Hideo Kojima celebrates Metal Gear Solid 5's 9th anniversary by remembering how he did basically "everything"
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Hideo Kojimahas celebrated Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain’s ninth anniversary by pointing out that he did basically everything surrounding the game and its promotion.
Somehow, yesterday, September 1, marked the ninth anniversary of Metal Gear Solid 5’s launch. To mark the occasion, game director Kojima has taken to Twitter to remind everyone that he did far more than just direct the actual game itself - he also did “promotional videos,” “trailers, key visuals, package,” and “concepts, layouts, checking.”
“It includes everything. That’s my style,” Kojima adds to conclude the tweet above. Kojima has long been relatively famed for personally editing the trailers for his games, so I doubt there’ll be anyone out there who didn’t already know that bit of information. There might be fewer people who know he also oversees aspects like “concepts” and “checking.”
Not content with just one tweet, Kojima adds the follow-up tweet just below, revealing that “it’s tough to do all these while making the game at the same time,” but he believes this is “part of my works.” Finally, as if doing all that wasn’t enough, Kojima also oversees all of the merchandising surrounding his games, which definitely isn’t a common role for a game director.
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