I don't like Kojima, I think he's a hack.Everything cool people think he made is either made entirely by Yoji Shinkawa or by people working under Kojima and yet all the praise is reserved only for Kojima. I think he also doesn't like or even understand video games at all. He is, self-admittedly, a movie fan and he, self-admittedly, always wanted to make movies - not video games. This is the reason why MGS has 2 hour long cutscenes - this is what Kojima actually direct, not the gameplay.The Death Stranding, the first game that Kojima made independent of Konami is bad. I think a lot of you don't know or don't remember, but many months before there was any official announcement or teaser of the first Death Stranding, Kojima was going from interview to interview telling everyone that he's in the process of developing a "conceptually entirely new genre of video games" and that it won't just be a new genre, it will be pretty much a new school of philosophy in art, not yet seen by the world.In reality, Death Stranding is literally just MGSV. They repurpose same model skeletons, same animations and same concepts for gadgets. The gameplay loop in both games is exactly the same:>have open map>pick one of a few different mission objectives (differ slightly but essentially the same thing - go from spawn point to point A and press a button/do required action) >pick your equipment and gadgets for the mission>select a spawn point>encounter enemy camps where you can go lethal or non-lethal and stealth/non-stealth>once in 4-5 of these missions 1 of them will be with a cutscene as an indication of story progressionThe only difference is that DS has "walking without falling mechanic" and MGSV has more enemies and more fun gadgets to play with.
>he always wanted to make moviesThen why doesn't he make any now? If youtubers can break into the film industry, surely a renowned game director can.
The writing in DS is atrocious and feels like something 12 year old would make as his first attempt at writing. The pacing is amateurish and low-quality, the dialogues are silly and awkward (characters pretty much repeat the same few lines the whole game over and over again) and the main story line is nonsense. The main idea was also stolen from manga and it's a known fact, but since Kojima is liked by people it is framed as "inspiration" and "epic retelling". I cannot believe people actually say the writing and the story is what they actually like about DS and it unironically makes me think goyim will like anything as long as goyim is conditioned to like it.
