Director’s Cut(s): You are the True Director of Hideo Kojima Games

Support me on Patreon for exclusive content, works cited, podcasts, Q&As, and more! Follow FSP on Twitter: At the end of this month, lucky PS5 owners will get their hands on DEATH STRANDING: THE DIRECTOR’s CUT. In this brief electronic virtual essay, join Jorin Lee of Futurasound Productions as he walks us through each Hideo Kojima Production, to explain why the subject of ’Directors Cuts’ and, in general, being ’unfinished’ is, ironically, the secret to Kojima’s considerable authorial success. *************** Death Stranding is a sci-fi third-person open-world action-adventure game developed by Kojima Productions and released by Sony for the PlayStation 4 on November 8, 2019. The first game by the reformed Kojima Productions (now an independent studio unaffiliated with Konami), Death Stranding takes place in the near-future as the world is ravaged by a cataclysmic supernatural phenomenon known as “death stranding“, leaving cities isolate