Katamari Damacy designer Keita Takahashi wasn’t happy at Namco Bandai. When leaving the company, he called it “so-so”. His reasons are a bit more melancholy than that.
https://kotaku.com/katamari-damacy-designer-leaves-namco-bandai-calls-it-5632502
“The reason why I quit Namco was because I started to feel like I didn’t belong there any more,” Takahashi recently told website Eurogamer. Takahashi’s games, he noted, “were not the best-selling ones”, and he also realized that “Namco was, as a business, going down a bit”.
Couple that with the fact his colleagues were moving on to other projects, and you have a guy that doesn’t feel like he belongs anymore.
His new company, uvula, is a start-up with his wife and should counter any pangs of alienation Japanese corporate culture causes.
https://kotaku.com/katamari-creator-has-a-new-company-still-making-games-5654698
Keita Takahashi: Why I left Namco News [Eurogamer] [Pic]
