>>721116379
then why didn't they?
people like kamiya, itsuno, shinji mikami and kojima have undoubtedly overly romanticized the role and influence of a director on a videogame, which was the style at the time since having a "rockstar director" was considered a marketing boon (kind of like how people go to see movies just because a certain director or writer is involved, like tarantino or martin scorsese) in the ps2/ps3 days
however, they STILL are the ones with final say on everything that gets included in the game itself, they're essentially filters to unify the work of the development team under one cohesive vision, which is why every game that these people make all have certain qualities that identify the games as works of that particular director
in the case of itsuno, he was the only proponent for keeping the DMC brand alive at capcom's corporate level after 2, and you saw what happened when he stopped getting involved
