The three authors also cohost a podcast, Bullet Points, about video games in the shooter genre, and McCarter previously edited an essay collection, Shooter, with a contribution from Smith, that was released four years ago.
On Wednesday, three video game journalists, Reid McCarter, Ed Smith, and Astrid Rose, published a collection of essays about the franchise titled Okay, Hero. But no photo of West and Kojima emerged Kojima seemed oblivious to West’s existence, though the development of Death Stranding has, for the past couple of years, resembled the star-studded, stunt-casted recording sessions of two of West’s albums, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and The Life of Pablo.įor decades, Kojima has dared fans and critics to make sense of his games. You can easily imagine West and Kojima posing for a photo together while smiling, as celebrities are wont to do, and reveling in the intersection of their respective fan bases in West, Kojima might have made his most famous friend. Last December, as Kojima tweeted photos from the subway during a visit to New York City, Kanye West tweeted a request to meet with him. It’s rarefied air, buzzing with influences and collaborators in constant conversation, memorialized by the photos Kojima shares all day, every day, on social media. Since The Phantom Pain, Kojima has recruited Hollywood talent, including Kiefer Sutherland, Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Guillermo del Toro, and Nicolas Winding Refn, to star in his games and, more importantly, to star in his creative orbit. His games are, alternatively, bombastic and prophetic he’s cultivated a stardom which eclipses the popularity of his Metal Gear games and transcends his medium altogether. Nintendo’s mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto is beloved, but Kojima is a rock star. There are many great video games, but there are few creators whom fans and critics celebrate as auteurs, much less celebrities. He went on to form his own studio, Kojima Productions, where he developed his latest project, Death Stranding-an open-world game set amid a landscape of blackened wasteland, with survivalist gameplay and environmentalist themes-which will be released in November.
Four years ago, following the release of the final title, The Phantom Pain, Kojima, the medium’s rebel genius, left Metal Gear’s longtime publisher, Konami, following a long and infamous dispute. In the franchise, which spans 32 years and consists of eight mainline titles plus several spinoffs, Kojima authors a rich and bewildering saga featuring the world-renowned mercenary Solid Snake and his character’s many clone brothers. Hideo Kojima, the creator of Metal Gear, the popular stealth-action shooter video games, makes for a strange celebrity.
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