Kojima’s most famous video game sequence is probably the fourth wall-breaking battle with Psycho Mantis in Metal Gear Solid. It’s actually possible to beat The End easily by either killing him early on in the game or by changing the console clock, putting it forward two weeks so he dies of old age. A wise move, considering how awful it sounds. It was so dull that the team started booing Kojima, convincing him to rethink the section. The concept did make it into the prototype stage, but everyone who played it could not find any trace of the old sniper despite spending hours on end searching for clues. Once a player identified the location, it was time to set up the kill shot. Players would have to stay silent and hidden using their surroundings while searching for clues to help them discover where The End was hiding. The idea was that Snake’s boss fight with The End would take two weeks, that’s two actual, real-time weeks. Kojima wanted this realism to be part of Metal Gear Solid 3. The author’s books, The Master Sniper and Point of Impact, are about snipers embedded in the mountains trying to take each other out.

It includes weapons that were just too weird to make it into a game, story elements that were abandoned, and game sequences that were removed and turned into cutscenes.īut the most interesting tale comes from a planned boss battle sequence in Metal Gear Solid 3 that was so bad it led to developers booing Kojima.Īccording to the video, narrated by none other than Solid Snake himself, actor David Hayter, Kojima had become infatuated with the works of novelist Stephen Hunter during the production of Metal Gear Solid 3.

But there was almost a sequence in Metal Gear Solid 3 that would have gone beyond anything else-and not in a good way: a boss battle that was supposed to last two real-time weeks.Īs reported by Kotaku, the latest episode of Did You Know Gaming discusses content that had been cut from the Metal Gear Solid series, based on old interviews and books. WTF?! Hideo Kojima’s games have a deserved reputation for being unconventional.

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