With a movie, it's probably easier to sustain intensity and seriousness over the 90-minute duration. But in an open-world game it becomes exhausting, demotivating and even uninteresting for the player.
There are so many games where you fight aliens or zombies, and they have very high-fidelity graphics, but they don't ask the question of why the events are happening.
My parents were born in the 1930s, and they experienced the air raids on Tokyo.
In any game, you have an enemy coming at yourself that you have to shoot. If you go back to 'Space Invaders,' they shoot at you when they come at you, so how are you going to protect yourself? You're going to shoot, and that is a typical videogame.
'Metal Gear Solid' is, for the most part, an infiltration game. You go somewhere, you execute your mission, then you go back. Those are your actions as the player.
My games are rather stressful games, where you have to play for a long time.
One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.
I don't really want to be a celebrity.
Japanese players do not like being thrown into an arena in which they are given very little instruction. You can head in any direction, 360 degrees. They say, 'What am I supposed to do? Give me hints. Provide me service instead of just throwing me into this arena.'
My goal is to make a player think, 'I want to reenter this world of lies tomorrow.'
Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.
What I'm really trying to do is create unique characters.
Even when people abroad see me, I'm often asked about a 'Zone of the Enders' sequel.
In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought to question this, maybe even criticise it.
Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.
Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle.
People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.
As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.
There are so many books and movies I like; I never mention specific ones.
Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.
