and their realistic views, and you can see how the different expectations build up in this movie. You can see how watching the movie gives a different feel, depending on who it is that watches this. Just the emotions put into this movie is something that I really admire as a creator.
Kamiya: This movie was something that I got recommended today by my subordinates as well.
Hirabayashi: You can really see the passion of the creator in this movie.
Sakata: I haven’t seen it yet, but the challenge that is required to make something like this is something that I admire.
What does success for the Ōkami sequel look like to you all?
Hirabayashi: So, rather than commenting from Capcom’s perspective, I would answer this personally. But I would want to see something that fans were able to enjoy, to go above the expectations of what they’re looking forward to in this game.
Kamiya: This might only be something for Ōkami, but personally for me, success might not be the right word, but if it’s something that I personally like, personally would enjoy, then I feel like the project has succeeded. Of course that might not always align with users or the fans, but having it align with the best scenario, that’s something that we’re aiming for.
That’s the goal that we’re aiming for, just having it be something people enjoy. Once the game is something I can be proud of, then I feel like the project is successful.
Sakata: Talking success, it’s always tricky to pin down what describes that. If I’m happy with the game, then it’s successful. Or if it sells a lot, then it’s successful. But from the creative perspective, it’s always an important successful point when people play the game and they enjoy it. Especially for this title as well, to not only have people who are literate gamers, but people who are new to gaming also be able to enjoy the game itself.
But coming from the Machine Head Works perspective, as we are involved with this project, and Kamiya-san as the director, has said that when he’s happy with the project, he feels that it’s successful. Well, Machine Head Works’ goal is to have the director’s goal achieved. So, that would be the Machine Head Works way of saying that it’s successful.
I asked about the success of Ōkami, but now I want to ask about the success of your respective studios. Kamiya-san and Sakata-san are building these newer studios that have branched off of Capcom, and so 10 years from now, what would you need to feel that you were doing well, that you had accomplished your mission? Do you imagine you might someday end up back under Capcom? Do you continue this partnership or keep working on more games with them? Or do you eventually develop your own IP? What does that look like?
Sakata: So, in 10 years I don’t have really a concrete goal for Machine Head Works as it is for now. Both Kamiya and I, as people in charge of the company, we’re close to pension. As creators, I think we both would still want to keep on working on games, but then the goal would of course have the company continue to create games even 10 years from now. So, that’s something that I would want to work towards rather than having X amount of people working for the company or creating X sort of game.
Kamiya: Clovers’ future plan, seeing that we just started, basically from this year, first of all, we still need to gather and increase more people working under us and gather people of the same spirit under Clovers. That’s my dream going forward, to have people that I can collaborate with working here and aligning with everyone that works here.
For Clovers, it’s not specifically to work on a specific game. I’d rather have people that I can personally align with and collaborate with under the same roof. And that’s the goal that I’m looking for.
All three requested the opportunity to close by delivering one final message directly to the fans:
Hirabayashi: This is just a message to everyone who saw the trailer that was announced last year about the project that we are now working very hard to realize. It might take a little bit of time before we might talk again, but please wait while we’re able to realize our dream of creating Ōkami the sequel.
Sakata: It might be some time before we get to meet each other again. But do know that this project is made by staff who love this series, still love this IP, and they’re working very, very hard to create it. And we’re working our hardest to make something that aligns with everyone’s expectations.
Kamiya: First of all, this project is something that I really wanted to create personally, but if it wasn’t for everyone’s cheers, then we wouldn’t be able to move forward with this. So, first of all, I would like to thank you, everyone. Lift of my heart, thank you. Not only due to the fans, but also Capcom and Machine Head Works, due to all of their support that I am able to achieve this. So, I will continue to treasure this collaboration in creating this title that we hope that everyone will be able to enjoy. Please, look forward to this project. Thank you.
Hirabayashi: Your comment is a bit too perfect. Is that really you speaking now?
Kamiya: [laughing] No, no, no, really, I’m just so grateful for everyone.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.
