168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hideo Kojima has three admirers: himself, Geoff Keighley, and the rest of the video game industry, apparently. There’s an obsessive cult following around Kojima and his works, with his name and personal𒊎ity becoming the singular face of the teams that helped make everything he’s worked on.
First and foremost, I don’t have an issue with praising the games he’s 🤪created. There’s enough hate in the industry, and praise should be given where it’s due. I do𒈔n’t even have a problem with Kojima on a personal level, because - surprise - I’ve never met the guy.
I just do✱n’t understand the image that now surrounds hꦛim, painted by his fans, when there are so many creators, directors, and developers on an equal level.
Metal Gear Solid And Death Stranding Are Good
There’s no denying 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metal Gear Solid is😼 a significant series. Moments like the Psycho Mantis boss fight will go down in video game history, doing things never before seen with the hardware available. It’📖s also a very strange series, in a great way, and that element of ‘strange’ has very much become a staple of Kojima’s signature identity.
‘No, you don’t get it! Quiet has to wear less because she breathes through her �𝔉�skin!!’
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Death Stranding took the strange to a new level, almost in a completely convoluted way. It’s a good game, don🍸’t get me wrong𝓀 - I played it all the way through - but would I call it genius? No, it’s just strange.
Although I enjoyed Death Stranding, I’m far from intrigued by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the sequel. I’m sure it’ll be a solid game, no doubt, but it just looks even weirder in a way I can’t convince myself is anything other than jarring. And yet, as another trailer shows a talking puppet, the return of Troy Baker, a new bunch of needless cameos, all complemented by a social media post from Kojima showing a black and white picture of him editing another trailer or something,🦩 fans go wild and herald his mind as something beyond that of any other.
Before❀ any potential comments, you’re allowed to like it more than I do without comparing the level of enjoyment to an intellectual factor, thanks.
Plenty of movie directors and writers have cult followings; it’s not an unusual phenomenon. Quentin Tarantino, Wes 🌼Anderson, and Steven Spielberg - they all have distinct styles, and as a result, have garnered the attention of a consistently increasing number of fans. But in video games, the love falls on development studios like Rockstar, Naughty Dog, and Bethesda.
And then, Hideo Kojima. Not 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kojima Productions - Hideo Kojima.
“A New Form Of Media,” Says The Creator Of The “Strand” Genre
Again, let me be clear: Kojima has worked on brilliant games in the past, and Kojima Productions did well with Death Stranding. The man🎃 clearly knows what he’s doing when it comes to creating unique worlds and stories, and I love that. But when Kojima turns up for another 15-minute segment at The Game Awards - completely unrelated to the actual awards or achievements - I roll my eyes.
Sure, 2024’s TGA’s had a couple of Muppets making fun of Geoff Keighley, including his obsession with Kojima, but the🍃 self-awareness remained hypocritical about most th💖ings.
At 2023’s The Game Awards, Kojima stepped on stage with director Jordan Peele - another notable name in media. Here, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kojima announced a new projec🅺t titled OD. What was the announcement? A couple of close-ups on 3D captured faces saying some nonsense before one of them screams, followed by Kojima describing it as a “new form of media”, to bleꦍnd movie-making with video game development. I definitely rolled my eyes at this.
I’m sure it’ll be good enough, but people immediately backing what is a one-and-a-half-minute tech showcase of some faces with a s🥂elf-visionary statement? Come on now.
Someone show Kojima 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Alan Wake 2, already.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Dea𓆏th Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Released
- June 26, 2025
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ // Violence, Blood ♊and Gore,♈ Partial Nudity, Strong Language
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kojima Productions
- Publisher(s)
- 𝕴 Sony Interactive Entꦬertainment
- Engine
- Decima
