I've been digging up more about REmake 2, hunting details and pieces of information that got lost with time (or people didn't cared to read at the time), and i found out a little bit more about the third director behind the project (Hirabayashi confirmed that were three people working on it: himself, Anpo and someone that was not revealed to us even now, one year later).
There's nothing conclusive, but it gives us a good idea of who's working with them behind the curtains:
Kazunori Kadoi was a designer in the first Resident Evil, but later he joined another team while working as a "stage planner" on Code Veronica. Talking about more recent works, he touched on Outbreak directing two specific cutscenes called "flashback" and "end of the road" that were shown on different scenarios, but he also managed to work as a character design on the same production. Later, on RE5, he became a lead designer and played a similar role on Resi 6. Apparently his last job within the franchise was somehow attached to Revelations 2, which is good to hear because he worked close with Yasuhiro Anpo on that development team, making the team synergy better knowing that almost everyone in higher positions behind REmake 2, worked together before and know each other well.
That's all speculation at this point, but master Kamiya gave us a hint to look upon and that's were it leads to.
I'm a little bit more confident about this project thinking about this. I just got back from playing Code Veronica and i'm really impressed with that game, even without knowing how much of Kadoi's influence it really has. I hope that's the case, without Kamiya helping "directly", it's always reassuring to think that someone like Kazunori is looking upon REmake 2. Maybe most of you knew already about this, but i think it's important to keep people informed about this stuff. It helps to keep the expectations in check and know what to expect in the near future, at least until we have official information from Capcom.
Source: Original Resident Evil 2 director says he pestered Capcom for a remake - interview by Polygon
There's nothing conclusive, but it gives us a good idea of who's working with them behind the curtains:
Kazunori Kadoi was a designer in the first Resident Evil, but later he joined another team while working as a "stage planner" on Code Veronica. Talking about more recent works, he touched on Outbreak directing two specific cutscenes called "flashback" and "end of the road" that were shown on different scenarios, but he also managed to work as a character design on the same production. Later, on RE5, he became a lead designer and played a similar role on Resi 6. Apparently his last job within the franchise was somehow attached to Revelations 2, which is good to hear because he worked close with Yasuhiro Anpo on that development team, making the team synergy better knowing that almost everyone in higher positions behind REmake 2, worked together before and know each other well.
That's all speculation at this point, but master Kamiya gave us a hint to look upon and that's were it leads to.
I'm a little bit more confident about this project thinking about this. I just got back from playing Code Veronica and i'm really impressed with that game, even without knowing how much of Kadoi's influence it really has. I hope that's the case, without Kamiya helping "directly", it's always reassuring to think that someone like Kazunori is looking upon REmake 2. Maybe most of you knew already about this, but i think it's important to keep people informed about this stuff. It helps to keep the expectations in check and know what to expect in the near future, at least until we have official information from Capcom.
Source: Original Resident Evil 2 director says he pestered Capcom for a remake - interview by Polygon
