“The game industry took a toll on my eyes. I started wearing glasses when I was about 30.”
Kojima attributed the deterioration of his eyesight to his work in the game industry and said he started wearing glasses when he was about 30.
“I thought that I could never recover. I felt like I might not ever be able to create a game again.”
“But now it's my own company... so if I mess up, there won't be a next project.”
Kojima recalled that twenty-five years earlier he had incorporated a story and a message into video games when both were regarded as unnecessary. With the rise of mobile games used to kill time, he saw Minagawa’s literary activity at age eighty-two as the baton to receive. He promised to continue as he is even after turning eighty and to instill his memes into video games.
“People saying things like, I think Kojima has about three more games left in him. And I'm like, no, don't say that.”
“One thing I don't like about the game industry right now, is the clumsy addition of CG movies, without any sense of cinema. To the trained eye, it looks so amateurish.”