>>717480047
>No Mitsoda
There are some rumours that he was cheating on his wife and got caught, which led to his whole personal life falling apart basically. He became erratic in the office, throwing chairs around, short temper, etc. Stopped showing up, constantly missing meetings or going ghost and being unreachable for days, etc. That, and the whole hardsuit studio fcking up the project caused Paradox to fire him and scrap the whole thing before chinese room contacted them with an offer to cobble smth together. Idk it might be bullshit but those were the rumours on the RPGcodex back in the day, with some sources claiming to have insider information etc. Also Mitsoda and his wife suddenly stopped interacting on social media at some point during developpement, and later separated a few months after VTMB2 was revealed (after 10 years of happy marriage). Even more surprising is that she completely wiped any mention of his name from her online presence (her Linkedin, her twt, etc) as if she was never married to him.
It makes sense to me desu. It would explain all the hush-hush and circling of the wagons from everyone associated with the game. its a sensitive subject and I understand them not wanting to air their coworker's dirty laundry for millions to see and comment on. The internet would be very cruel to him, no doubt.