Hideo Kojima has a secret message for fans.
You ever skip taking a shower for a day or two just so that the next shower you take feels even better?
No, I do it because I'm living in the hamster wheel of capitalism and I'm very tired
Same, baby
In Death Stranding you can collect Norman Reedus’s bodily fluids and throw them at people.
Jumping and peeing mid air is genuinely a speedrun strat for the release version of the game. It basically lets you fly.
Kojima games have always been full of mechanics and characters that are pretty obviously direct jabs at his own player base.
Hrm, after MGS, what does my NA playerbase look like?
Oh, a bunch of skinny, white, emo nerds with massive insecurity about basically everything in their lives?
Perfect, that's the new main character, and he gets a shonen character arc.
... MGS4 legitimately got me to get a portable cigarette butt container, and then also helped me to quit smoking.
What is a "portable cigarette butt container"?
Its an airtight container that you can fit in a semi-large pocket, which works as an ashtray, and you put cigarette butts in it.
In Japan, littering is extremely frowned upon, there are basically no public ashtrays, it is pretty common for smokers to stash their butts in these containers and then empty them out later.
Very different from the norm in much of the rest of the world where people just litter cig butts everywhere, toss them into garbage cans and start fires.
Here's Snake using his in MGS 4:
Portable sealable ashtray
A analogue film container was my go for this use.
Metal Gear is telling you to wash your dirty arse.
Seems like Metal Gear Solid is the gamer version of Disney's Snow White, because that girl motivated me so much to clean my room when I was a kid. Her and Mary Poppins. And so some extent, Pippi Longstocking too.
I grew up wanting the magical mops from Fantasia.
