Devil May Cry 5‘s director says that he learned a lot from Ninja Theory (the developers of DmC: Devil May Cry, who are now under Microsoft’s ownership).

Itsuno was interviewed by GameInformer, and he expressed his appreciation towards Ninja Theory: „We learned so much from Ninja Theory and DmC. That was a collaboration between Capcom and Ninja Theory. I went to Cambridge once every couple of months to work with those guys. So we learned a lot from them, and you want to talk about stylish… Ninja Theory, those guys are style incarnate, man. What they did with DmC, that art style, those animations, that is real style, you know? So we took a lot of what we learned from that.

Even stuff like the kill cams, for instance, we took a lot of that and had learned that we tried to implement that in this game as well. Another thing is, we have a lot of friends who love DmC. For me, DmC is one of my favourite DMC games, if not my favourite. And we wanted to make the game in a way that people who enjoyed that game will appreciate the way it controls just as much as they enjoyed DmC.”

Itsuno would like to work with Ninja Theory again, but it’s probably Microsoft who says the final word, and even if they said yes, that’d probably mean that the PlayStation is out of luck. Devil May Cry 5 is launching on March 8 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

Source: WCCFTech