The Japanese voice actor of Strong Snake within the Steel Gear Strong video games says he thinks Konami ought to make one other one, even when Hideo Kojima isn’t concerned.
Prolific voice actor Akio Otsuka – who has been working for the reason that late ’80s and voiced Strong Snake, Bare Snake, Solidus Snake, and Venom Snake within the Steel Gear Strong sequence – informed Japanese publication Bunshun that whereas he vowed by no means to work on one other Steel Gear recreation following the departure of Hideo Kojima, he nonetheless believes followers ought to get one.
Otsuka was requested about his working relationship with Kojima, and he expressed his admiration for a way he managed to maintain working after his cut up from Konami.
“After Kojima-san left Konami, he will need to have felt utterly misplaced, proper?” he stated (by way of machine translation). There have been even initiatives that weren’t completed but.
“So he constructed a small boat known as Kojima Productions and set out, dealing with all types of twists and turns alongside the best way. Sony got here to his help, and the sport that was lastly accomplished because of this was Dying Stranding.
“He went by so many hardships after leaving the corporate and managed to drag off this huge mission. After I take into consideration that, it brings tears to my eyes. In any case, we’ve been working collectively all this time.”
He added: “Kojima is identical age as my youthful brother, so he’s just a bit youthful than me. Since we’ve lived by and grown up in the identical period, our mentalities are very related.
“He’s able the place he has to guide his workforce, however he’d left the corporate to go unbiased and had no cash. I believe he was battling the worry of what would occur if Dying Stranding flopped.
“In any case, if it failed, he’d simply find yourself with money owed he couldn’t repay, even when he labored his complete life. It’s solely pure to be scared, proper? So when it was completed they usually introduced ‘it’s releasing’, I simply burst into tears.”
“Let’s make yet another Steel Gear recreation” for the followers, Otsuka says
Otsuka’s admiration for Kojima led to him beforehand stating on YouTube present Mori no Su that he by no means needed to work on one other Steel Gear Strong recreation if Kojima wasn’t concerned in it. In his new interview with Bunshun he seems to be sticking to this.
“Principally, our job as voice actors is to do no matter we’re requested to do,” he defined. “Nonetheless, relating to the Steel Gear sequence, it’s one thing Director Kojima created, and I take satisfaction in having helped construct it.
“That’s why I stated ‘I don’t wish to do any Steel Gear that doesn’t contain Director Kojima’. Now that I’ve stated it, I can’t again down,” he laughed.
Regardless of this, Otsuka does nonetheless really feel that Konami ought to make one other Steel Gear Strong recreation, even with out Kojima’s enter, as a result of he feels the followers would really like one.
“I actually do assume so,” he stated. “For Steel Gear followers all around the world. There are followers all around the world eagerly ready for it. So let’s make yet another Steel Gear recreation for them. I determine, since he’s making his personal factor with Dying Stranding, why not?”
Requested whether or not he had really informed Kojima about his want to see a brand new Steel Gear Strong recreation, Otsuka laughed and replied: “I’ll depart that to your creativeness.”
