Shinji Mikami

thumb|During the time when we were making it, my personal feeling was that Resident Evil was not a game that should be made into a series. Shinji Mikami (born August 11, 1965) is a Japanese video game director and producer. Quotes This is just my personal take, but to me the definition of survival horror is a game where fear and the sense of exhilaration coincide. So some of the games out there don’t exactly fit my definition. But I don’t have any rights to the definition of the genre so people can call them survival horror if they feel it fits. Basically, I understand that the spectrum of what survival horror is to the general public is pretty wide. An Interview With Shinji Mikami, The Father Of Survival Horror (September 10, 2014) During the time when we were making it, my personal feeling was that Resident Evil was not a game that should be made into a series. This is because horror tends to have strong patterns that are easy to get used to, meaning they're easy to get tired of. I never thought that the game would become such a huge hit. Resident Evil Creator Shinji Mikami Reflects on the Series' Roots (March 22, 2016) External links Category:Game designers Category:1965 births Category:Living people Category:People from Japan