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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kamiya here. Lately I’ve been listening to the Bayonetta soundtrack while working, but whenever I listen to the music from the latter half of the game, I have some sort of conditioned response to remember being in a nice warm bath, staring back at downtown Osaka (Umeda). It doesn’t leave me in a good mood. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=platinumgames.com&amp;blog=6054675&amp;post=2283&amp;subd=platinumgames&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing (A Bit Early) a collection of Bayonetta Design Artifacts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mari Shimazaki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone. Character designer Mari Shimazaki here with some good news.

It has been something like two months since Bayonetta saw release in Japan. For those of you still playing Bayonetta, or those of you taking a little break, we’ve still got more Bayonetta to give you, so stay with us just a bit longer.

Which brings me to today’s announcement.

As Hashimoto-san mentioned on the Xbox Live Park broadcast here in Japan, we are going to put out a book collecting the design materials we used for Bayonetta. Woohoo!

It will be a little while until it’s released, but here are the details:

<blockquote>Bayonetta Design Collection (Temporary Title)
Release Date: Q1 2010 (Planned)
Price: TBD
Publisher: Enterbrain</blockquote>

It’s going to be a really thick book, as we are going to include almost all of the images we’ve used in promoting Bayonetta! (We were unable to get rights clearances for a few of them…)

Japanese gamers will get a chance to see art that we’ve only released in the West (which there were quite a few we made behind the scenes), as well as peeks at unreleased character, enemy, background, and weapon designs. There will also be CG illustrations and some new easter-egg illustrations (that I’m working on right now) amongst others. Overall, there will be more than 500 pieces of content to sink your teeth into! There will also be tons of comments from the development team (which they are working on now) to round out this monster collection! Look forward to it!

Whenever I end up working on one of these expansive books, I always end up feeling like, “This is sad. I have to show off all of these designs that got shot down… And they are from years ago as well.”
Even though I love looking at others people’s stuff… this poses a real dilemna for me.

Well, enough of my grumbling, I’m going to stay focused on working on the book for now, and even though it will be a while until it is in your hands, I hope you all look forward to it.

Well, I guess the world is all wrapped up in Christmas colors now.

How did you all spend the Christmas holidays? December 25 was actually our last work day here at PlatinumGames, but I am sure plenty of us went out drinking after we wrapped up.

Until next time.

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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mari Shimazaki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello all. Character designer Mari Shimazaki reporting in. We are now less than one week away from the Japanese release of Bayonetta. When the game comes out, I’m really excited about going to a huge store close-by and spreading out all the copies of the game! (A bit of a nuisance to the staff though&#8230;) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=platinumgames.com&amp;blog=6054675&amp;post=1938&amp;subd=platinumgames&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone. If you don’t remember me, I am Kai, an animator here at PlatinumGames. I haven’t blogged here since May, but I recently had the opportunity to check out the 2009 Tokyo Game Show, so I thought I would tell you about my experience. I was actually at the show for 3 days, from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=platinumgames.com&amp;blog=6054675&amp;post=1898&amp;subd=platinumgames&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mari Shimazaki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone. Character designer Mari Shimazaki here. Tomorrow is the opening of Tokyo Game Show 2009 to the general public. I’m sure by the time this is posted, we will already be on the show floor getting ready for your arrival. Make sure to come visit us! We’ve even got a little souvenir to give [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=platinumgames.com&amp;blog=6054675&amp;post=1862&amp;subd=platinumgames&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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