The team behind Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater would ‘love for Hideo Kojima’ to see the game – despite him making it clear he has no intention of playing it.
The remake of Kojima’s masterpiece, often regarded as the strongest in the series, is out later this month – and has since received warm reviews from critics despite minor issues. However, when Kojima was asked by fashion retailer Ssense if he would be playing the game, the MGS creator replied: “No, I won’t.”
This hasn’t stopped the team at Konami giving up hope that one day Kojima will one day experience the game – and that they’ve tried their very best to be respectful to the original team who worked on the 2004 version.
“We are not sure what he would want to do, but we want to deliver this game whilst being very respectful of all the people that we previously worked with,” Delta producer Noriaki Okamura told Inverse. “We would love for [Kojima] to see it too.”
Okamura was full of praise for the original game – saying that ‘there wasn’t a lot to change’. “Just taking that original concept without even changing it, the game still had so many good points and a lot of charm to it and a lot of emotion,” Okamura said. “There wasn’t a lot to change. The game still had a lot to offer even though it was more than 20 years old.”
One of the most notable changes is the introduction of an over-the-shoulder camera, which replaces MGS3’s fixed viewpoint. The result is a game that fees more akin to Meta Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain, but still successfully manages to capture the essence of the original game. However, purists looking to play through MGS with the original camera can do so via the legacy Mode – which also allows players to change the colour palette to the original ‘yellow filter’.
“We’ve implemented the legacy style not just for the users who already like the game and have played it before,” creative producer Yuji Korekado said to the outlet. “We would also like new users to, once they’ve already played the game in new style, then go back and play it in legacy style, and be able to experience it in a slightly different way. We would love to see that.”
Alongside the Snake Eater remake, Konami is also training a new generation of developers to keep the legacy of Metal Gear alive. With Solid Snake actor David Hayter waiting to return as the character, it seems the future of the franchise is bright.
