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Ashley Bardhan

Hideo Kojima says he makes games because an HR person told him to be creative after he decided job-hunting is "a place where lies meet lies": "I was a Showa era detective trying to solve a murder case"

Hideo Kojima.

There is nothing I am more sure of in this weak, unhappy world that job hunting is a practice inflicted on us by the Devil himself, though I am surprised that Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima agrees with me. But the Kojima Productions founder and, once, Konami's wunderkind didn't exactly lead a charmed existence before landing in the video game industry.

An Automaton translation of an essay Kojima wrote for An-an Web tells us the director doesn't think much of his young adulthood, describing himself as having attended a second-rate university. He'd tell job interviewers that he wrote novels, and they'd laugh in his face.

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