Dear Hideo Kojima, you’d better give us a proper update on your new Metal Gear-style action-espionage game-movie wotsit Physint soon, because for every hour that passes, I think of another unbearable title pun.
I’m not very Physinterested in Physint right now, a game defined by what it Physisn’t. Perhaps I’d be more Physinto it if Kojima Productions would share a proper outline and explore the Physintricacies. But this is Hideo Kojima, a man of *grunts, strains* Sphysint-like enigma. Still, at least we now know that Don Lee from Train To Busan is in the stealthy film-o-game, together with Charlee Fraser from Furiosa and Minami Hamabe from Godzilla Minus One.
In a livestream last night, Kojima discussed working with 3Lateral to model each performer’s face. He shared some early renders of Hamabe in-engine. Yep, sure looks like a face.
Image credit: Push Square / Kojima Productions
He also shared some concept art from Physint, which certainly underlines the Metal Gear connections. There is a man in a flapping coat with a high collar. Or half a flapping coat, anyway. I can’t work out where the coat ends and his utility belt ends. He’s got a lot of weird harness wrapped around his right shoulder. Doubtless, this is Tactical.
Image credit: Kojima Productions
Also, a rifle with a scope and a stock and a silencer. We can expect a mix of sneaky and open firefights, I expect. Behind the man there are tall forbidding buildings with a lonely bird visible against slate clouds. Hang on, the lonely bird is just a stray coffee grain on my laptop screen. Let me wipe it away. Ah, now I feel sad about the missing bird.
Is this sadness the Feeling referred to by the caption “Here Comes the Feeling”? Probably not. When will the Feeling actually arrive? In at least “another five or six years”, Kojima commented in May.
Physint is at least actually “in development”, now, following the release of Death Stranding 2 on console. Kojima decided to make a new game in the vein of Metal Gear following a recent illness. Here’s hoping the next trailer or livestream at least features more legible Tactical apparel. Physint, reveal thyself!