Hideo Kojima’s spiritual successor to Metal Gear, Physint, is being made based on fans’ requests and the aftermath of a health scare, Kojima says.
Hideo Kojima announced a new “action-espionage game” named Physint at Sony’s PlayStation State of Play event last month. And to hear the founder of Kojima Productions describe it, Physint sure sounds a lot like a new take on Metal Gear, the stealth series that Kojima created, but taken to its extremes.
In a new episode of the YouTube show HideoTube — the first one in seven years — Kojima says that constant prodding from Metal Gear fans to make something new in that vein pushed him to return to the action-espionage genre. A health scare in 2020 also sounds instrumental in Kojima’s choice to tackle a third development project.
Kojima describes Physint as “both a game and a movie at the same time,” hence the game’s reveal at the Sony Pictures lot. Kojima emphasized that Physint will be, first and foremost a game. “However, if your mother walks in and sees you playing this game, she’ll think you’re watching a movie,” he said in translated comments.
He then talks about the path that led him back to the genre, saying, “because I became independent, I wanted to do something new with my own IP.
