Kojima also explained how the game could look real enough to fool your mom.

Beyond those projects,Kojima is also returning to his action-espionage roots.

“Of course, it will be a game,” Kojima said.

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I’m not sure how far we can take it yet."

“Because I became independent, I wanted to do something new with my own IP, Kojima said.

“So to challenge myself, I first made Death Stranding.

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Then, to create a franchise, I made Death Stranding 2.

And I wanted to do something even newer, so I started working on OD.

And since then, there have been a lot of new ideas.

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“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.

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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.

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And in that moment, I realized that people die.

But, I turned 60 last year.

I’ll turn 70 in 10 years.

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I hope to never retire.

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

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