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Editor's note: this article contains strong references to child abuse which some readers may find distressing.Oh Koj, what have you done now. For my fellow Metal Gear fans, this week's Quiet doll, featuring squeezable breasts, may have felt a little like déja vu. It's entirely possible to love Hideo Kojima, love the Metal Gear games, and at times be left open-mouthed at how crass and tacky aspects of them can be. When I saw that picture of human fingers squidging together the boobs of a fictional, near-naked woman, my reaction was a big internal cringe.
Metal Gear games are created by an entire production studio and hundreds of people, but more so than any other major series, Metal Gear is also inextricable from writer, director and producer Hideo Kojima. It is his personality that shines through Metal Gear's world: witty, intelligent, perverse, silly, a cinephile and otaku. Though the man himself is almost a cipher, biographically speaking, every fan of these games feels like they know him.
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