HIDEO KOJIMA presents Brain Structure #24 — Hideo Kojima x Kikuko Inoue

“Every game I make, I create thinking it's really, really going to be the last game I create. So I put as much as I can in and make sure I have no regrets.”

“But I wanted to see a Kikuko version of Lindsay. So I asked you to play the two roles of Amelie and Brigitte.”

“I was basically scammed. I didn't know anything. I didn't even know how recording worked.”

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

“In my first idea, Chiko was alive but has become a deranged killer. He was supposed to appear as someone violently killing people, kind of like Christopher Walken's character in The Deer Hunter.”

“And I would ask them to do another take, but they would say, there wasn't anything wrong with that take and everyone would kinda agree, but Kikuko, you would stand up for me.”

“We made the CG based off of Otsuka-san and Ginga-san's voices.”

“Your name will be Seventeen. […] There'll be an oi oi button. If the players press that, they get a like. But they have to press it at just the right timing.”

“Yeah, well, Kayumi-san is like a god to me.”

“You decided to become freelance at the height of your popularity. That's so risky, yet so bold.”

“In Spain, there was a huge line to buy the game because it was the first time that a Spanish audio game was released in the country of Spain.”

“It actually wasn't Amelie. It was Mama and Lakne, the twins, played by Margaret Qualley.”

“I realized you had to do it directly, which is my current style. If the actual person says they can't do it, then I will give it up.”

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

“With Policenauts, I made almost everything on my own. So it's really my blood, sweat and tears.”

“You may be playing the hero in the video game, but what if the girl you were in relationship with called you to ask stuff like, 'Do you like me?' or 'Don't you remember me?' We never had a character like that.”

“So, we could put audio on there, and now games could talk. No one had made anything with CD-ROMs yet.”

“I was roaming in the dark and you were like the beacon of light leading the way with your smile and everything.”

“We used like 500 or 600 eggs, but we couldn't throw them out, so the staff was going to eat them.”

“The boss is kind of mysterious. She's maternal, but she's also like the father figure.”