Its relatively unsurprising for those who've ever paid attention to the guy's online presence at all. To paraphrase: He's basically been saying that the controversy was overblown, and hopes that the game sells well (and is glad that it seems to be in his eyes) and blocking anyone who criticizes him after mocking them.
https://xcancel.com/HidekiKamiya_X/status/1904004933902622814#m
What I find funny is that he's trying to say that "normal people don't care about the controversy" and speak for them... while having over 250k tweets on his Twitter account.
There's nothing to defend about the game. Even if you think the controversy is overblown, its still a steaming pile of boring garbage as a product that continues Ubisoft's cancerous trends of anti-consumer garbage. Hoping such a product "does well" is pathetic on his part.
In my personal opinion: Dude's a hack, sellout and a loud sperg who blocks everyone he sees (this has been a thing he's done for at least a decade now). He sold PlatinumGames out to the chinks and then he abandoned it after they obviously started failing afterwards. Maybe he's hoping for some funding in the future from the west with how big of a westaboo he is, that's my only guess because there's no real reason to defend Ubisoft here.
First question: who is he again? I really can't remember how relevant he is in the gaming community or if this is just 'I'm Japanese so I give Ubisoft the yellow pass'.
He's a pretty notable game developer (or at least he used to be).
Creator of Bayonetta, Viewful Joe, Wonderful 101 and made the first Devil May Cry game.
Ah ok, so was he one of those guys that was always left leaning but unfortunately got stuck with the retarded herd than leave like others did.
Or has he had some kind of scandal so is virtue signalling to cover for it?
I don't really know, but I wouldn't be surprised about it if he was (especially after these tweets). I just subscribe to the idea of him being a massive retard sperg personally.
I don't recall him ever specifically espousing anything leftist in the past, though he was the type to go around blocking people like crazy. He's also a massive westaboo, perhaps one of the most among Japanese game devs.
That blocking like crazy sounds like a red flag to me as I usually oy block trolls (spammers, provocateurs etc). It's hard to judge based on leftist viewpoints, what's more telling is if they retain the same group no matter what. Look at someone like Dave Rubin, he was part of the Young Turks but when he left that group he turned into a conservative, being beholden to the group mindset can lead to retarded takes like justifying a black samurai in feudal Japan.
Aren't he the one that said he hate Rebecca in Resident Evil because she was not bitchy enough?
Also directed my favorite Resident Evil game, the second one.
Sucks, Sucked, Sucks, DMC was ok.