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After 28 years Metal Gear Solid is finished. Or at least that's what the internet would have you believe. After all, the mastermind behind the series, Hideo Kojima, has unceremoniously parted ways with Konami, the publisher who owns the IP. Konami has been wishy-washy in its future plans since then; the publisher stated in March that it would continue to develop Metal Gear games after MGS5: The Phantom Pain, but then the company's worldwide technology director Julien Merceron left last month and reports indicated it was because Konami would be moving away from console games completely outside of its football series PES.But let's be optimistic for a moment, shall we? If The Phantom Pain sells like gangbusters - and all signs suggest it's done well - and Konami decides to reconsider its alleged stance on console gaming, would we want another Metal Gear game without Kojima at the helm?
The first answer that springs to mind is a blunt 'no'. Metal Gear was Kojima's baby after all. It was Kojima who inadvertently created one of gaming's biggest icons by stuffing a Kurt Russell lookalike in a cardboard box; it was Kojima who fooled the world with a comically misleading ad campaign for Metal Gear Solid 2; it was Kojima who was responsible for the greatest handshake in all of video games. Metal Gear without Kojima just isn't Metal Gear at all.
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