Hideo Kojima recently announced that his upcoming games have found a new home. The Japanese designer and auteur, together with his company, Kojima Productions, will partner with...
I agree with every point you make except the conclusion that he’s an overrated hack. I was rolling my eyes through every cutscene of Death Stranding 2 (except the electric guitar fights which were incredible for the naked spectacle), but his inability to rein in his silliest indulgences is a relatively minor facet of his overall artistic merit in this medium.
The guy’s a certified auteur, and like most of them, he has some serious gaps in his repertoire. But when you play a Kojima game, you’re almost always going to play something completely unlike anything else on the market, and there’s a solid chance you’re going to have a blast doing it.
the criticism comes from a place where he has consistently missed his potential, and he is over rated due to this, it goes into hack status when he gets high on his own supply. if i didn’t care deeply for his work i would not care enough to have such a strong opinion.
his self indulgence in these accolades should not be encouraged, and he should not be given infinite time, infinate money, and infinite control on a project unless you expect him to continue to succumb to his problems of meandering story, overspending, and spectacal at the cost of the narrative.
he is an artist, a visionary, and a hack, and sometimes art is defined by its constraints
I agree with every point you make except the conclusion that he’s an overrated hack. I was rolling my eyes through every cutscene of Death Stranding 2 (except the electric guitar fights which were incredible for the naked spectacle), but his inability to rein in his silliest indulgences is a relatively minor facet of his overall artistic merit in this medium.
The guy’s a certified auteur, and like most of them, he has some serious gaps in his repertoire. But when you play a Kojima game, you’re almost always going to play something completely unlike anything else on the market, and there’s a solid chance you’re going to have a blast doing it.
the criticism comes from a place where he has consistently missed his potential, and he is over rated due to this, it goes into hack status when he gets high on his own supply. if i didn’t care deeply for his work i would not care enough to have such a strong opinion.
his self indulgence in these accolades should not be encouraged, and he should not be given infinite time, infinate money, and infinite control on a project unless you expect him to continue to succumb to his problems of meandering story, overspending, and spectacal at the cost of the narrative.
he is an artist, a visionary, and a hack, and sometimes art is defined by its constraints