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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach creator, Hideo Kojima, reportedly changed the game halfway through because playtesting results were "too good," and he doesn't want his work to be "mainstream."
The revelation comes from Yoann "Woodkid" Lemoine, who worked closely with Kojima on the upcoming game's soundtrack. Talking to Rolling Stone, Lemoine talked about his process both with Kojima and without and the challenges of writing music for a medium that's changing in real-time as players progress through the game.
Interestingly, he also reflected on Kojima opening up about the "problem" of having players "like [Death Stranding 2] too much." "That means something is wrong," Kojima told him. "We have to change something."

"Theres a key moment where we had a discussion, probably halfway [through] when we were doing the game, where he came to me and he said, 'We have a problem,'" Woodkid explained.
"Then he said, 'Im going to be very honest, we have been testing the game with players and the results are too good. They like it too much. That means something is wrong; we have to change something.' And he changed stuff in the script and the way some crucial stuff [happens] in the game because he thought his work was not polarizing and not triggering enough emotions."
According to Kojima, "If everyone likes [your work], it means its mainstream. It means its conventional. It means its already pre-digested for people to like it."
"I dont want that," Kojima reportedly told Lemoine. "I want people to end up liking things they didnt like when they first encountered it, because thats where you really end up loving something."
Woodkid added "that was really a lesson for [him]," convincing him "not doing stuff to please people, but to make them shift a little bit and move them."

It'll probably just be bad like the first one

What a hack. I like MGS, but hes greatly overrated.

so too many people potentially enjoying the game is a problem to him?

look Kojima, i love your work man but wtf are you on about??

Dude is a fucking hack.
He desperately needs someone to tell him when he's being a dumb fuck.

intended effect achieved Kojima is truly a visionary

you guys better apologize when the game comes out and you know you play it and enjoy it and say Kojima is a visionary

bro why do i have the feeling this dude was teased in school for being a conformist or whatever and now he has to be different all the time for the sake of it no matter what? lol

intended effect achieved Kojima is truly a visionary

you guys better apologize when the game comes out and you know you play it and enjoy it and say Kojima is a visionary

Only half of us will like it

I'll never dislike this Kojima. Too many great memories from his library of work.

the koncept

so too many people potentially enjoying the game is a problem to him?

look Kojima, i love your work man but wtf are you on about??

No, he's right. If you're not pissing enough people off, your work isn't great.

https://imgur.com/2tBGM4K

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I bet Kojima and Zack Snyder would get along well.

how did this happen?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d5d18725.jpg

It'll probably just be bad like all the other crap kojima's had his hand in.

So even if you hate his games, he wins.

We are not worthy.

As Western obsessed as he been for the past 40 ish years, I find it amusing he never put serious effort to learning English.

this is a great point actually

neil gets attacked by people who will turn around and praise kojima