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Shimbori left Team Ninja because he was being taken advantage of, overworked, and used as a scapegoat for the failure of others (both above, and below). He was also promoted into a position (producer) he had no desire to be in.
He gave you the best DOA game you ever received from a competitive standpoint. He wasn't some talentless hack. Despite his director credit on 6, he was barely involved on the design level. It was effectively a training job for Nakamura to move up the ladder. But since Shimbori has the credit, does the sole responsibility lie with him? Not really, considering he was promoted AGAINST HIS WILL. You can't just force somebody into a position they don't want to be in and then blame them for everything that goes wrong. That is why he left. If anything, the blame goes to Hayashi for creating the situation without understanding his employees.
Was Shimbori completely without fault here? No, he still made some bad calls on situations he was completely aware of. Was he aware of most of the bad situations? Based on our conversations with him, not really no. He was pretty disconnected from things due to his producer duties and other projects he was on, and he couldn't answer most of the questions I asked him simply due to lack of knowledge about a particular subject. When I would have talks with him during his DOA 5 tenure, it was a completely different experience.
Now I'm aware a lot of you fellas are frustrated about where things ended up... but to pin it all on Shimbori is the ignorant answer. You simply have no idea what kind of shitshow was going on in that office, and how utterly impossible that project was from the very start. If you don't put your key players in the right positions, failure is inevitable.
He gave you the best DOA game you ever received from a competitive standpoint. He wasn't some talentless hack. Despite his director credit on 6, he was barely involved on the design level. It was effectively a training job for Nakamura to move up the ladder. But since Shimbori has the credit, does the sole responsibility lie with him? Not really, considering he was promoted AGAINST HIS WILL. You can't just force somebody into a position they don't want to be in and then blame them for everything that goes wrong. That is why he left. If anything, the blame goes to Hayashi for creating the situation without understanding his employees.
Was Shimbori completely without fault here? No, he still made some bad calls on situations he was completely aware of. Was he aware of most of the bad situations? Based on our conversations with him, not really no. He was pretty disconnected from things due to his producer duties and other projects he was on, and he couldn't answer most of the questions I asked him simply due to lack of knowledge about a particular subject. When I would have talks with him during his DOA 5 tenure, it was a completely different experience.
Now I'm aware a lot of you fellas are frustrated about where things ended up... but to pin it all on Shimbori is the ignorant answer. You simply have no idea what kind of shitshow was going on in that office, and how utterly impossible that project was from the very start. If you don't put your key players in the right positions, failure is inevitable.