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The biggest thing about Kojima, setting aside the actual quality of gameplay (which is still largely good), is that he is one of the pioneer developers who seem genuinely interested in storytelling in a way unique to the medium of video games.

Like don't get me wrong, there are a lot of video games with good stories, but frequently those are just well told stories on top of a game. Like they could be reasonably adapted into a movie or TV series without much issue because the stories don't really lean into the actual medium of being a video game. Like you could make a Snake Eater movie, but that movie could never truly adapt the Sorrow fight, because that is a story only a video game could tell.

Like as much as people joke that Kojima should just go make a movie already, that really doesn't seem to be what he is interested in doing. I genuinely think he wants to have video games as a medium to mature into a unique story telling platform in the likes of cinema or literature.

Now whether you think he is actually good at story telling, that's obviously completely subjective. And he has certainly made some narrative decisions that are certainly raise some eye-brows. But I can see where the adoration for what Kojima tries to do comes from.