![]() ![]() We were asked politely to focus on the game, not the turmoil of Konami and Kojima's break-up. This time, there was no Kojima, no one we recognized from Kojima Productions. I can't remember many times when I previewed a Metal Gear game and Kojima wasn't there - save for one, when Metal Gear Solid 4 producer Ryan Payton showed me that game in a one-on-one setting. The last time we were there, Kojima was joined by designer Yoji Shinkawa, producer Yuji Korekado and actress Stephanie Joosten, who plays the sniper known as Quiet in the game. When we visited Konami's Los Angeles studio last month to preview The Phantom Pain, we did so without the presence of Hideo Kojima. I'm still not sure what to make of certain moments, certain decisions I'd been asked to make early on, but I couldn't shake Kojima's current reality with the situations presented in his game. The opening moments of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain are memorable, and thanks to an apparent falling out between Kojima and Konami made somewhat more bizarre. If you do, you'll see those scenes again during the game's prologue. You might remember a flaming whale, a man on fire riding a scorched winged unicorn, a man who looked like Big Boss crawling on hands and knees to escape death. You might have seen some of it when The Phantom Pain was unveiled back in 2012 at the Spike VGAs, back when Metal Gear Solid 5 was surreptitiously revealed under a pseudonym, supposedly in development at the fictitious Moby Dick Studios. ![]() I'm not permitted to divulge plot details on Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, per Konami's restrictive coverage demands for the game, but the opening hour of the latest game in the Metal Gear franchise is a surreal, terrifying wonder. ![]() The man knows how to make a good horror game." Thirty minutes into the latest, and perhaps final, Metal Gear game developed by series creator Hideo Kojima and his team at Kojima Productions, I couldn't help but think, "It's a shame that Kojima won't be allowed to give the world Silent Hills. ![]()
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