Post by stratogustav on Jun 18, 2016 16:05:30 GMT
After looking at the directors, designers, writers, and producers:
Hideo Kojima
Kenichiro Imaizumi
Hitori Nojima
Yoji Shinkawa
There is no doubt this is going to be a good game.
Most people would say that there is basically no content in that trailer, how can anyone be excited?
Personally, just to see those beings in the sky in that cinematic image is good enough to WOW me. You simply don't see that kind of shit from anybody else. It has Japan written all over it.
Now to the topic.
I'm going to do my personal analysis of the trailer just based on a few key images that were shown. You can make your own analysis if you want and mention what this trailer means in your opinion.
Overall, in simple words, we know it is going to be a good game because is Kojima making it, and that's it.
By the way, you heard it first from me
Release trailer:
Stranding: To leave (someone) without the means to move from somewhere. The dead stranding fish allure this situation.
The context: This is Kojima first relevant appearance since he left Konami, the once best publisher game company in the world. He has to make a statement base solely on this situation, and while the game will have its own meaning, the trailer at least displays Kojima's take on this situation.
Image 1:
Something small and insignificant can be huge to the size of the world when you put thought behind it. This is Kojima referring to himself about how insignificant he was looked as while in Konami, yet how big he really was to the world of this industry.
Image 2:
Norman Reedus represents Kojima himself, he chose this actor to make a statement. He was the actor he couldn't work with before because of Konami, and now he is working with him.
The handcuffs refer to his previous situation at Konami, since Reedus represents Kojima, those handcuffs are what Kojima had to deal with while at Konami, how he felt. Now notice how he is free, and how he is no longer handcuffed to anything.
Image 3:
The baby is attached to Kojima through an umbilical cord, which means this baby is his son. The reason why the umbilical cord is an electric wire is because the baby is his son technologically speaking. Which could very well mean the baby is the Metal Gear Solid franchise or even PT, but for me in the broad picture it represents his creative input in general, meaning it represents anything he creates as an artist not just Metal Gear.
Image 4:
He obviously feels attachment and love to his creation, a fatherly appreciation to it. He holds it with a relief feeling sort of way, he won't let go of it.
Image 5:
All the productions he has been involved with in the gaming industry has been tainted by the work of his own hands, the famous "this is a Hideo Kojima production", etc.. He has left marks behind all of this work, but he also has been marked himself as an individual.
Each lock or tomb on his chest represent each time he thought it was going to be the last he will work on a game for the company (basically the games on the main line: MG 1987, MGS 1, MGS 2, MGS 3, MGS 4, and MGS 5), yet he was locked and buried to continue working each time.
The oil that killed the fish or in other words many of his ideas while at Konami, is also the ink he wrote his work with using his own hands. This is why the baby turns into oil and this is also why we see hand-marks all over his body, because his persona as an individual is widely attached to his work and that's how he is recognized.
In the trailer he then proceeds to follow what his hands are continuing to mark. Meaning his work is not done and it is the work itself that leads him to move forward and to look up for what comes next in his career.
Image 6:
His defiant look represents his attitude toward Konami executives. About what they did to his baby, and how he stands tall against them. He is now free and not intimidated at all by their presence. He is willing to face them and show them that this time they can't take away his baby away from him, it is now his, and they won't be able to claim him.
Image 7:
The soundtrack is "I'll keep coming" for a reason. He will never stop producing his art despite the psychological stranding they had on him for over 30 years.
Whether the whole Konami controversy was staged or not to help Kojima, it is irrelevant because what matters is the end result, what the world actually end ups assuming or accepting out of all that, something similar to my take on The Bible.
I hope you guys like it, and you may say my imagination is crazy for thinking all of this out of that one small trailer, but that's just my personal opinion. If you have a different idea about the trailer don't hesitate in sharing it here.
Developer: Kojima Productions
Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
Platform: PlayStation 4
Release date: TBA
Genre: Action
