Kojima says he decided to make Physint for Metal Gear fans after illness in 2020

Players wouldn’t stop asking him about Metal Gear, however.

“Then, I fell ill in 2020.

It was also during the pandemic, so I was sick and isolated during all of it.

I even had surgery.

And I thought, ‘I can’t anymore.’

I was at my lowest and felt like I couldn’t go back to making games.

I wrote a will, too.

And in that moment, I realised that people die.

But, I turned 60 last year.

I’ll turn 70 in ten years.

I hope to never retire.

I still want to do new things, but I decided to make an action-espionage game.”

“I get many requests from Hollywood to make films, but I’ve refused them.

The company would collapse.

I was in a tough spot,” he says in the HideoTube episode.

“And I talked to Guillermo del Toro about it.

And he said, ‘Hideo, what you’re making is already a movie.

Keep going as you are.’

His words saved me.