Kojima kuoppasi toisen projektin päästäkseen tekemään Death Strandingia

Konamin ja Hideo Kojiman yhteistyö päättyi draaman kera Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Painiin, ja sittemmin Kojima Productionsista tuli oma itsenäinen studionsa. Puljulla on nyt työn alla Death Stranding, joka julkaistaan 8. marraskuuta PS4:lle. Kyseessä on Kojima Productionsin ensimmäinen peli, mutta ei suinkaan ainoa, jota pyöriteltiin mielissä.

Julien Chièzen haastattelussa Kojima paljasti, että tämä toinen mysteeriprojekti kuopattiin, ja jäljelle jäi Death Stranding.

"In 2016 we were a handful of people in a tiny office, and in June of the same year we started game design, casting without even knowing the whole game. It's like a marathon, where the middle is the hardest part. The start is easy, everyone is full of energy, then in the middle you cannot see the end, and it feels like there is no end, and it's a terribly draining. But honestly, the closer we get to the end, the more we see that arrival, which gives us extra strength. I had many ideas and concepts, but to be honest Death Stranding was not the first idea, it was literally the last. There was another game that I had to abandon and I will probably never come back to it. So that is how Death Stranding was born."