“When I'm creating something, I kind of have two personalities, like a left-brain person and a right-brain person.”
Kojima said that when creating he has two personalities, like a left‑brain person and a right‑brain person: he does things by instinct — including visually — and accumulates good ideas as he goes, and sometimes later realises those ideas made perfect logical sense. In games, where some areas are constructed with logical feedback, he finds that along the way he had taken meticulous left‑brain decisions without noticing. Those coincidences, the happy accidents Jordan Peele mentioned, surprise him every time.
“When I'm creating something, I kind of have two personalities, like a left-brain person and a right-brain person. Even if it wasn't something I calculated or intentionally did, there are times when I'll realise something makes perfect logical sense down the line. […] Those are coincidental, or what you call, happy accidents. And it takes me by surprise every time.”