Hideo Kojima's return to action espionage was prompted by a health scare in 2020 and 8 years of fans begging for another Metal Gear
Feb. 9, 2024Guillermo Del Toro also had a helping hand
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Hideo Kojimahas spoken about his new “action espionage game” for the first time since its reveal, and has revealed one of the main reasons for its creation was that fans kept asking him to make “another Metal Gear.”
Kojima adds that he wrote a will, and “realized people die.” He recalls how he turned 60 last year, and will turn 70 in another nine years. “I hope to never retire. Having said that, if the users desire it so much, I thought I should change my priorities a bit. I still want to do new things, but I decided to make an action-espionage game,” he continued.
Kojima then revealed he gets “many requests” from Hollywood to make a film, but he always declines since he has his own studio to take care of now. He also highlights how he couldn’t just leave game development for one or two years, or he feels like Kojima Productions itself “would collapse.”
“I was in a tough spot. And 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,” Kojima concluded. Kojima previously featured Del Toro in the first Death Stranding, but we don’t yet know if he’s returning in the same capacity for Death Stranding 2.
As for the new action espionage game, Kojima previously revealed it’s currently going by the codename “Physint,” and that he’s “confident” it would be the “culmination” of his work. It also took just a few minutes forMetal Gear fans to claim Physint as a spiritual successor to the Konami series, which is no huge surprise considering who’s helming it.
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