#Game where you play as a dragon series

Again, that boyish smile: “there's something very special about them.”Ĭoncept art from Scalebound. “There’s a level of intelligence to dragons to the point where they’re almost godlike,” he says. Still a strong, majestic beast, then, but one that fits a young Kamiya’s vision of what a dragon could be. ““Scalebound is Platinum’s first action RPG,” says Scalebound’s Creative Producer Jean Pierre Kellams, “so we’re making a game that brings all of our core competencies in action gameplay to the RPG genre and placing it in a very large non-linear world.” The spice Platinum is adding to this formula to make it truly unique is Thuban, a “dragon who is bonded to you,” and who behaves as an independent creature alongside Drew, rather than a strictly responsive vessel for your button prompts.

#Game where you play as a dragon series

I’ve always wanted to create a game where the dragons were the main subject matter.” Kamiya is finally realising his dream in Scalebound, a game where a dragon is not a beast to be defeated, but a companion for your human character, Drew, to fight beside.The focus on a central duo is one in a series of firsts for Kamiya and his studio Platinum, which is side-stepping its distinctive combo-focused action style to build a sprawling, colourful action RPG under first time collaborator Microsoft. So even though I fell in love with them, there were these limitations in terms of my interactions with them. But dragons aren’t just strong,” he says, “they’re beautiful. “As soon as I was introduced to a lot of these fantasy settings and worlds there was something particularly striking about dragons. But their depiction in popular culture as fiendish monsters - prizes to take down with an earth-shaking thud - hasn’t always sat comfortably with Kamiya. They’ve appeared in various guises throughout his games, from the griffin in the original Devil May Cry to the dragons in 2009’s Bayonetta and 2013’s The Wonderful 101. Dragons (and other giant beasts) have roamed the fertile fields of Kamiya’s mind since he started his career proper at Capcom in 1994.