Hideki Kamiya

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Hideki Kamiya (神谷英樹, Kamiya Hideki^?) is a video game designer formerly employed by Capcom and Clover Studio, and now working with former Clover Studio members at Seeds (developer)|Seeds^[1], now known as Platinum Games. He is best known as the creator of Devil May Cry and Viewtiful Joe. His first directorial work was Resident Evil 2 (although he was credited in the original Resident Evil as a planner), before working on those two games. While both of Kamiya's original creations were successful enough to inspire their own franchises, he did not work on any of their sequels. He also provided the Japanese voice of Godot in Gyakuten Saiban 3. The PS2 and Wii action game Ōkami was directed by Kamiya.

In May 2008, Platinum Games announced a 3 game deal with Sega. Included in the deal is a game called Bayonetta, an original game by Kamiya. Described as a "stylish action game" involving "a witch battling angels", the main character does battle with guns on her feet.^[2]