Kojima Productions veteran Ken Imaizumi ‘departs’ following Death Stranding
FOUNDING MEMBER WAS A KEY FIGURE BEHIND METAL GEAR SOLID SERIES
Veteran Metal Gear Solid producer and Kojima Productions founding member Ken-Ichiro Imaizumi has left the company, VGC understands.
Imaizumi, who has been a well-known figure at Kojima Productions for almost 20 years, was a founding member of the new independent Kojima Productions. As corporate director, he oversaw all production on Death Stranding.
During the studio’s previous incarnation at Konami, Imaizumi worked on every Metal Gear Solid title since 2001’s Sons of Liberty. Most recently, he was producer for Guns of the Patriots, The Phantom Pain and Metal Gear Rising.
The reason for the veteran’s departure remains unclear, but one source claimed it was due to a disagreement with Kojima Productions’ other directors.
Significantly, Imaizumi – usually a common face at Kojima Productions’ public events and on social media – was absent from Hideo Kojima’s recent promotional world tour for Death Stranding.
Neither Kojima Productions nor Imaizumi responded to requests for comment on this story.
Ken Imaizumi (left) during a visit by Conan O’Brien in September.
Is it true that you throw peepee and poopoo grenades at these ghosts or whatever they are in this game?
Pretty sure I read shit like this in Oblivion threads on /v/.Yesterday I had the most intense experience. I was on a mountain in yet unexplored area and got caught by BTs. Sam was bleeding out with no stamina left, BB was in a critical condition, lost most of the cargo, everywhere around me lethal fall and the black goo whale was chasing after me. The thing even caught me at some point and I have no idea how I managed to get away. At that point I was halfway to my destination so I wasn't sure whether to go back or keep marching into unknown with limited supplies, busted BB and no Chiral Network. By some miracle I still had the one package that I needed to deliver for the quest. I decided to go forward and had just enough rope left to scale down the mountain without dying.
10/10 GOTY
Pretty sure I read shit like this in Oblivion threads on /v/.
Is it true that you throw peepee and poopoo grenades at these ghosts or whatever they are in this game?
Is it true that you throw peepee and poopoo grenades at these ghosts or whatever they are in this game?
You can throw them at people too, but they just slip around in them.
Is it true that you throw peepee and poopoo grenades at these ghosts or whatever they are in this game?
What higher-ups?
So intense experiences in this game come from taking a hike in the mountain high on drugs seeing flying whales and risking fall on a precipice.Yesterday I had the most intense experience. I was on a mountain in yet unexplored area and got caught by BTs. Sam was bleeding out with no stamina left, BB was in a critical condition, lost most of the cargo, everywhere around me lethal fall and the black goo whale was chasing after me. The thing even caught me at some point and I have no idea how I managed to get away. At that point I was halfway to my destination so I wasn't sure whether to go back or keep marching into unknown with limited supplies, busted BB and no Chiral Network. By some miracle I still had the one package that I needed to deliver for the quest. I decided to go forward and had just enough rope left to scale down the mountain without dying.
10/10 GOTY