“I realised that people die”
A couple of weeks ago, Hideo Kojima announced that he wasreturning to the action espionage genrewith a new game, codenamedPhysint.
After going independent, Kojima said he wanted to create his own IP, and then his own franchise, which led toDeath Strandingand its upcoming sequel. He also has lots of other new ideas, he says, which led to the creation of his upcoming experimental horror gameOD.
Players wouldn’t stop asking him about Metal Gear, however.
“In the last eight years, every day on social media, from users all around the world, people have been asking me to create another Metal Gear and stuff like that,” says Kojima.
Not a lot is known about Physint at this point, although during its announcement Kojima described it as both a game and a movie.
“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 one or two years to go make a movie. The company would collapse. I was in a tough spot,” he says in the HideoTube episode. “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. 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.”
It’s unlikely we’ll learn much more about what any of this means for a while given Kojima Productions already have two games in development and work on Physint isn’t due to start in earnest until afterDeath Stranding 2is out. In the meantime, you can find the Physint chat with English subtitlesaround the 46m 37s mark in the video.
