Mari Shimazaki told me via email she originally met SCV’s art director
at a party, mentioned she was looking forward to the game, and then when
she became a freelancer, found herself called in for a meeting. She has
three designs in the game — the primary costume for new character
Leixia, and the alternate costumes for Tira and Ivy.
Just before this year’s Tokyo Game Show,
Namco announced that in addition to their internal
Project Soul development team, three external developers were helping create
Soul Calibur V —
CyberConnect2
on the story, and Creative Intelligence Arts/Forcewick Sound Design on
the audio. And now they’re adding one more to that list, with
Bayonetta character designer Mari Shimazaki
contributing costumes. Namco calls her a “guest costume designer,”
keeping the terminology they use for “guest characters” like Ezio in
SCV.
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