Kojima's making his action-espionage game because people begged him to make "another Metal Gear" on Twitter for 8 years

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Hideo Kojima has spoken about his new "action espionage game" for the first time since its reveal, and has revealed one of the main reasons for its creation was that fans kept asking him to make "another Metal Gear."

The latest episode of HideoTube, featuring Hideo Kojima, Kenjiro Tsuda, and Risa Unai, just went live earlier today. In the episode, which you can see below, Kojima begins by talking about how he wanted to do something new after Metal Gear Solid 5 in 2015, which is how Death Stranding came about. He then wanted to make a franchise, which is why we ended up with Death Stranding 2, and he then wanted to do something new again, which is why OD with Jordan Peele was conceptualized. 

"But in the last eight years, every day on social media, from users all around the world, people have been asking me to create another Metal Gear and stuff like that," Kojima then recalls. "Then, I fell ill in 2020. It was also during the pandemic, so I was sick and isolated during all of it. I even had surgery. And I thought 'I can't anymore.' I was at my lowest and felt like I couldn't go back to making games," the director adds.

Kojima adds that he wrote a will, and "realized people due." He recalls how he turned 60 last year, and will turn 70 in another nine years. "I hope to never retire. Having said that, if the users desire it so much, I thought I should change my priorities a bit. I still want to do new things, but I decided to make an action-espionage game," he continued. 

Kojima then revealed he gets "many requests" from Hollywood to make a film, but he always declines since he has his own studio to take care of now. He also highlights how he couldn't just leave game development for one or two years, or he feels like Kojima Productions itself "would collapse."

"I was in a tough spot. And I talked to Guillermo Del Toro about it, and he said 'Hideo, what you're making is already a movie. Keep going as you are.' His words saved me," Kojima concluded. Kojima previously