Another E3 for Playstation 4! After the machine-gun fire of trailers and reveals that was Microsoft’s E3, Sony’s quiet focus on just four Playstation titles felt a bit underwhelming. The games shown off looked great, but there’s a consensus that Microsoft won this year’s E3 despite showing far fewer exclusives. I’m still a PS4 man, though (except when it comes to Fortnite, because of this.)
Death Stranding is the highly anticipated first title from Hideo Kojima and his studio. It’s set to star Norman Reedus and Mads Mikkelsen, aside from that, and the stylized look we know to expect from Kojima games, we don’t know much else about it. And apparently, some of the stars dont’ know what the game is about either.
Hideo Kojima has had an interesting few years. Between bringing the true end to the Metal Gear Solid series via Phantom Pain, then slowly getting kicked out of Konami, to then forming Kojima Productions and making its first title Death Stranding, he’s been through a lot. And Kojima acknowledges that.
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has clarified his role in Hideo Kojima’s new game, Death Stranding. He told IGN that he is not creatively involved, though, as the Game Awards trailer revealed in December, he is a character in the game. Talking about the game, del Toro said:
“Kojima-san called me and said, ‘I want you to be a character in the game,’ and I said, ‘Gladly.’ He’s discussed his ideas so I could understand the character, but other than that I’m not involved, creatively, at all. This is entirely Kojima-san’s game. I think it’s gonna be a fantastic game, 100%. But this is him and his ideas. I’m just a puppet in his hands. My contribution is limited to being a cheerleader for his ideas and being scanned for long hours at a time. That’s about it.”
del Toro is not the only famous person in Death Stranding. The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus is the lead character, while Hannibal’s Mads Mikkelsen is playing some kind of bad guy. Kojima and del Toro said in the past they were interested in working together on something new, and Death Stranding was later revealed to be that game. They were working together on Silent Hills before it was canceled, something del Toro still voices his discontent for. Silent Hills wasn’t the first video game project involving del Toro that fell apart. The Pan’s Labyrinth director was working on a horror game called Insane with publisher THQ, but it never materialized, in part due to the company’s bankruptcy. After being burned twice, del Toro has said he doesn’t intend to try to make a game of his own again. Last year, Guillermo del Toro said:
“I have proven to be the albatross of video games. I joined THQ, and THQ goes broke. I join Kojima, and Kojima leaves Konami. I have decided, in order not to destroy anyone else’s life, I will never again get involved in video games. Otherwise, I’ll join someone and his house will explode, or something.”
Hideo Kojima has finally broken free from Konami’s icy grip and founded his own video game production company, Kojima Productions. They’re busy at work for Sony on their first solo title, Death Stranding…and we wish we could tell you what it’s going to be about, but in typical Kojima fashion, the trailers released so far are both abstract and intentionally misleading.
During a recent Q&A session at the Tokyo Game Show, Hideo Kojima of Kojima Productions (via IGN), revealed some new details on the highly anticipated Hideo Kojima game, Death Stranding. This new game marks the Kojima’s first project since his separation from Konami, the publishers of the Metal Gear Solid series. Kojima also shared some details on the company’s official Twitter account.
At the Tokyo Game Show, video game legend Hideo Kojima took to the stage to talk about many things. One of the first though was Metal Gear Survive. He was asked whether he had come up with that idea while he was at Konami, to which he promptly responded:
Legendary developer Hideo Kojima revealed his new studios first game, Death Standing, at the Sony E3 Press Conference, however, not many were sure what to make of the title. Kojima talked with IGN, and explained what he could, or would, about the action title:
Legendary game designer Hideo Kojima took to the stage at E3, revealing the first game from his new studio. Titled Death Stranding, the game stars Norman Reedus, who was set to work with Kojima previous on the Silent Hills game before the plug was pulled.