Hideo Kojima minces no words on his new action espionage game: "If your mother walks in and sees you playing this game, she'll think you're watching a movie"
Feb. 9, 2024“Though the output is a game, it won’t be too different from movies”
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Hideo Kojima’s new game, the action espionage title Physint, is set to"transcend the barriers between film and video games.“In fact, Kojima says that Physint will be close enough to a movie that it’ll even fool your mom.
In his returningHideoTube seriesonYouTube, Kojima says that Physint will be “both a game and a movie at the same time. That’s why we were atSonyPictures.” The line seems to beslightlycloser to game than movie, though. “Of course, it will be a game. However, if your mother walks in and sees you playing this game, she’ll think you’re watching a movie. I’m not sure how far we can take it yet.”
Kojima’s love of film is evident everywhere from hisTwitter profileto the lengthy cutscenes in his games, and fans have often joked that he’s as much an aspiring filmmaker as a game director. Yet it seems he’s not interested in leaving his game development studio behind. “I get many requests from Hollywood to make films, but I’ve refused them. Because I have my own company now, I can’t leave for 1 or 2 years to go make a movie. The company would collapse.”
But with those Hollywood requests on the table, Kojima says “I talked to Guillermo del Toro about it. And he said, ‘Hideo, what you’re making is already a movie. Keep going as you are.’ His words saved me. And since we’ll be working with many creators in the business, though the output is a game, it won’t be too different from movies.”
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