Nah, imho Kojima is overrated. He does weird random shit and people for some reason think it's genius.
I think Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation described it the best – Kojima's ideas seem like he just read the first sentence on a Wikipedia article and then got too excited with it to actually research how it works. Like the fiasco with the "vocal chord parasites"... language is actually made by facial muscles, not vocal chords. If you put a parasite on someone's vocal chords, the parasite would just hear the tone, not the pronounced words. And of course people defended him putting Quiet in the game because "it's Kojima, he does that y'know". Like she wasn't an obvious case of fan service and attention whoring to get more horny teens to buy the game, I mean c'mon.
I gotta admit tho Snake Eater was a good game. It just seems to me that Kojima lost his touch since then.
I think Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation described it the best – Kojima's ideas seem like he just read the first sentence on a Wikipedia article and then got too excited with it to actually research how it works. Like the fiasco with the "vocal chord parasites"... language is actually made by facial muscles, not vocal chords. If you put a parasite on someone's vocal chords, the parasite would just hear the tone, not the pronounced words. And of course people defended him putting Quiet in the game because "it's Kojima, he does that y'know". Like she wasn't an obvious case of fan service and attention whoring to get more horny teens to buy the game, I mean c'mon.
I gotta admit tho Snake Eater was a good game. It just seems to me that Kojima lost his touch since then.