kojima’s whole thing is that he’s a willfully indulgent overthinker; if the title is clumsy it’s because he’s actually trying too hard to say something clever and falling all over himself in that pursuit (also, you know, not being a native english speaker), not that he picked words out of a hat. you can apply this to everything he does.
i don’t know what getting people he’s excited to work with in the game has to do with its coherency
he’s been trying and threatening to make anything other than metal gear for as long as he’s been making metal gear and it’s way off the mark to figure that he’s suddenly lost without it and just cobbling shit together in haste. haste reflected in, uh, barely talking about or showing anything in the two+ years since he left to work on this.
final fantasy xv is great