Kojima wrote that Policenauts was also a meeting place: thanks to…

“Up to now—in Policenauts, for example, I used to give the designers very specific instructions [...] but this game was different.”

Kojima wrote that during those six turbulent years he kept creating Policenauts as if possessed, and that although the project many times came close to running aground, curiously he never gave up even once; he added that even today he does not really understand how he could concentrate for so long on a single imaginary world.

“I came to Tokyo in 1996, not too long after going through the Kobe earthquake. At that time, I was making a game called Policenauts, and when we were working on the Sega Saturn version, Mr. Mamoru Oshii and I met and had our first conversation.”

“So this is why I started going to dinners with cast members. […] But this kind of work style of mine started from here.”

“Personally, I thought that Snatcher was not a success.”