{"id":4888,"date":"2024-10-01T20:53:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T20:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldclassservers.net\/blog\/2024\/10\/01\/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night-director-stepping-back-from-sequel-after-cancer-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2024-10-01T20:53:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T20:53:15","slug":"bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night-director-stepping-back-from-sequel-after-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nextlevelnews.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/10\/01\/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night-director-stepping-back-from-sequel-after-cancer-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Director Stepping Back from Sequel After Cancer Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Castlevania veteran Shutaro Ida has announced that he will be stepping back from work on Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night 2 following his recent cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>The game developer, who worked on a long list of entries in Konami\u2019s Castlevania series and more recently directed 2019\u2019s Bloodstained, announced the news in<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CurryHermit\/status\/1841040447353053470\"> a post on X\/Twitter<\/a>. He says he\u2019ll be offloading some of his responsibilities with the rest of the team at developer ArtPlay now that he has begun his cancer battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI, SHUTARO, also known as Curry Boy and Curry Sage, have been diagnosed with cancer and have begun my battle with the disease. I have already started talking about the sequel to Bloodstained, and have ideas for the game and such. From now on, the responsibility [for game direction] will be shared. Thank you for your support,&#8221; Ida wrote in a post translated by X and verified by IGN.<\/p>\n<p>Ida has been instrumental in the Bloodstained universe and had planned on continuing it with a sequel. Bloodstained 2 was originally<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night-2-sequel\"> announced back in 2021<\/a>, though no additional details about its progress have arrived since then. At the time, publisher 505 Games touted the action RPG as a success that managed to reach \u201cgenerally favorable\u201d reviews from both critics and fans on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night\/\"> Metacritic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u3053\u308c\u307e\u3067\u3001DS\u30b7\u30ea\u30fc\u30ba\u3084\u30d6\u30e9\u30c3\u30c9\u30b9\u30c6\u30a4\u30f3\u30c9\u306f\u5b9f\u8cea\u7684\u306bSHUTARO\u30c7\u30a3\u30ec\u30af\u30bf\u30fc\u3092\u4e2d\u5fc3\u306b\u5236\u4f5c\u3092\u884c\u3063\u3066\u304d\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<br \/>\u6b63\u306b\u5f7c\u306e\u4f5c\u54c1\u3068\u8a00\u3048\u308b\u3067\u3057\u3087\u3046\u3002<br \/>\u305d\u3093\u306a\u5f7c\u304c\u30d7\u30ed\u30b8\u30a7\u30af\u30c8\u304b\u3089\u9060\u3056\u304b\u308b\u306e\u306f\u5927\u5909\u306a\u75db\u624b\u3067\u3059\u304c\u3001\u305d\u308c\u306b\u8ca0\u3051\u306c\u3088\u3046\u9811\u5f35\u308a\u307e\u3059\u3002<br \/>\u307e\u305f\u4e00\u7dd2\u306b\u4ed5\u4e8b\u304c\u3067\u304d\u308b\u307e\u3067\u56de\u5fa9\u3059\u308b\u3053\u3068\u3092\u671f\u5f85\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YirZi5fYYD\">https:\/\/t.co\/YirZi5fYYD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IGA (@KojiIGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KojiIGA\/status\/1841046423493886146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2024<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Longtime Castlevania producer and ArtPlay president Koji Igarashi<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KojiIGA\/status\/1841046423493886146\"> re-posted Iida\u2019s remarks<\/a>. While acknowledging Iida\u2019s contributions to the series and gaming as a whole, he assures fans that the rest of the team will push through until Ida is able to work with them again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUp until now, the DS [Castlevania] series and Bloodstained have essentially been produced primarily by Director SHUTARO. It can truly be called his work. It is a great blow to have him step away from the project, but we will do our best not to be defeated by it. I hope that you will recover quickly enough to work with us again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ida led the charge on Bloodstained and made a game that we ranked as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-best-metroidvanias\"> the fourth best Metroidvania of all-time<\/a>. In our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2019\/06\/25\/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night-review\"> 8.8\/10 review<\/a>, we said, \u201cThe wait was worth it. 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