{"id":59987,"date":"2026-02-15T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=59987"},"modified":"2026-02-14T21:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:31:47","slug":"this-is-a-kojima-glazing-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=59987","title":{"rendered":"This is a Kojima Glazing Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hideo Kojima has made lots of games and most of those games are absolute bangers. Metal Gear Solid 1 and 3 are seen as masterpieces by many. I personally love 2, 4, and 5 as well but their receptions were a bit more mixed. Regardless I think it\u2019s safe to say that the Metal Gear franchise as a whole has a home in the heart of many gamers. At least those of us of a certain age.<\/p>\n

One quick note I should make is that I haven\u2019t played Snatcher or Policenauts. I\u2019ve heard good things but I\u2019m writing about the bigger more widely released titles.<\/p>\n

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Kojima\u2019s games are all a bit quirky. His main villains tend to scenery munch like a soap opera antagonist. They also have some of the simultaneously lamest and best names ever created like \u201cShoot Gunman.\u201d His protagonists and antagonists both tend to have super powers of some sort, though they\u2019re explained to be technological advancements or biological anomalies. In Metal Gear there\u2019s nanomachines that grant various enhancements as well as supernatural abilities like those of Psycho Mantis and his father, the Sorrow. In Death Stranding there\u2019s future tech that is more diverse than NANO MACHINES SON, but also contains the DOOMS mutations that are mostly biological in origin. Basically he creates anime baddies and paints them with a coat of \u201ckind of close to reality\u201d paint and ships them out. The crazy thing is that it works.<\/p>\n

Revolver Ocelot is genuinely one of the best written characters of all time. Depending on what you believe he\u2019s either an incredible anti-hero or one of very few incredibly anti-villain. Snake is a whitebread Heroman\u2122<\/strong> but on multiple occasions he has shown true courage and conviction when it mattered. Big Boss is an onion of a man, not unlike Shrek. Layers upon layers of depth to his thoughts, plans, and motivations. Big Boss\u2019s actions during Metal Gear Solid 3 are without a doubt heroic and tragic but he veers of the path of righteousness because of the siren call of \u201cpeace\u201d by force. Higgs might be a silly lil\u2019 edgelord but you believe in his conviction and he presents as a clear primary threat in a world that is rife with literal monsters. And Sam is a psychologically and physically scarred man with the world\u2019s fate thrust upon his shoulders. Basically, Kojima has a good idea of what it is that makes up a good character.<\/p>\n

The stories he tells with those characters are quite lauded too. Even games that fans tend to think of as weaker entries like Metal Gear Solid 2 have stories that people enjoyed and appreciated. Death Stranding 1 and 2 are more divisive but it\u2019s my article and I\u2019ve decided that those games are good. Which all makes it even more of a shame that his hands got swatted away from the Silent Hill franchise when Konami decided that they were more interested in pachinko machines than game production. Like, I know Kojima is a pompous dickhead but he made good video games. Please let him bully a bunch of overworked, underpaid staff into pushing a game to triple its budget and 2 years past its deadline. It would benefit me and that\u2019s all I care about. >:(<\/p>\n

The mad man makes beautiful products and I look forward to their release every time. I know that I\u2019m bound to be disappointed at some point in the future, but for the time being I have a creator in video games that I can count on for a good time. Like Nicholas Cage and Tim Curry in movies. Maybe they fit the part, maybe not. No matter what, it\u2019s going to be a fun watch.<\/p>\n

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Hideo Kojima has made lots of games and most of those games are absolute bangers. Metal Gear Solid 1 and 3 are seen as masterpieces by many. I personally love 2, 4, and 5 as well but their receptions were a bit more mixed. Regardless I think it\u2019s safe to say that the Metal Gear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethanirl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59989,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59987\/revisions\/59989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}