And Kojima is now gone from Konami.

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- HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) December 16, 2015

Looks like my guess that Kojima was most likely just burning vacation time before abandoning the sinking shit that is Konami was indeed pretty much the case, more or less.

Requiescat in pace, Konami. At this point, you won't be missed at all, at least not by me. It's a damn shame to lose Castlevania and Silent Hill and all, but... yeah, Konami is pretty much done now. Oh, I mean, yeah, sure, they'll probably still make money with all that mobile phone shit and the pachinko crap they're doing now, because apparently the Japanese eat that kind of shit right up, but as far as I personally am concerned, Konami has just been a corpse for a while now. Sad.

Silent Hill has practically been dead ever since Team Silent was disbanded. I like a couple of the later SH games kind of sort of okay, I guess. Homecoming and Downpour were not entirely shit (unlike Origins, which was entirely shit, at least to me, and is the only SH game I've played that I never bothered to actually finish), and Shattered Memories was actually pretty decent, I thought, but other than that, Silent Hill was pretty much over for me after SH3. The Room isn't quite as bad as people make it out to be, either (and, again, the same can be said for Homecoming and Downpour, too), but none of those really had the feel of Silent Hill to me. And as for Castlevania, though I liked the first Lords of Shadow well enough (but haven't touched the sequels yet), it similarly didn't feel like a CV game at all to me, and as such, Castlevania has been essentially dead since Koji Igarashi left the company. Hopefully Hideo Kojima can now get back to making original cool shit again, too, similar to IGA and Bloodstained, now that he (Kojima) is finally out from under the yoke of Konami in general and Metal Gear in particular. (For what it's worth, I haven't touched a Metal Gear game myself since MGS4, over five years ago, just to note.)

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Hrm. :/ Not quite sure what to make of that. I still have little interest in buying a PS4 at this point, but... well, we'll see what the nebulous future may hold, I guess.

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