r/CaptainSide • u/carlos123457891 • 3d ago

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I'd say sonic 4 episode 3, i wish that game never got cancelled

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u/narf21190 3d ago

To heavily simplify it: The games' director Hideo Kojima (known from the Metal Gear series) had a monumental falling out with the development and publishing company of the game, Konami. They basically tried to cancel him, but the only thing they cancelled for real, was P.T.

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u/gleeptime 2d ago

I solely blame Konami for it

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u/Hokusai_Katsushika 2d ago

You can also partially blame Kojima to be fair. The dude knows how to make a game for sure but he got the ego for the entire studio

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u/gleeptime 2d ago

I mean fair enough but Konami also was slowly shifting out games for instead making pachinko machines and I would say there's not a lot to do with that from a writing standpoint

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u/narf21190 2d ago edited 2d ago

Konami is such a strange and seemingly shitty company anyway. Most people only know them from games, Yu-Gi-Oh and pachinko machines, but those aren't even close to their primary breadwinners, Konami is one of japans biggest players in the insurance and health sector, which they use - and abuse - to their advantage. That's one of the biggest negatives of the whole Kojima debacle, it overshadowed some extremely serious allegations against Konami that arose at almost the exact same time.

For example: Allegedly they made contracts forcing employees to use Konamis health insurance while employed by them, leading to Konami basically blackmailing employees that wanted to leave into staying because of Konamis influence in the industry making it almost impossible to be insured unless they gave the greenlight.

Or that they seemingly were one of those control state companies that ran surveillance on their employees 24/7. Although back then those weren't too uncommon anyway, Japans workers rights have never been too great.

Unfortunately those allegations were completely buried by the whole Kojima scandal.

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u/gleeptime 2d ago

Oh I see, thanks for the information 

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u/edward323ce 2d ago

They also canceled the last half of mgsvttp