As you know, I made Devil May Cry seven or eight years before Bayonetta. It started as a new series of Resident Evil originally, not as a 100 percent pure action game. However, it changed into an action game and lots of people loved it, and of course I was really satisfied with what we did.

But when I was wondering what to make for the first title [with] Platinum Games, [Platinum’s Yusuke] Hashimoto suggested me to make an action game again, and that made me so excited because I wanted to know if we could move forward with [and] reform an action game eight years after Devil May Cry.

On another note, he’s on his second playthrough and hopes to actually get some medals this time.

Source: Beefjack