The fierce battle for streaming rights rages on, and it looks like Disney+ has conquered when it comes to acquiring exclusivity on Hideo Kojima’s hotly anticipated documentary. Announced a little while ago – and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this summer – Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds is scheduled to release globally Spring 2024.
The feature documents the ex-Konami auteur’s rise from the ashes, as he founded a new company following his heavily publicised departure from the Metal Gear Solid publisher. Kojima went on to sign a publishing deal with PlayStation, where he developed the bold hiking delivery adventure Death Stranding. A sequel is planned for PS5 in the future.
In addition to detailing the industry icon’s influences and thought processes, it’ll also include “shots from the early days of our independent studio, memories from my childhood, and my creative journey”. In case you missed it earlier in the year, you can check out the first trailer from the documentary above.
[source engadget.com]
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Nothing will ever make me sub to Disney+.. the company has become such hot garbage.. sucks because the documentary sounds awesome
Finally. Something new on Disney+ I actually want to watch that isn't Dug Days or Andor.
@WolfyTn Same here, a few shows I wouldn't mind watching like The Bear and this documentary but with Disney it's all about quantity over quality.
@RBMango Ah a fellow Dug fan
@AdamNovice Up is probably my favorite movie ever and the best boy Dug is one of the bigger reasons why.
Oh man, I can’t wait!
In the meantime, jeez are the Kojima Ruse communities giving us plenty to watch!
It looks so cool! I will be on a friend’s sofa watching this and patiently waiting for DS2 news.
Odd location for a Death Stranding documentary.
It was a brilliant game I thought. But I’m a complete sucker for something original
@WolfyTn And how can you know that if you haven't watched the programmes?
That's a shame. No money passes from me to Disney.
It is going to be super pretentious.
I gave Death Stranding a try for a few hours. It was about walking. The monsters couldn't really be fought. It was a giant waste of my time.
To be fair, MGS bordered on bizarre at times, but someone at Konami made sure the gameplay was there and the story beats were great and artsy.
So, I might skip this documentary😂
@RBMango UP is probably my favourite Pixar film. The music is timeless.
@Mikey856 Walking simulators and asymmetric multiplayer are in no way original.
@Joyfultoad @evildave333 well now how can anyone possibly say that. The man created MGS.. find me a comparable game bro lol
@Mikey856 Don't lump me in with that comment. I got no beef with MGS.
@RBMango Andor was great
Geoff Keighley watching this over and over.
Yah, no thanks, Im really tired of streaming services...
@MightyDemon82 The Bear is an amazing show, both seasons are great.. I watched them on their native ‘Hulu’ though.. no Disney+ needed
@Ooccoo_Jr I can ‘possibly know’ because I had a 3 month free trial to Disney+ that ended a couple of months back and even my kids (9 and 11yo) didn’t watch it
@WolfyTn
The high seas are warm my friend.
@evildave333 100% Agreed. Especially on the pretentious storytelling front. The dude's hubris is insane, and I genuinely believe his legacy is extremely overhyped. Aside from MGS 1 being an interesting gameplay loop at the time.
Last thing I want to do is watch a documentary on the guy further hyping and indulging that hubris.
I enjoyed MGS1 (and the beginning of MGS2), but that's about it.
And there is no way in hell, I'll ever subscribe to Disney+ again.
@evildave333
Yeah, I can barely remember any of the gameplay, from MGS4. Just one boss fight. Other than that, I just remember how painfully long and annoying the cutscenes were. Like a pointless scene of the little girl frying eggs, etc.
I don't remember how long the game was, but it felt like 80 procent of the running time, was spent with those damn cutscenes.
@EfYI Yeah Death Stranding was a game I tried to get into, and wanted to get into, but I just couldn't. The story and explanation behind everything was too weird, and I just couldn't connect to it. That and the gameplay was basically hiking delivery boy simulator. I know you can eventually do more later, but it takes so much time to get there I just couldn't be bothered.
No not the D word
Disney+ home of shallow documentaries. I'm a huge MGS fan but I acknowledge it's flaws and Kojima's overinflated ego.
Kojima should challenge himself to make a game on a super tight budget and release schedule. If he is really that great he should flourish with such constraints.
Sorry @get2sammyb - for us internationals (AU), what months roughly are “Spring 2024” as a release window, like March-May is that?
This man is so full of himself... I hope he goes Hollywood and never comes back.
At this point he is only using game budgets to pay his "friends" and make movie industry connections.
I can think of five, nah... TEN devs in Japan that deserve at least half the budget the so-called auteur gets.
Konami was right all along.
@evildave333 and he objectively ruined MGS2. It went downhill the moment the tanker sunk and replaced Snalke with a femboy nobody liked until the memetastic Revengeance.
Exclusively on Disney+ and Pirate Bay*
@EfYI And it is probably one of my favorite games ever. Interesting how such a game can be so divisive. Few as much as this one.
@Casco
What do you like about that game?
Oh, if you like gameplay centered on traversal, there's this fun comedy game about walking that's coming. Was in a state of play.
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