Video: Platinum's guidelines for great action game design

From Bayonetta to Vanquish to Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance , Japanese studio Platinum Games has demonstrated a penchant for designing critically-acclaimed action games.

However, the studio's representatives rarely speak in depth about their design process. Platinum Games' Atsushi Inaba contravened that trend last month when he stepped up at GDC 2016 to speak frankly about Platinum's philosophy of action game design.

It was a great talk, one that outlined the game development principles that have guided the studio to create successful games using both external licenses and its own internal IP.

A must-watch for action game developers, Inaba's full talk is now available completely free over on the Official GDC YouTube channel.

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