It’s impossible to separate Tango Gameworks from Shinji Mikami. The Tokyo-based studio employs legions of developers, but the Resident Evil co-creator is still firmly recognisable as the face of Tango Gameworks, well over a decade after departing Capcom to found the studio.
You’d think it’d be natural for the director of games like God Hand, Vanquish and Dino Crisis to take the reins once again at a new studio, especially with around two decades worth of directing experience under his belt. But this simply wasn’t the case. “I started Tango with the vision of creating a studio that gives young and talented creators a chance,” Mikami tells VG247.
Mikami explains that Tango’s primary goal was to – specifically – make games from the “outstanding talent of young creators.” Yet, Mikami would end up directing Tango’s debut game with The Evil Within arriving in 2014, a survival horror game combining the inventory management of classic Resident Evil games with grotesque monsters and adrenaline-pumping boss fights.
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