Elden Ring Game Director Hidetaka Miyazaki Insists His Knowledge of Games is Superficial
FromSoftware studio has been delighting fans of hardcore projects for many years with games like Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring. However, game director Hidetaka Miyazaki remains a very humble person after the success of his projects.
Recently, Tekken franchise creator Katsuhiro Harada shared his impressions of Miyazaki on social media and noted that his career path is unique:
From my perspective, Miyazaki is a rather unique, yet extremely serious game developer. His career didn't start in the game industry. Moreover, he became a developer almost at the age of thirty. […] Even among developers of my generation (those born in the 1970s), I find it remarkable that a person who wasn't a video game developer at the dawn of the polygonal graphics era eventually became one of Japan's most iconic game creators. In other words, compared to the rest of our generation — including myself — his career path is exceptionally unusual. In particular, unlike many of us, he didn't work at one of the major studios that had a significant technological advantage at the beginning of the polygon era. This, perhaps, is what makes his path so unique.
Harada shared a story about how he once gave Miyazaki the VR game Summer Lesson to try. While everyone was chatting happily, Miyazaki played "with incredible seriousness," and when everyone finished and started discussing their impressions, he "fell silent, staring intently at the monitor, lost in thought."
When he was called and asked what he was thinking about, Miyazaki unexpectedly smiled and replied: "Oh... I was completely immersed in thinking about what I would do if I were creating this, and what kind of game I would develop."
Harada also explained why Miyazaki doesn't often give video interviews — he doesn't like "watching himself in motion on video," and he still considers his knowledge of games "superficial."
According to him, there are naturally many people in this industry who understand games much better than he does. When he listens to such people, he realizes that his own understanding is still superficial, and he feels that he is not yet in a position to discuss games himself.
Harada himself is very surprised that even a person like Miyazaki believes he still has much to learn before reaching a level where he can "discuss games."
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