Now that Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya is working with Capcom again, the frequently outspoken developer says he'd "love" to fully remake the original game. Kamiya is currently making a sequel to his classic 2006 title Okami with his newly formed development studio Clovers for Capcom, and it sounds like Kamiya wants to take advantage of his creative reunion with the publisher. But if he were to make a new version of Devil May Cry, which released in 2001, it would play very differently with modern game technology and sensibilities.
Kamiya stated this desire in a video on his YouTube channel (via VGC). Answering a question about whether he'd want to revisit the original game, Kamiya said, "As for a Devil May Cry remake, of course I’d love to do that, of course I’d love to do that." He elaborated that he usually doesn't play his own games, but occasionally watching clips of the original DMC made him think about its now-outdated gameplay design 24 years after its release.
"With today’s technology and game design approach, of course, I’d want to remake it from the ground up," said Kamiya. He expressed that no such remake was in the...
