Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24941369-20140514153906/@comment-1504072-20160228152200

Weedle McHairybug wrote: He certainly did harbor such ill will with the NES version, even when some of the changes were for pragmatic reasons. He actually breached Japanese politeness to make clear his hatred for that game twice. And quite frankly, when he goes out of his way to erase anything not made by him and treat them as non-existent even when they actually TRY to keep continuity unlike him, that's essentially the same thing.

And I'm not even thinking extremist fundamentalism, I'm thinking more along the lines of how, say, Commander Red treats even those who fail to dodge his cat ("The last person to walk through that door lost an eye. Needless to say, he's no longer with us."), or how Ernst Blofeld does things with his henchmen. I also thought the NES version was "crappy." I'm not going to kill the developers because I didn't like it. What an unhealthy line of thinking.

Kojima didn't erase anything, he just didn't acknowledge things he hadn't written himself. That doesn't mean he "hated" the games, or that they didn't "happen," he just felt they didn't fit in with his story. So don't twist the facts because of your personal disagreement over his creative direction. It's very unprofessional.

Blofeld and Commander Red? This isn't even worth a response.