Polygon:
"Hideo Kojima is one of the world's foremost game designers, the renowned creator of the Metal Gear franchise under Japanese publisher Konami. He began his career at the company in 1986, and worked on dozens of games there over the course of a tenure that ended yesterday. Kojima's departure concluded a three-decade career at Konami, putting a sad closing note on what has been a tumultuous final year in the relationship between the two.
Kojima is Konami's all-time most famous employee, and ordinarily, someone with his resume would surely have been feted by the company upon the announcement of his departure. But their split has been an acrimonious one, marked by gag orders, vague statements from Konami and insults to Kojima's legacy. How did it all go so wrong?"
"If you were to ask someone to name the best 3D platformers for the Nintendo 64, most people will inevitably default to listing Super Mario 64 or Rare's many collectathons from the era. But there's another classic game that we feel is often overlooked when it comes to the systems' best titles and that we think deserves to be mentioned alongside these other titans of the platforming genre, one that captured our own imagination when we were a kid: Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon." - Jack Yarwood
I liked Mystical Ninja 64, but the real gem for me is Legend of the Mystical Ninja on SNES. It's one of my favorite SNES games, and actually makes my list of overall favorite games of all time. It was one of the first games that I remember that introduced co-op minigames. Seriously, I lost so many days of my life playing air hockey w friends. The co-op adventure was amazing from start to finish. Great pacing, great boss fights. I played through it so many times w different friends.
Either Nintendo needs to release these on Nintendo Switch Online, or Konami needs to put together a Goemon collection soon!
and what ost ! very cool melodies with addition of instrument tracks according to the evolution of the level (maybe one of the first games using that)
Today Konami announced its financial results for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April and June 2024.
For people getting excited that Konami is back and will make more games we want now...the success is atributed to sports games and Yu-Gi-Oh. No mention of the Metal Gear Collection sales.
It sure would be nice to get a collection of the DS Castlevania games. Make it happen Konami. It’s easy money.
Silent Hill 2 is going to be so awesome - if you like the original game this is a must buy for any
Physiological horror fan - IMO this crushes Resident Evil Franchise - way to go Konami for this title in the franchise !
No sunlight that day, apparently.
They should release it on NSO's GBA lineup. The Switch has a light sensor afterall! (Switch Lite owners would be out of luck though)
At least he's where he belongs now.. Head of his own dev team & can have the freedom to create what he wants.. I see him & sony going really far with this team up
At Kojima is happy and free that we all know and Konami about the "vacation" https://www.youtube.com/wat...
#FUKONAMI
You are dead to us now. I will not buy another property published by this company EVER again.
Have fun with your mobile games, and pachinko machines. Way to treat your star talent.
#FUKONAMI