Resident Ev𒉰il 4 celebrates its 20th anniversary this month, and you can honor the slimy shooter by playing it on ﷽PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac, iPhone, or on your friend's brother's girlfriend's iPad… just don't tell series creator Shinji Mikami, who once threatened to slice himself open if the game ever left GameCube.
"Biohazard 4 will definitely release only on the GameCube," Mikami told the Japanese magazine Hyper Capcom Special , . "Not ✤on another console. If it [is ported elsewhere], I will commit seppuk൩u."
Seppuku, or hara-kiri: a samurai's ritual suicide by forcing a short blade across and up the stomach, death by disembowelme𒉰nt. It's a grisly commitment to one's honor, albeit a melodramatic sacrifice for the company that made Mario Kart Double Dash.
Later, with Resident Evil 4 producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi. What about the PS2, which had more horror games than just Luigi's Mansion?🐲 Surely Resident Evil 4 would make it to that console.
"Definitely not. Definitely not," Kobayashi said, channeling Mikami's gritted teeth loyalty. "It's a GameCube exclusive." A few months after his interview, publisher Capcom announced that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil 4 was getting a PS2 port.
So Mikami left Capcom in 2006, one year after Resident Evil 4 came out, and he eventually founded 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Tango Gameworks in 2010. While searching for developers for the new studio, Mikami updated his website with that let potential employees use a samurai (who appeared to be Killer7 developer Goichi Suda) to chop off what seemed to be Mikami's head. It dutifully scre꧃amed Tango recruitment phrases as his skull tumbled through 🧸the sky.
At least the game was a more healthy outlet for Mikami's GameCube disapp✃ointment. And it, along with time passing, appears to have worked magic. Now, Mikami is totally healed from the wound to his pride – he in 2023, writing on Twitter that he "enjoyed it very much." It certainly beats cutting open an artery.
Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about hor🦋ror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.
