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I think that the most spectacular thing about all this is that the whole shit that went down with Konami and Sony picking him up set Kojima up to be in a really unique position. Not only does he basically have a blank check to make his friends do weird stuff within a game that looks mind-shreddingly gorgeous, but at the same time he's not relegated to test the concept of something that is TOTALLY fucking insane as a smaller indy title like most people/companies would be for something this... out-there.
Every time I see something for this, all I can think of is,
"Literally ONLY Hideo Kojima could or would ever make this."
Like... most other games – even ones that I really love, I can see the possibility of someone trying out something similar on some level if those games had never been made... but the fact that everything about this seems SO off the wall and indiscernible but intriguing is what gets me the most. It's one of those things where if it's properly successful, I can see it making huge waves in the industry for just going in a weird new direction. Like Octo mentioned with the Un Chein Andalou reference, it's like seeing full-blown surrealism in video game format at a time when the rest of the major industry is in a completely different era of art.
(Also, for some reason I'm most curious about the rainbow being upside down in the trailer. It's such a minor little thing, but it's there intentionally and that feels so very different to just about all of the other forms of weirdness on display).
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Every time I see something for this, all I can think of is,
"Literally ONLY Hideo Kojima could or would ever make this."
Like... most other games – even ones that I really love, I can see the possibility of someone trying out something similar on some level if those games had never been made... but the fact that everything about this seems SO off the wall and indiscernible but intriguing is what gets me the most. It's one of those things where if it's properly successful, I can see it making huge waves in the industry for just going in a weird new direction. Like Octo mentioned with the Un Chein Andalou reference, it's like seeing full-blown surrealism in video game format at a time when the rest of the major industry is in a completely different era of art.
(Also, for some reason I'm most curious about the rainbow being upside down in the trailer. It's such a minor little thing, but it's there intentionally and that feels so very different to just about all of the other forms of weirdness on display).
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