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Bluerock wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote: Bluerock wrote: Hideo Kojima's original story will always exist, regardless of what Konami does. Any future Konami productions will not be part of Kojima's story. Konami can do whatever they like (have their "final say") with their own "canon," sure. But it will always exist apart from Kojima's universe, just as the sequel trilogy exists apart from Lucas's trilogies (to employ the over-used Star Wars analogy). I wouldn't be so sure about that. See, if that was truly the case, then any deviances from the plot would have Kojima going all Queen of Hearts "Off with their heads" to anyone who deviated even slightly from his vision literally (and I do mean the appropriate use of the word. I mean he actually would commit murder for extremely petty reasons relating to that). Same with Star Wars. Only extremist fundamentalists kill people over different view points, so that comment is slanderous. Kojima has never harbored such ill will, nor any real negativity towards MGR at all.

If you treat a fictional franchise with such religious reverence, that that's the only scenario you can envision when you disagree with someone else's creative decisions, then I feel very sorry for you. 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, w:c:dragonball:Commander Red treats even those who fail to dodge his cat, or how Ernst Blofeld does things with his henchmen.