“I know that no one would ever wear a box in war, but I want to change the mood, relieve the stress and tension and control a little bit the feelings of the player by letting them calm down and relax for a second and then continue through the mission.”
Kojima explained that his games are stressful, with the constant tension of when you will be discovered while infiltrating, and that he does something similar to what Alfred Hitchcock did in his movies: because they were too serious and heavy he added humorous elements to relieve tension. He said he knows no one would ever wear a box in war, but he wants to change the mood, relieve the stress and let the player calm down for a second before continuing the mission.
“And this is something similar to what Alfred Hitchcock did in his movies. They were just too serious and too heavy for one person, to go through the movie for hours. So what he did, in order to relieve that tension and stress, was to add humorous elements. I'm doing something similar in my games.”