He had a lot to do with it, since it’s pretty much built on top of other MGS pieces. It continues the story themes from the previous games anyways. He influenced the development to a certain degree too, iirc.
Death Stranding is pretty funny, by the way, since the story leaves a very strong impression in the end that Muricah is a shithole that serves the interests of a small pack of assholes and even after the apocalypse keeps tangling people in its web with lies and hypocritical bullshit. Pretty cool for a supposedly mainstream game funded by a mainstream corpo, I would say.
From what I’ve read, he initially wanted to have a more hands on involvement with MGR, but because of development demands for peace walker he ultimately only served as executive producer, and pretty much his only input was setting the expectations for gameplay and tone, and hiring the developers who actually made MGR what it is.
No disrespect to Kojima, but MGR is firmly a product of Etsu Tamari and Atushi Inaba, who wrote the bulk of the script and plot.
I don’t think Kojima had anything to do with MGR, but yes Death Stranding has some pretty interesting commentary.
He had a lot to do with it, since it’s pretty much built on top of other MGS pieces. It continues the story themes from the previous games anyways. He influenced the development to a certain degree too, iirc.
Death Stranding is pretty funny, by the way, since the story leaves a very strong impression in the end that Muricah is a shithole that serves the interests of a small pack of assholes and even after the apocalypse keeps tangling people in its web with lies and hypocritical bullshit. Pretty cool for a supposedly mainstream game funded by a mainstream corpo, I would say.
From what I’ve read, he initially wanted to have a more hands on involvement with MGR, but because of development demands for peace walker he ultimately only served as executive producer, and pretty much his only input was setting the expectations for gameplay and tone, and hiring the developers who actually made MGR what it is.
No disrespect to Kojima, but MGR is firmly a product of Etsu Tamari and Atushi Inaba, who wrote the bulk of the script and plot.