According to Japanese comedian Hidetaka Kano, legendary ex-Capcom director Shinji Mikami, who directed both Resident Evil and Resident Evil 4, believes that if viewers on streaming platforms are merely \u201csatisfied\u201d with watching a playthrough of a game, then said game was not \u201cthat good of a game\u201d to begin with.<\/p>\n
As spotted by Nikkan<\/a> (via Automaton<\/a>), Kano relayed a conversation he had with Mikami during a TV interview on June 18. According to the comedian, he asked the Resident Evil director about his opinion on players streaming his games online, as Kano was nervous about this practice \u201crevealing the content\u201d of said games and spoiling them for those who hadn\u2019t played them.<\/p>\n \u201cIf viewers watch a playthrough of a game all the way to the end and are satisfied with just that, then it was only that good of a game,\u201d Mikami reportedly replied. \u201cOur job is to make games that leave people wanting to clear them with their own hands, even if they\u2019ve watched someone else do it, so keep streaming.\u201d<\/p>\n Apparently, Mikami isn\u2019t the only famous Japanese video game creator who believes this, as Kano stated that Yuji Horii, the creator of the Dragon Quest series, \u201csaid exactly the same thing\u201d to him during a similar conversation.<\/p>\n