kojima only does 'commentary' (hour long exposition cutscenes on kojima's politics and ideas), actual politics would be Socialism
I can't believe I'm saying this, but Kojima needs to be more hamfisted.
There is no level of hamfistedness which is too blatant for the media literacy of the average Amerikkkan
There's definitely room for a series of unskippable thirty-minute cutscenes where Snake, Ocelot and one of the booba women in a catsuit start a marxist book club and discuss various works in depth. Also add in Raiden and his talking robot dog.
And then they all stop and turn to the camera and say "Hey, you. The person playing this game right now. Capitalism is very bad."
Ocelot turns to the camera in MGS6 and unprompted states "this video game is a political statement against war and I am a homosexual cowboy"
Can't tell if a pure ideology ChatGPT algorithm wrote this or just a soulless neoliberal
Big Boss being compared to El Che by Sandinistas.
Ah yes, no politics.
It's only politics if it mentions democrats and republicans
Did you know the katanas wielded by Solidus in MGS2 have names
It's only politics if I disagree with it. Alternatively, if I liked the game anyway I'll completely misinterpret the point it made and pretend it wasn't politics.
I think that means Rising is the only political one?
He doesn't shove politics into his games. That implies taking an otherwise non-political game and adding politics. His games are just straight up political.
WRONG. It was originally about a cool soldier spy sneaking into fight robots. It wasn’t until Kojima became woke that he started adding stuff about war profiteering
Metal Gear Solid 3 didn't have any politics in it and it was awesome! There was this meowing guy who liked to spin his guns, a bee man, an electric guy, and some chick who's tits were about to pop out of her unzipped jacket.
The codec scenes didn't interest me so I just skipped it all, but my point stands, it just isn't political, sorry to burst your shagohod.
Kojima became woke in 1992 when he made the second Metal Gear.
I absolutely hate “open world games” and “RPGs.” These games have ruined entire generations of consoomers because every game needs to be open ended and have every choice of personality available or else it’s bad. You can’t tell a story the way you want without some illiterate “BIBEO FAME FOR ESCAPISM” loser crying about how everything is political because the character doesn’t like conservatives instead of letting the player choose if he likes conservatives a little, a lot, or a centrist(tm)
I fully agree, but it's worth noting that Death Stranding is "open world" without the consumer-brain both-sidesism that plagues other games. Your only choices in DS are how much of a completionist you want to be (100% is the correct answer), but the core game mechanic is just delivering supplies to isolated people in need.
Kojima doesn't shove politics in his games! He doesn't make protagonists of the political race or of the political gender!
Wow you're right actually hahaha. If Peace Walker wasn't about Big Boss and was about a woman character they would fucking hate it
Oh man Peace Walker where you play as Amanda and Big Boss was just a support character would rip actually
I have little explanation for this phenomenon bar I genuinely don't think these bozos have a solid grasp of whatever language they play these games in
You cannot look at a 90 minute kojima cutscene on the nature of life, war, politics and duty and think it's random bits here and there. that only tracks if you mix the kojima-isms in with all the actual words that have meaning and are left marveling at "Snakes taste good" as minor bits of commentary
What's wrong with shoving a little philosophy in Kojima games?
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