Solid Snake's Japanese voice and motion capture actor is keen to return for a new game, though feels conflicted about any fresh entry without the involvement of creator Hideo Kojima.
In an interview with Bunshun (translated by IGN), Snake actor Akio Otsuka reminisced about his deep attachment to the Metal Gear series and keen desire for Konami to make another entry — which may come as a surprise for Japanese fans of the series. Famously, Otsuka previously said he wouldn’t make a new game sans Kojima — a quote that spread around the franchise's Japanese fandom after the Konami/Kojima split.
Reflecting on that and his bond with the series' creator, Otsuka said: "My job as a voice actor is to do what I’m told. But when it comes to the Metal Gear series, it was created by Kojima, and I take pride in having helped bring it to life.
"So I [previously] said, 'I don’t want to do a Metal Gear that doesn’t involve Kojima.' Now I've said that, I can't take it back," he said.
Given Konami and Hideo Kojima’s far from amicable split, it seems pretty unlikely that Kojima will ever helm a MGS game again. When asked whether Otsuka had told Kojima that he’d like the Death Stranding director to make a new Metal Gear game, Otsuka simply replied: "I'll leave that to your imagination."
Looking back over his years of voicing Snake, Otsuka recalled that Solid Snake's famous "Kept you waiting, huh?" ("mataseta na") line was actually an adlib during the Japanese language recording. "It was subsequently used in ads too," Otsuka added, with David Hayter’s English rendition of the line becoming equally iconic.
Otsuka also recalled how surreal it was to have his real-life father, voice actor Chikao Otsuka, voicing Big Boss in MGS4’s finale, while Otsuka himself provided the performance capture. "When I arrived on set, my father's eyes widened at the sight of me in the motion capture suit, and he asked with surprise, 'Am I actually going to be voicing you?' It was rather amusing."
Otsuka expressed much fondness and empathy for Kojima throughout the interview. "He went through so many difficulties after leaving Konami yet managed to finish making this major game," Otsuka said, referring to the creator's subsequent project, Death Stranding. "After all, if Death Stranding had failed he could have easily ended up with debts that he wouldn't have been able to pay off even if he continued working for the rest of his life… So when the game was finished and they announced its release, I burst into tears."
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