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However, he also qualified his statement: Im not sure how far we can take it yet.

Then, I fell ill in 2020.

Hideo Kojima at the Tokyo Game Show in 2019.

It was also during the pandemic, so I was sick and isolated during all of it.

I even had surgery.

And I thought, I cant anymore.

I was at my lowest and felt like I couldnt go back to making games, he explained.

I wrote a will, too.

And in that moment, I realized that people die.

But, I turned 60 last year.

Ill turn 70 in ten years.

I hope to never retire.

I still want to do new things, but I decided to make an action-espionage game.

Kojima added: I was in a tough spot, and I talked to Guillermo del Toro about it.

And he said, Hideo, what youre making is already a movie.

Keep going as you are.

His words saved me.

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