Is that really how Metal Gear Solid V ends? Kojima is hiding something [Spoilers]

A reddit user has translated the Famitsu article:

As you all might know, the Japanese gaming magazine/website Famitsu is known for having very close ties to the industry. I highly doubt that this article would have been published if Konami didn't sanction it itself. Here's a quick summary of what's discussed.

The majority of the article summarizes what we already know and feel -- that there's a phantom pain left behind after Episode 46, a "blank" as Kojima describes it in the novelization afterword. Whatever happened to revealing "the biggest mystery in the Metal Gear Saga," as was described in the game's marketing? It suggests that the actual message left behind after Episode 46, "the 'blank' or 'emptiness' that V leaves," seems to contradict this sort of marketing completely. "It feels a little wrong that Chapter 2, that MGSV itself, would end with Episode 46."

"Kojima is still hiding something."

[Godmars290]

Something you'll have to pay for?

Yeah, people are going to take that well...

Also, unless as I suspect Konami either has or is trying to talk to him, hire him back, because someone has finally realized what a mistake they made.

[Sly-Lupin]

Konami's getting out of the games business, so it's unlikely they're trying to keep Kojima. Odds are Konami is going to continue milking MGSV DLC as hard as they can for as long as they can.

[Godmars290]

They were effectively getting out of making video games sans a soccer title an Yu-Gi-Oh to go into pachinko, before SNK - or whoever now owns them - who were supposedly the largest game related company got out. So Konami might be reevaluating their choices.

Which means if they, if they are trying to keep or rehire Kojima behind closed doors, then because of how messy and public things where, then I can only imagine Kojima coming back having major say and control.

None of that could fix what's wrong with MGSV, even Konami for that matter, but its a thing. A possibility.

[DEEBO]

No it ended with MGS4.

[CryofSilence]

This is true. While MGSV has unresolved plotlines (which are somewhat clarified in the unreleased episode 51), it makes sense of MGS4's ending in regards to Big Boss's involvement. That is the true end of MGS.

[DimensionalSound]

Everything is resolved in MGS4. MGSV as Kojima has said, completes the circle.

The ending was wonderfully artistic. Anyone with experience in literature, critical theory and philosophy should be satisfied or understand the direction it was aiming for.

Mass Effect 3 had a botched ending--unless the indoctrination theory is true--this game does not.

[capn_crunch]

Good thing so many gamers have liberal arts degrees...

[EazyC]

MGS V is the skeleton of a fantastic game, the gameplay alone is a testament to that. I just can't get over the slap-dash narrative and wholly underwhelming conclusion.

[ThatEnglishDude]

That's how it ends. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

[zidane1341]

Nah. As a long standing fan since the first, they did a amazing job.

[ThatEnglishDude]

I've been a fan since day one also - and can admit that MGSV was underwhelming. Not gameplay wise, but narratively speaking.

[CDbiggen]

Obviously sarcasm