With many such successes under his belt, Kojima finally has the means to see his dream come true by way of not only the upcoming A24 Death Stranding Film but also a Death Stranding anime, as revealed in an interview with Vogue Japan that was spotted by VGC.
Then, almost as an aside, Kojima dropped the existence of the Death Stranding anime, saying: “In fact, we are also currently working on an anime adaptation.”
But that isn’t all Kojima had to say about the world of games, and how they might translate to – and eventually merge – with film.
"Because I have no preconceived ideas about games, I naturally began to use the knowledge and techniques I gained from novels and movies in game development."
“[I]n the future, the boundary between games and movies will disappear. And that is what I am aiming for myself.” Kojima said, but sees it as a multi-step process, beginning with games:
Arguably, we have seen the first tentative steps of this in the 2021 Unreal Engine 5 Matrix Awakening demo, which saw actor Keanu Reeves being swapped for his digital incarnation between cuts.
“For example, a game where people watching the screen from behind while playing the game will mistake it for a movie. By using the same assets and creators as the movie, we are planning to create such a work.”
While VR has been a thing for a long time, due to the nature of stereoscopic 3D which has to render a frame twice from different perspectives, the fidelity of VR games has not been exactly breathtaking, owing to the strain on hardware.
For VR games to be financially viable, developers need to target these low-powered devices, but technology continues to improve all the time, and Kojima sees a bright future for VR.
Being so married to film and the way games have been developed for the last few decades, Kojima doesn’t reckon it will be him that will forge ahead into these parts unknown saying: "It is not our generation, who are accustomed to traditional media, that will create new things with these media, but the coming generation."
The first Death Stranding was certainly polarising for many, with apparently "60 per cent of testers saying it 'was a terrible game.'" as noted by Kojima in an interview for Edge Magazine and reported on by GamesRadar.
Still, after the press got to play 30 hours of Death Stranding 2, it’s certain that the game is still as odd and cerebral as ever.
As such, the future of games could be weird, but certainly wonderful.
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