Direct quote 2023-06
“But if you say, "It's visually different from anything that exists", they can't visualize it.”
What it documents
Kojima explained the difficulty of proposing what nobody has seen: he wants to create things people haven't seen before, but if he says it is a cross between Robocop and Towering Inferno people will just combine the two existing visuals, and if he says it is visually different from anything that exists they cannot visualize it.
Source
Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds (documentary by Glen Milner; PlayStation Productions / Kojima Productions); official English SDH subtitles, 2023-06 (00:14:28,375–00:14:53,916). View source ↗
“I want to create things that people haven't seen before, but it can be difficult. If you say, it's a cross between Robocop and Towering Inferno, then one can combine the two existing visuals together. But if you say, "It's visually different from anything that exists", they can't visualize it.”