Under most circumstances, a picture of famed Japanese game designers Shinji Mikami and Hideo Kojima standing side-by-side wouldn’t be news. All you need to do is look at the games these two have in the pipeline — The Evil Within from Mikami, Silent Hills from Kojima — and the imminent arrival of Tokyo Game Show on Sept 18 qualifies this as something worth talking about.
Since we have no context, our minds are free to imagine the more ridiculous possibilities, like a collaborative project between Mikami and Kojima, or perhaps Mikami decided to make the Kojima/Guillermo Del Toro dream team even dreamier with his involvement.
I’m sure the story behind this is more along the lines of “two colleagues meet up to chat about the awesome things they’re doing for the horror community”, but coming up with other reasons is still super fun. If you have an idea, share it in the comments.
The image comes from a post on the official The Evil Within Facebook page, along with some Japanese text that mentions something about Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu and the cryptic message “What do you think Shinji and Kojima are talking about?”
What indeed!
