Golden Hour: New Video of Shinji Mikami and Keiichiro Toyama Released on YouTube
We have released a new video on YouTube, in which we invited Resident Evil Creator Shinji Mikami to our office to share conversation with our own Creative Director, Keiichiro Toyama.
From their early days of entering the gaming industry in Japan, when 3D games were only becoming to be the main trend, to creating Resident Evil/Silent Hill, the two creators share insightful dialogue in how they came to create the two iconic games. Toyama shares how inspirational Resident Evil was at the time and describes Mikami as his ‘mentor he never learned directly from’. The two creators also reminisce how they rose through the industry and Mikami reveals his difficult position at times, when he worked dually as director and producer on the Resident Evil series.
“Golden Hour” refers to a particular time at sundown and sunrise, when the sun shines in golden color for only a precious amount of time. This video, shot at Bokeh Game Studio’s office bar, also proves to be a precious moment where creators of what is arguably the two most iconic horror franchises of all time share a drink. Mikami certainly shows his colors with unique metaphors such as describing his time working on Resident Evil as a “prison where you could freely make games”, and how he will only make a horror game again if “ideas come upon me like an eyelash”.
We will be working on this Golden Hour as an ongoing series, and plan to invite many established figures from the gaming industry(and beyond) in Japan. Note that “Ghostwire: Tokyo” has been released by Tango Gameworks just last week.