We thought it was lost forever in the meanders of video game history, but Scalebound is resuscitated today in the media space via a cry from the heart of his father, the charismatic Hideki Kamiya. The few rare gameplay videos of the game present a very nervous A-RPG, at the controls of a hero resembling Nero and accompanied by a dragon which would obviously have had an immense importance in the course of the action.
The most concrete we have on Scalebound, you can watch it in the 6 minute video from Gamescom 2015 just above. This is a project that the creator of Devil May Cry and Bayonetta cares about very much, so it’s not so surprising to see him try to reopen the discussion. with Microsoft and Phil Spencer’s Xbox division. Hideki Kamiya and Atsushi Inaba of Platinum Games are very serious, they sincerely wish to resume work on Scalebound and therefore spoke about it during an interview given to IGN Japan.
It remains to be seen whether Phil Spencer will be willing to heed that call, but after the $80 billion takeover of Activision-Blizzard and the good current on which the Xbox brand has been carried lately, there is something to be optimistic about. As it stands, the development of the game (whose license is still at Microsoft) is quite well advanced and according to Inaba, it would be a waste to do nothing with it. we still feel that the studio picked up some ideas from Scalebound for the next installment of Bayonetta, which seems more centered than ever on battles alongside XXL-sized summons.