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2 | [[caption-width-right:350: The Man behind Franchise/ResidentEvil.]] |
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4 | Shinji Mikami (born August 11, 1965) is one of the oldest and most well known video game producers, perhaps best known for the creation of ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''. He also made ''VideoGame/GodHand'', and helped create Creator/CloverStudio with the help of Creator/HidekiKamiya (of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'', ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'', ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' fame) and Atsushi Inaba (who helped out on a bunch of other works, and helped out with ''VideoGame/MadWorld''), now known as Creator/PlatinumGames. Originally a Creator/{{Capcom}} member (one of the oldest, actually), he then went to Creator/{{Sega}} with the rest of his fellow Clover members at Platinum Games. He completed ''VideoGame/{{Vanquish}}'' and worked with Creator/Suda51 and Music/AkiraYamaoka on a comedy-horror game titled ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheDamned''. |
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6 | In 2010 he founded [[http://tangogameworks.com/ Tango Gameworks]], a subsidiary of [=ZeniMax=] Media (the same parent company as Creator/IdSoftware and Creator/{{Bethesda}}) along with longtime Creator/Suda51 collaborator Music/MasafumiTakada. He would eventually depart the company in 2023. |
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8 | In 2015, he voiced Takahashi from ''VideoGame/Fallout4''. |
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10 | His official English-language twitter is [[http://twitter.com/#!/shinji_mikami_e here,]] while his company's twitter is [[http://twitter.com/#!/tango_gw_en here.]] |
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12 | !!List of game titles Mikami has worked on as director or producer: |
13 | [[index]] |
14 | * ''VideoGame/WhoFramedRogerRabbit?'' (Game Boy version) -- The first game he ever worked on. |
15 | * ''VideoGame/{{Aladdin|Capcom}}'' (SNES version) |
16 | * ''VideoGame/GoofTroop'' |
17 | * ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series |
18 | ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' (directed both, the original PS version and the GC remake) |
19 | ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' (team producer) |
20 | ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' (producer) |
21 | ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'' (producer) |
22 | ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'' (executive adviser) |
23 | ** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' (director) |
24 | * ''VideoGame/DinoCrisis'' (director) |
25 | * ''VideoGame/OnimushaWarlords'' (adviser) |
26 | * ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' (executive producer) |
27 | * ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' series (worked as an executive producer on the original GBA trilogy) |
28 | * ''VideoGame/SteelBattalion'' (general producer) |
29 | * ''Videogame/PN03'' (director) |
30 | * ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'' (executive producer) |
31 | * ''VideoGame/Killer7'' (executive producer, also co-wrote the story with Creator/Suda51) |
32 | * ''VideoGame/GodHand'' (director) |
33 | * ''VideoGame/{{Vanquish}}'' (director) - His first work after departing from Capcom. |
34 | * ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheDamned'' (creative producer) |
35 | * ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'' (director) |
36 | ** ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin2'' (producer) |
37 | * ''VideoGame/GhostwireTokyo'' (producer) |
38 | * ''VideoGame/HiFiRush'' (executive producer) |
39 | [[/index]] |
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41 | !!His works frequently contain examples of the following: |
42 | * CreatorBacklash: |
43 | ** He loathes being called the father of ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', a title he feels more accurately belongs to Tokuro Fujiwara, the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 first game]]'s producer. |
44 | ** While he has an overall positive opinion of his ''Aladdin'' game, he admitted years later that he thought [[VideoGame/AladdinVirginGames the Virgin Games version]] was a superior game to his own in every way, outside of the soundtrack. |
45 | * DisownedAdaptation: He quit Capcom after they ported ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' for the [=PS2=] without his permission, wanting it to be a Platform/NintendoGameCube exclusive.[[note]](Don't let the fact that a "Shinji Mikami" is credited as a designer on ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'' fool you; it's just someone with the same name)[[/note]] |
46 | * SelfDeprecation[=/=]BlackComedy: If [[http://tangogameworks.com/others/comic/001 these comics]] were written by him |
47 | * ZombieApocalypse: To the point where his company's comics and artwork frequently portray the staff members as zombies |
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