In 1998, Konami released two games that Hideo Kojima worked on, one of which was Metal Gear Solid 1, arguably his most famous project.
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Hideo Kojima worked on all 3 of the Tokimeki Memorial visual novels, the second of which was released in 1998.
For those who don’t know, Tokimemo was a massively popular dating sim series (in Japan, the definition of dating sim is very different from the modern western deifinition of “romance visual novels.” They have a focus on strategy and stat-building. There aren’t really any popular games in the west that are like this afaik.) Kojima worked on a series of 3 visual novels, which came out in the years between the first and second main entries. I think they were pretty well recieved. I can’t find much about them because they are untranslated but I’m pretty sure they were typical romance visual novels, focusing on high school slice of life. Pretty different from the rest of his works, huh?
I guess we know why MGS is so romantic now
atp anyone calling big boss and ocelot brothers is being wilfully ignorant. kojima basically confirmed they were gay yet people still pretend not to see it
sksks yeah, i was surprised to get that ask on tumblr of all places. i mean there is something to be said about them sharing a mother/mother figure and big boss’ probable lack of romantic feelings towards ocelot, but on the ocelot side it is undeniable, there is nothing brotherly about how he feels.
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on the subject of it often being out of character for characters to be having carefully negotiated bdsm sex in smut fics: 90% of metal gear ships are insane toxic yaoi and would definitely be having sex that is neither safe nor sane and only borderline consensual HOWEVER otacon and snavid would be thoroughly negotiating kinks before during and after sex like theyre doing mission briefings on a codec call
honestly i feel like a way more ambiguous relationship is between raiden and snake (and to a lesser extent otacon since lbr he and snake are unambiguously romantic so theyre kind of a package deal at this point, not to mention raiden asking sunny if hal was married yet and talking about how much more attractive he got in his 30s lol), i feel like im always flipping back and forth between whether their relationship seems more familial, friendly, or if there might be something romantic there. theres an argument to be made that snake is like an uncle to him since solidus does call himself raiden's dad, and i do see where people are coming from with that, but on the other hand idk if raiden necessarily considers solidus his father, and given the fact that snake isnt blood related to snake and didnt meet him until he was already well unto adulthood (and that snake didnt even know about solidus' relationship with him until he was well into adulthood), i can also completely see raiden and snake not necessarily considering each other family (theyre still close either way, just a different kind of close)
no idea if this makes any sense at all but its kind of been rattling around in my brain so i figured i might as well put it out there ^^;
yeah i get u! i personally always saw snake and raiden as like. coworkers. but ur right that he does kind of seem like a relative or close family friend to the lil snake-otacon-sunny family. i don’t think i see snake having any romantic feelings towards raiden because he’s pretty solidly in monogamy mode by 2009, and i’m not sure i see the other way around either because i am one of three straight raiden truthers on here, but the adam warren comics do make me somewhat fond of him having a hero-worship crush on snake haha.
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