Hideo Kojima on horror games: 'I get scared easily'

When it comes to video game prodigy and Metal Gear series creator Hideo Kojima, nothing seems to be impossible when he’s tasked with a project and sets his mind to creating a world that fans can experience and enjoy in epic fashion. 

Now that he’s free from the controversial atmosphere he experienced with former employee Konami during his last days with the company in promoting his final MGS game “Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain”, the legendary video game developer is busy making his newest IP “Death Stranding” together with Sony Computer Entertainment and his newly established “Kojima Productions” company.

In an interview with IGN during the RTX Sydney event, Kojima pointed out that Death Stranding will not be a Horror Game.

Despite once making a collaborative effort with director Guillermo del Toro and ex-employer Konami to bring back the Silent Hill series with the now cancelled “Silent Hills”, the MGS creator is not looking forward to making any scary games because he himself is scared of them.

“I get scared very easily,” Kojima told IGN. “Actually, this is true of Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg. Because they scare easily, because I scare easily, it’s actually easy for us to make something that is scary, because we understand what is scary.”

“But in the process, we’re constantly imagining, like, terrifying situations so it ends up giving me bad dreams. That’s the reason why I don’t want to make a horror game.”

Like any great creator and visionary, Kojima taps into the unknown and something that isn’t perceived normally. That’s why his surprise precursor to the now defunct “Silent Hills” in “P.T” or “Playable Teaser” got everyone on their toes and presented Psychological Horror anew in a first person adventure game that saw a freaky mystery being uncovered by the main character who turned out to be Norman Reedus by the demo’s end. 

Several other similar horror games of that nature soon followed, with Red Barrel’s “Outlast” series and Capcom’s newly reimagined and brand new Resident Evil entry in “Resident Evil VII”.

Personally there’s no reason to blame Hideo Kojima – he’s human and he can get scared too… And it helps him become creative too. — TJD, GMA News