The Rise of Hidetaka Miyazaki

Please give the video a like for Hidetaka Miyazaki! And share in the comments your reaction to his amazing journey.

Miyazaki is quite simply the greatest game designer of our generation. Once you play a Miyazaki game and have that “click” moment, nothing else compares. The fact that his background and story is so charming is just a 🍒 on top.

watching this in a poison swamp for maximum immersion

This guy worked the job he didn't want to do and put his dreams apart for the love of her sister and left as soon as she was safe, what a hero

Speaking of Nausicaa, I love how Hidetaka Miyazaki is a cheerful, supportive, and upbeat man famous for creating dark, opaque, and punishing media, while Hayao Miyazaki is a grumpy, stern perfectionist who's most known for bright, child-friendly, and instantly poignant stories.

Godbless. This man is truly the face of unshakable integrity and passion in game design

Yes miyazaki is the greatest game designer ever. No game has touched and changed more lives than dark souls. Dark souls saved my life when I was trying to get clean. I was in a sober living home and could feel myself slipping backwards. One day I went to a flea market and bought a 360 and bought dark souls 2 because I thought it looked cool. I fell in love and idk, it refocused me, I took my recovery more seriously and ive been clean 4 years now. After dark souls 2 I picked up DS1,DS3, Bloodborne and I fell in love even more. And then sekiro and elden ring.. Miyazaki just does not miss

As a person who’s about to be 30 and hasn’t been able to do much to try to accomplish my dreams until very recently it’s very inspiring hearing Miyazaki wasn’t able to start on this path until he was 30.

The best game director in the world right now, a living legend

Knowing his influences, Miyazaki must have felt right at home when got into From Software. They already had a penchant for vague and indirect story telling. Never get tired of his story, it's really heartwarming to see another human not only achieve their dream. But it gets taken further in that his dream is a medium that he can use to bring so many of us a long for the ride.

I love the way Miyazaki answers. You get the clean impression of someone in full control of their ego. Someone intelligent and thoughtful, but also one whose feet are firmly on the ground, openly acknowledging the roles luck and outside circumstances have had to his rise, alongside a clear grasp of his own abilities.

Miyazakis parents who didn't let him gain a mainstream influence with gaming: YOU'RE WELCOME

I think that some people, like Miyazaki for instance, have a truly different way of interpreting things around them compared to other people

It's incredible how a single person can drastically change a company and generate so much value around themselves. In the case of Miyazaki, he is undoubtedly a man with exceptional talent. Beyond the notoriety and economic success that his leadership has brought to FromSoftware, he has also propelled the industry forward, promoted the creation of quality entertainment, and debunked the notion pushed by major companies that video games are only enjoyed as a service where you constantly pay for worthless content. It's also important to consider the value he has promoted solely through the discussion of his ideas, enabling content creators to engage in profound conversations and allowing numerous enthusiasts to explore artistic, cultural, and philosophical aspects through the analysis of his work. Only exceptional ideas and the dedication invested in them can achieve that level of admiration.

Stumbling upon Ash Lake in Dark Souls 1 was such a majestic and terrifying experience. I felt like I immediately understood the bleak history of the area without really knowing anything. I felt this again almost a decade later in Elden Ring after finding an elevator in the middle of the Mistwood..

This is such a great video. I just started playing Dark Souls and Sekiro this year and i had no idea heow inspired he was. His backstory really hits close to me, even the part about working hard to support his sister in college. As a kid in Nigeria in the 2000s, i had no access to the internet or much of current entertainment media partly due to my family's financial situation but also the developing status of my country. My dad and mom would instead buy VHS tapes of animated literature classics like Treasure Island and the original Star Wars. They also bought me adventure novels like Three Musketeers and others. So growing up, i always had a preference for reading books and i love fantasy fiction and adventure stories. Even cartoons i watched like Dexter's laboratory, featured references to Dungeons and dragons. Now, i want to write my own fiction books and create stories like Miyazake does.

I love his story so much. It’s very much a rags to riches situation; yet he never lost his vision and passion along the way, even now with the sheer amount of success he has. I am extremely happy that he went with fromsoft and not like Nintendo; however I would love to see a Miyazaki directed Zelda game. Wouldn’t that be amazing?

miyazaki being sheltered from games growing up makes so much sense why his game design is so different from the norm, although his upbringing could also have nothing to do with it

I am a self-taught piano player and am currently recording my first album. This is my first experience doing this and now i understand why art can kill you. Since every song has to be perfectly played, playing one single wrong note means starting again from the beginning . So I decided I would see every song as a boss in a Fromsoft game, because these games taught me that it doesn't matter how many times you have to go again, all that matters is not giving up. So thanks Mr Miyazaki and all the people who brought these beautiful games into existence. I'll beat the fuck out of this final boss.

Love you chose the DS1 character creation music as the background music.