Hideo Kojima's return to action espionage was prompted by a health scare in 2020 and 8 years of fans begging for another Metal Gear

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Konami) Hideo Kojimahas spoken about his new “action espionage game” for the first time since its reveal, and has revealed one of the main reasons for its creation was that fans kept asking him to make “another Metal Gear.” “But in the last eight years, every day on social media, from users all around the world, people have been asking me to create another Metal Gear and stuff like that,” Kojima then recalls. “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,” the director adds. Kojima adds that he wrote a will, and “realized people die.” He recalls how he turned 60 last year, and will turn 70 in another nine …