Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is an ambitious remake of the legendary stealth action title released on PlayStation 2 in 2004. It has been in development at Konami for some time, and amidst ongoing content drops including screenshots and teaser trailers, it was revealed that it’ll be released in full in 2025.
In a recent interview, MGS’ series producer, Noriaki Okamura, revealed one of the driving reasons why Konami resolved to remake one of the most iconic games in the series.
‘It Was Basically Our Duty’
In the most recent iteration of Play magazine (and circulated by GamesRadar), Noriaki Okamura sat down to talk about all things Metal Gear Solid. He revealed one of the core reasons why Konami decided to remake Metal Gear Solid 3 more than 20 years after it was first released:
One of the things that really sparked us to do the remake in general is because we realised that a lot of the newer, younger generation of gamers aren’t familiar with the Metal Gear series anymore.
It was basically our mission, our duty, to kind of continue making sure that the series lives on for future generations. After all, we leave behind much more than just DNA, as Solid Snake would say—but again, who is Solid Snake?
In the 2000s, Metal Gear Solid 3 became one of my most beloved games, and I looped the story time and again. It felt so ahead of its time, boasting an immersive, lengthy story, an open-ended operating system, and unique camouflage, healing, and survival mechanics.
All that will be present in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, but everything has been improved upon immensely for this ambitious remake.
Okamura raises a good point, though. The first Metal Gear game was in 1987, and the last major release in the series was in 2015 with Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. That’s about the time that Konami and Hideo Kojima, the creator of the series, fell out of one another’s good graces.
The team at Konami tried to release a survival horror MGS game called MG Survive in 2018, but it was am monumental flop.
It has been ten years since the last Metal Gear Solid game, and there being so much that came before means it’s daunting to a newcomer who just wants to get involved and see what the fuss is all about. Where do you even begin with a franchise this expansive? There are almost 40 years of history wrapped up in Metal Gear Solid.
Let’s hope that the Snake Eater remake isn’t the end of it.
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There’s other things they should bring back like Castlevania, Metal Gear Rising, 3D Bomberman games, and Bloody Roar. They should remake Lament Of Innocence next with Igarashi supervising and make a new Bloody Roar finally. Platinum still exists give them Metal Gear Rising 2 and maybe continue Metal Gear with Tomokazu Fukushima and Kazunobu Uehara. Konami has other things they can rerelease too like the Arc System Contra Hard Corp Uprising game and Nura Rise Of The Yokai Clan fighting game.
Bloody Roar bring it back then! give Eighting a big budget and bring back Kenji Fukuya and Susumi Hibi to make it just add a single player story mode.
Ok there’s a ton of series you’ve abandoned Goemon, Bloody Roar, Castlevania, DeamMixTV World Fighters, Adventure Island, 3D Bomberman, Willy Wombat, Botkai, Zone Of Enders, Far East Of Eden, and others they’re sitting on things hurry up bring those back.
They should get NeoWiz and Round8 to work with Igarashi on remaking Lament Of Innocence or Platinum and Igarashi. Platinum easily could take on Metal Gear Rising. Bloody Roar just get the original team together and give them a bigger budget I think Eighting can handle it again especially if the creators come back and add a single player story mode it’ll move units.
We know about Bloody Roar bring it back! While you’re at it tell Koei Tecmo to rehire Itagaki and bring back Ninja Gaiden and Dead Or Alive with him at the helm! Doesn’t Konami have a close relationship with Shogakukan they should make a crossover game with those IP.
Lament Of Innocence is the perfect start to Castlevania its the beginning it deserves more love. Bomberman 64, Land, and Jetters should be on the list for remakes or ports. MGR is literally right there for them to make IDK why they don’t? Goemon too I mean give Spike Chunsoft that to cook with.
Konami was reported to have a new Castlevania game to show years ago back in 2022 it never showed where is it?