To conclude 2022, Famitsu, one of the most authoritative Japanese magazines specializing in gaming, tasked more than a hundred participants. Among the interviewees, employees of a number of small and small companies that, of the Japanese market, opened to the whole world. Capcom, Koei Tecmo, Konami and more employees answered simple questions.
As you can guess from the title, the interviewee is Noriaki Okamuraproducer under Konami, who worked a lot of different works by Hideo Kojima. He was a programmer for police, a director for Zone of the Enders (don’t Kojima was producer) and a producer in addition to the production of some of the metalsaga’s majors.
To be clear, Okamura has affixed his signature among the minor chapters of this series. Metal Gear Ac!d, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel and Metal Gear Survive (together with Yuji Korekado). Any kind of thing really unbearable for newbies can be seen and discussed. Most notably the largest one in the world was Kojima.
After doing the necessary, even though long introduction, the time has passed by. The second question, when asked by the operators, was asking for a keyword for next year. There are several things, but only one item, if you want. According to Okamura, the key to the strategy of Konami in 2023 is to be the following: highly anticipated.
This is the hope that many users still have in their hearts in spite of death. We know that the idea of a return in style tickles the itches of many fans of the old works of Kojima. By the constant buzz of rumors more or less relevant coming from the corners and crannies of the web, it is the inevitable.
The key words used for the long-awaited claim are those that are very few. There isn’t much more than it can, except the commitment of Okamuras to the saga (let’s remember it, in the last few chapters) and that the rumors never revealed have spawned one another in all these years.
We must remember that long awaited was among the concepts that preceded the Tokyo game show by a few days. That event, you will remember, shocked us with the return of Suikoden, a JRPG series that deserves to be rediscovered. After the interview, Okamura is a game that does not need to be said yet? Metal Gear has nothing to do with that.
We also remember that Konami has already revealed something long-awaited and arrived in the coming months: Silent Hill. The series returns with a remake of the second book and several new projects.
The hypotheses are of the opinion of the table, therefore. Okamura could be referring to Memetsu or Silent Hill. If it are as good as metal products, we’ll keep on getting cautious.
On your issue with regard to this historic book that I write to you I believe you might sooner or later even Konami decides to do something but I hope we don’t know that you would want to attend official announcements. Only then will I rejoice or leave a depressed cry as it was for Silent Hill.
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