Kojima/Suda collaboration still alive

By Fred Dutton Published 21 December, 2010

Mystery game is "about 1%" complete.

Earlier this year, some rather tantalising news seeped out that Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima was teaming up with No More Heroes lunatic Suda51 for a mysterious adventure title.

The good news: the project is still a going concern. The bad news: nobody seems in much of a hurry to get it made.

In an interview with Japanese gaming bible Famitsu, reported by Andriasang, the other developer involved, 5pb CEO Chiyomaru Shikura, revealed that the game was only "about one per cent" complete.

The project was first discussed back in July, when Shikura revealed that the trio were working on the third entry in "a conceptual science series".

"Kojima told me that he wanted to make an adventure game," he explained. "We're at the still stage where we need to go to a secluded spot in the mountains and hash this project out, and thus, we don't have any of the minute details hammered out."

A quick bit of maths suggests that, at the current rate of progress, we'll get our hands on the finished game some time in 2052. Time to start the hype train, no?

Still, both Kojima and Suda are very busy men, so we're prepared to cut them a little slack. The former has Metal Gear Solid: Rising and Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3DS in the works. Suda, on the other hand, has shoot 'em up Sine Mora, EA survival horror Shadows of the Damned and Kinect spookfest Codename D on his slate.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • lostlain #1 1 year ago

    Snatcher, Snatcher, Snatcher.. Please.

  • chasejamie #2 1 year ago

    1% you say? Release it now and patch it after.

  • Pwnsweet #3 1 year ago

    I think the game being a Snatcher sequel is a given.

  • GamesConnoisseur #4 1 year ago

    1% complete? Sounds like they are still only at the drawing board stage and maybe actually still messing around with the title of the game, or the name of the main playable character if that!

  • GamesConnoisseur #5 1 year ago

    1% complete? Sounds like they are still only at the drawing board stage and maybe actually still messing around with the title of the game, or the name of the main playable character if that!

  • metamorphic #6 1 year ago

    LOL @ how this article says "the other developer involved" - 5pb is actually producing this game, which is the third game in their unofficial science fiction adventure trilogy.

    @others: Kojima has already stated this won't be a Snatchers or Policenauts sequel. It is completely new.
    Edited by metamorphic at 22/12/10 @ 02:58

  • orangpelupa #7 1 year ago

    Still, both Kojima and Suda are very busy men, so we're prepared to cut them a little slack. The former has Metal Gear Solid: Rising and Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3DS in the works. Suda, on the other hand, has shoot 'em up Sine Mora, EA survival horror Shadows of the Damned and Kinect spookfest Codename D on his slate.

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    so what 5pb do currently?
    5pb mentioned in start paragraph, then its not mentioned again O_o
    usually 5pb do the music? or visual novels like chaos;head

  • Quixz #8 1 year ago

    Give us Z.O.3 Kojima!

  • nuanimal #9 1 year ago

    Or 1% of a 100hr game... means I would be happy with a 1hr demo :o)

    Preferably not a 1hr cut-scene though.

  • PanStre #10 1 year ago

    Since Suda's so-called survival horror in fact turned out to be dark fantasy demon bollocks, I'm not getting hyped up for this either.
    Edited by PanStre at 22/12/10 @ 12:36