Long-Time SMT Series 'Demon Artist', Kazuma Kaneko, Departs Atlus | Push Square
Kazuma Kaneko, whose career as a character designer at legendary JRPG studio Atlus has spanned almost four decades, has officially left the company. Kaneko has joined COLOPL, a developer and publisher headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, where he will work on a new IP.
News comes to us through a creator interview with Kaneko himself (thanks, Gematsu). Here, it was revealed that this mysterious new game would depict a worldview created by the artist and that the «game experience» would incorporate the latest technology.
Kaneko, who is often referred to as the series' «demon artist» (thanks, PSU), has also done freelance work for other Japanese developers like Capcom and Konami, having worked on games like Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening and Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner Mars. His most recent works include Persona 3 Reload, Soul Hackers 2, and Shin Megami Tensei V; his contributions will undoubtedly be sorely missed.
Final Fantazio
What do you think of Kaneko's departure? Are you excited by the prospect of the new IP the artist is working on? Let us know in the comments section below.
Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
«new game would depict a worldview created by the artist and that the „game experience“ would incorporate the latest technology»
I read this as they left when Altus decided that the game will use AI generated art.
Mara will always be the greatest monster ever created for a game
@Burntbreadman oh god that would be such an Atlus thing to do.
@Burntbreadman That does sound like Atlus the king of cutting corners and I also read it like that.
@Burntbreadman That seems a really weird way to parse it since that expression, at least
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