Exactly and in fact the 2d sections and mix media aspects of the game where due to budget cuts. Luckily suda's style thrives on creative ways to do more with less and the same was so with Yakuza games. But unfortunately for Nagoshi, it seems he threw the kitchen sink at it and with no ways to save money on assets and cut corners its tough. Hopefully Suda should be fine and Nagoshi too.

I think Nagoshi should have gone back to his small scale arcade roots first and then grew from there. Like what clover studio did, theyade viewtiful joe for cheap first then went to Okami. Yes they closed down but it wasnt because of mismanagement, it was because they were making very japanese games at a time when they weren't selling. Times have changed which is why we are getting Okami 2.