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Kojima on Death Stranding: “Even now, I don’t understand the game”

vestan

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Kojima on Death Stranding: "Even now, I don't understand the game"
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Via VG247 & Financial Times

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Death Stranding's own creator says he doesn't understand the game. Speaking to the Financial Times, the video game auteur himself admitted even he can't quite comprehend his upcoming title – a star-studded action game where the focus is connection rather than destruction.
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"Death Stranding… even now, I don't understand the game," said Kojima of the PlayStation 4 release. "Its world view, gameplay, they are all new. My mission is to create a genre that does not currently exist, and which takes everyone by surprise. There is, naturally, a risk in that…"
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Kojima theorises that video games are in some ways the ultimate expression of craftsmanship. While he has famously been a proponent of cinematic games, he describes what he does not in terms of art but rather as a craft service. Something more in line with a sushi master, someone who creates beautiful dishes but whose goal is ultimately nourishment.
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"There are stories being told [in cinema] that my generation may find surprising but which the gamer generation doesn't find weird at all," he says of the distinction between the art of both industries.
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"If you take something that looks like a banana and give it the title 'apple', that works as art. But it doesn't apply to games. We are making things that are interactive. A banana has to be edible after you peel the skin. Cars have to be drivable. For games to be interactive and to deliver the enjoyment, there has to be a reality where there are lots of people backstage making it all happen.
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"That is us – a kind of art-driven service industry."
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fracas

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This game is either going to be a straight up turd or an incredible experience. There is no in between.

I'm leaning heavily toward the former but I'm still interested to see how it turns out.
 
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fracas said:
This game is either going to be a straight up turd or an incredible experience. There is no in between.

I'm leaning heavily toward the latter but I'm still interested to see how it turns out.
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I'm leaning towards the former honestly. Guy sounds confused and not totally certain about his product
 
Durden

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This is like....exactly what I want to hear.

Fuck yes. So Kojima that Kojima doesn't know.
 
gnexus

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I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on hara-kiri rock.
 
kirbyfan407

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This seems like it could be a semi-joking response, but at the same time, maybe this would explain why some people are confused about the game after watching the trailers put out. If a creator doesn't know fully comprehend the game (or at least how to articulate their comprehension), that could be a barrier to explaining it to others. (Of course, trailers could also intentionally be vague to keep up mystery.)

I'm guessing it's just a semi-joking response.
 
FusedAtoms

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Lmao only Kojima could say this and it would get me hyped. Even if this game is bad we're in for something truly bizarre
 

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lmfao

i have no horse in the race but the arguments over impressions/thoughts about this unreleased game are entertaining. this kojima guy sounds like a trip

i can not think of any other instance where a creator saying this would be immediately received positively. maybe at an art gallery
 
TripaSeca

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LOL!

But I dont think he said in the sense "IDK what I am doing", but he doesn't comprehend how it will be seen, what impact it'll have, how this genre will be called.

Maybe we'd need a better translation?
 
ZeroCDR

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How anyone can take everything that's been presented so far and not see this as a big budget dumpster fire is beyond me.

Happy to be proven wrong, visually it looks incredible.
 
Alex840

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It genuinely sounds like he's trying something different. Even if it's terrible, I still need to see it.
 
DoubleTake

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TripaSeca said:
how this genre will be called.
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I mean hes been quoted as calling it a "strand game" multiple times.

I do find the part about him saying "you can call a banana an apple and that will pass as art" interesting considering all we know so far about this "strand system" is that it's basically a form of asynchronous multiplayer.
 
Dust

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"Kojima-san...what is Death Stranding?"
"Look you have Hollywood actors and you can piss, sit and climb ladders, okay? What else do you want from a computer video game?"

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JamRock7

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"You won't ever understand this game" isn't a good selling point. Especially when the creator doesn't even understand it
 
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