In an interview with GamesRadar+ ahead of the 2026 BAFTA Game Awards, actor Troy Baker describes Metal Gear and Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima as a developer who puts “big swings” and creative risks above some need to entertain.
Baker, who played Higgs in Death Stranding 2 and has acted in dozens of high-profile games, says working with Kojima was a process of trust. “It was him trusting me with that role,” he says. “It was me trusting him to go, ‘You know where this story is going. I’m going to do my part and I’m going to hand it over to you.'”
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“I think that there’s a lot of people that are making games – and I don’t blame them – that, right now, are trying to razzle dazzle the player the entire way and make sure that they’re having fun,” he says. “After all, it’s entertainment. But I think that there’s other people who go, ‘I would much rather have the player walk away impacted than entertained.’ And that takes a lot of trust. That takes a lot of faith. That takes big swings only. And you do risk a lot, you do put a lot in the middle when you take that kind of philosophy in making something, especially of this size and this magnitude.”
“Hideo is still making games in very much the way that he made Metal Gear, where it is so conceptualized, and so huge, and so thought out that I think the only way he knows how to swing is big,” Baker says. “And when you do that with trust, and you surround yourself with talented people – not only in the cast, but also in the crew – and you still execute that, man, it’s a miracle. Truly is a miracle.”
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