Mario + Rabbids Director Davide Soliani Leaves Ubisoft After 25 Years

I remember that when the game was first leaked, people were mad and posted negative comments to Soliani and his team, but when they showed at E3, everyone was excited and wanted to know more which left Soliani in tears of joy.

At least thats what I remember and read.

Anyway all the best for him.

Seeing him getting emotional that day was really touching.

Getting to work with Miyamoto must have been a highlight of his carrier.

I'm glad the sequel released on switch, it's a great game to just pick up and play on the go!

Wishing him the best wherever he goes!

I wonder if the Ubisoft management style (or lack thereof) drove him away…

Good for him. Abandoning the sinking ship.
Wishing a bright and good future for him!

No Mario + Rabbids 3, I guess. Wonder who he got head-hunted by. He seems like one of the few people who actually liked working for Ubisoft

Hope whatever he does next is still in gaming. The Mario + Rabbids games are fun enough to want to see what he can do outside of Ubisoft’s control.

Really hope he joins Nintendo, maybe works on some Mario RPGs in house.

This is the last straw from Ubisoft lol. The team he was working with kept me a little intrigued by some of their titles. The little we know about Soliani is that he is deeply passionate, and worked among talent to create two stone cold classics.
I’d very much like to wish him success with whatever projects he ends up working on…. Maybe with Nintendo ??

Noooooo! There goes my hopes for a Rayman revival.

Don't worry he's just going on a vacation with Yoshi and Rabbid Yoshi.

I won't even front: the Mario + Rabbids games are my favorite Mario RPGs on the system. I hope this isn't the end of his collaboration with Nintendo.

Good luck to Soliani, I enjoyed Mario+Rabbids: Kingdom Battle. I agree with Guillemot on Sparks of Hope-- Nothing wrong with the game, but I agree it should've waited for the successor system. M+R is a once in a console generation kind of game, and it was a one of a kind surprise to us all this generation, so that popularity wasn't going to get an encore performance this fast.

I wish him the best of luck. Anywhere will be lucky to have him. Actually, I waited a long time before buying the second game just because of the association with Ubisoft. But both Rabbids games were actually fairly different and both really special so I'll be keeping my eye out to see what he does next.

@Not_Soos

Ubisoft likely won't let any studio outside of France, besides Montreal, to lead a Rayman game.

All the respect to Davide, the development teams in Milan, and developing that relationship with Nintendo. Providing a unique experience, introducing more audiences to turn based strategy games in a fun, accessible way

Kind of surprising news, especially because it felt like Soliani and the Mario + Rabbids team were gearing up to tackle a 3D Rayman project. Wonder where he'll go from here, and if it'll still end up involving Nintendo.

I like Soliani a lot.
Mario + Rabbids are my favorite RPG too (but I love them all, M&L, Paper, RPG...), because of the battles all differents.
Beautiful technical and artistic games !
Really one of my favorite serie on Switch.

Nintendo, hire this man!

Nintendo, hire this man.

What they should've done is release the 2nd game content complete without all the season pass dlc nonsense. Why would I bother buying a game new at full price when I know I can wait a year or so and get everything for a fraction of the price. It's the last thing publishers want to consider or admit, but players are wise to their shinanigans. They deeply underestimate how important a game complete on cart is for Nintendo collectors. A few patches is OK, but a big chunk of game missing makes buying a copy physically pointless or leaves a bad taste.

It seems like Nintendo learnt this with Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. I think I paid for two season passes during the switch's lifetime, Zelda Breath of the Wild and Xenoblade 2's dlc, but only just managed to get through BotW's just before TotK came out. Going back to games months or even years after they release isn't that enticing, especially when you have to pay for it and I learnt that after getting burnt on BotW. In Mario Vs Rabbids 2's case it put me off buying it completely when they announced loads of season pass stuff before it even released even though I enjoyed the first game a lot.

It's unfortunate for the games' director as he did a stellar job and got shafted by his greedy employers.

@anoyonmus I don't think Soliani and the team were getting negative comments around the time of the leaks as we had no idea as to which Ubisoft team was working on it til the games reveal. That said, i bet they were seeing those comments before then and feeling disheartened about it all.

Thankfully, the eventual reveal made people backpedal and admit they may have been a bit harsh

I hope he goes and works for Nintendo.

Actually, you know what
He did something that many people thought could never happen...

...he made the Rabbids rather endearing and likeable

Honestly you can tell how humble this man is.
When he saw shigeru miyamoto talk about the game he helped make you could tell it was a massive accomplishment for him. Wish him best of luck.

@anoyonmus because people are mad at ubisoft everything they touch will be full of dlc season passes and ingame credits.
If this guy made the same game at nintendo but replace the rabbits with pikmin or pokemon without dlc this game would have sold much better.

The sequel is great and if you haven't played it you're missing out. Lets hope he joins nintendo officially!