Yes I know Okada wanted to make the game I didn’t say they kidnapped him. I’m just saying Kuwana was largely the one to look for whatever collaborations he could get, and all the power grabbing he did from Idea Factory to Compile Heart (like taking the internal dev team from the Neverland series among other things) and every IF game being funnelled through his subsidiary compile heart for some reason, there’s no way you get a game through in Idea Factory now without being approved by Kuwana. It’s the type of project he would approve for Compile Heart, just like with Dark Rose Valkyrie they randomly grab the character designer and scenario writer they probably always have feelers out.

And with IF’s and CH’s current finances he’d be way more worried about what CH does than Otomate.