Kojima's fanbase remains loyally committed to overhyping his work though, including partaking in a sort of viral hype in which everything (from screenshots to little details revealed) becomes overanalysed to hell & back in order to create buzz & pretend they've discovered some sort of hidden message or something (who can forget the unintentionally hilarious GAF threads after every MGS5/Ground Zeroes reveal years ago in which psychoanalyzing pixels was pushed to an insane level? Now in 2019, hardly anyone gives a flying-f*ck about Ishmael or a metal fragment stuck in Snake's head).
I love how haters diminish the people who know the lore and know how to connect things.
A cancelled game, generic mech games with weird anime plot lines, a game that only got some western interest due to a cameo in Mega Man Battle Network, and Metal Gear?
Theres a reason most only know him for Metal Gear .
And oh boy, this type of hater is awesome too. So everything Kojima has done outside of Metal Gear is crap, so he only made one good thing once, maybe twice. He is a hack with good luck, everybody.
But let's remember some of his games:
Snatcher. A game that has a cult following and that some people utterly love and claim to be one of the best games ever. But I guess is just some "weird Blade Runner anime copy" and we call it a day.
Policenauts. Another gem, but is more "weird plot anime trash", so that is bad. You don't want animu in your videogames.
Zone Of The Enders. A good game, but again it has those silly anime robots from Evangelimoon or something. It's also just a good game, not a masterpiece, so another fail.
Boktai. Another good, fun and innovative game. But still anime, ewww. Is this Kojimbo japanese or something? What a freak.
The PT demo doesn't count, despite being awesome as fuck. And creating one of the most influential, innovative and greatest games ever was just a one time thing, so it doesn't count neither, obviously.
There's a reason everybody knows Kojima for Metal Gear, the same way that most know Bruce Springsteen for Born In The USA. They haven't done anything else remarkable outside of that, obviously.
Fucking hacks, I'm telling you.