FromSoft president, Dark Souls creator, and guy who never reads the comments Hidetaka Miyazaki has won himself yet another title, Famitsu reports: He’s the second game developer ever to receive a spot on Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year list. Sitting alongside names like Joe Biden, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and, uh, MrBeast, Miyazaki is the first dev to make the list since Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto in 2007.
Every person on the list has a short blurb written by a famous (though, I suppose, not notably influential, which has got to sting) person explaining their significance, and Miyazaki’s is no different. His entry was written by Neil Druckmann, Naughty Dog co-president and co-creator of The Last of Us.
“The first time I played one of Hidetaka Miyazaki’s games, I was miserable,” wrote Druckmann, echoing an experience plenty of us have had when we first bashed our heads off of a Soulsborne game. But as he learned to slow down a little, “it all of a sudden clicked”.
“As I moved forward in the game, I was much more deliberate, careful in how I explored this world. And in return the world rewarded me with tension, beauty…