Kojima wrote:...It's an action game, an open-world action game, but it's really new. It's something new. There's so many things happening in the real world–in America, in Europe–everything is actually connected by internet, but we're not connected in the real world these days. I'm putting that in a metaphor in the game. So the player will have to reconnect the world in the game. You have a very alone and solitude feeling, but you're trying to connect.
Kojima wrote:...The key word is connection. There's so many things in between, of course, but the theme of connection. I also threw in a really new idea in the game: you're connecting the game and everyone's playing it together and everyone will be connected, as well, and I can't say anything else because Sony will be very unhappy.
USGamer wrote:(Kojima) revealed that the mysterious setting we've been teased with takes place "a little bit into the future, but it's a metaphor for the current [time] or something that would tend to happen in a couple of years".
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USGamerIt's gonna be weird and it's gonna be great
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