Once he joined the Rising team, his first assignment was to design Raiden’s rival, Sam. Like other fans, Yoshimura collects Shinkawa’s art books. Yoshimura, as it would turn out, was a Metal Gear fan and an admirer of series illustrator, Yoji Shinkawa, and his work. Before I knew it, my last three days at Platinum turned into over half a year.” ‘You cannot put this in a Metal Gear game!’ I told him. Immediately, I slammed my fist on the director’s table. He continues: “Then I saw their designs-the art style could not have been further from the Metal Gear universe. “Three days before I was about to leave Platinum to go freelance, without much left to do, I strolled over to the nearby Rising team to see if they needed any help,” Yoshimura recalls in a development blog post. However, instead of leaving as planned, Yoshimura ended up working on Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. He was switching from being a full-time Platinum employee to going freelance, and his official date of resignation was just three days away. Kenichirou Yoshimura, a former designer at PlatinumGames, was on his way out of the company.

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