There were no story or setting connections to FromSoftware's previous games, even though Miyazaki conceded that it carried the "DNA" of Demon's Souls and its specific level design. Miyazaki asked about the possibility of developing a game for eighth-generation consoles, and the concept of Bloodborne developed from there.
Īfter the release of the Prepare to Die edition of Dark Souls in August 2012, Sony Computer Entertainment approached FromSoftware concerning cooperative development on a new title. In Japan it was unprecedented for a person to change career and become company president within 10 years. After the release and success of the game's spiritual successor Dark Souls in 2011, Miyazaki was promoted to the position of company president in May 2014. Best of all, if my ideas failed, nobody would care – it was already a failure." Although the game was received negatively at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show and sold far under expectations upon release, it began to pick up after a few months and soon found publishers willing to release the title outside of Japan. The project, up until Miyazaki was assigned to it, was considered a failure by the company, with Miyazaki stating "I figured if I could find a way to take control of the game, I could turn it into anything I wanted. Upon learning about what later became Demon's Souls, Miyazaki became excited at the prospect of a fantasy action role-playing game and offered to help. Miyazaki later directed Armored Core 4 and its direct sequel, Armored Core: For Answer. At age 29 however, Miyazaki found that few game companies would employ him, with one of the few being FromSoftware, where Miyazaki began working as a game planner on Armored Core: Last Raven in 2004, joining the game's development halfway through. Upon a friend's recommendation, Miyazaki began playing the 2001 video game Ico, causing him to consider a career change to a game designer. Career Īfter graduating from Keio University with a degree in social science, Miyazaki went to work doing account managing for the US based Oracle Corporation. Alongside this, he was restricted from playing video games by his parents until he was old enough to attend university, so he instead played gamebooks and tabletop games such as Steve Jackson's Sorcery! and Dungeons & Dragons. Using his imagination to fill in the blanks by using the accompanying illustrations, Miyazaki used this as inspiration for some of his later ideas on video game design. The books he read at the time were sometimes beyond his reading capabilities, with parts he could not fully understand. Despite that, he was a heavy reader, but as his parents could not afford to buy him books or manga, he had to borrow from his local library. Miyazaki grew up "tremendously poor" while living in the city of Shizuoka, Japan around 1975, stating that he had no life ambitions as a child.
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