I've only ever liked two of his games. The dude and the sh1t he makes is NOT for me. I hear about new games of his coming out, and it goes in one ear and out the other. I forget the dude even exists until his name pops up. He's not a real game designer anyways. Like David Cage, he wanted to make movies, but couldn't make it in that field, so he settled for trying to live that dream through video games instead. But at least he doesn't badmouth video games and dismiss them as "lesser" entertainment like David Cage does. Kojima forgets though that video games need to have actual gameplay. That's what makes them video games.
At least David Cage makes good interactive movies. But Kojima deliberately makes weird things and deviates from norms just to be edgy. And his fans tout it as genius, when it is just annoying and immersion breaking.
I regretfully wasted 6 hours on Death Stranding hoping it would get better, but it didn't. What's really annoying is that there is a good game somewhere there buried under all the Kojimatisms.
