Hideo Kojima Has A Project Similar To Superhero Series "The Boys", Kojima: It's Just On My Mind

Hideo Kojima thought of a game similar to Amazon's series The Boys (photo: Hideo Kojima's Twitter)

JAKARTA - A world-famous Japanese video game designer, Hideo Kojima is well known for his track record of creating games. These days, Kojima Productions has a lot to work on.

Recently, via his Twitter account, Kojima revealed that at one point, he was considering making a game similar to Amazon's superhero series, The Boys.

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"THE BOYS," which I quit after 3 episodes of season 1. I thought I'd watch the rest of the show. Actually, I watched a few episodes that were delivered at the time when I was about to start a project that I had been warming up for a long time, pic.twitter.com/UpI00pUIHQ

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) June 26, 2022

The Boys is an American superhero web television series based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Developed by Eric Kripke for Amazon, the series premiered on July 26, 2019.

In a series of tweets he wrote, Kojima explained that his project would focus on two male and female detectives, who would later become legendary heroes. Because he thought there were similarities between his project and The Boys series, Kojima decided not to watch it more.

“Because the concept is similar (different settings and tricks). A friend (male/female) with a special detective squad faces off against a legendary hero behind the scenes. I'm thinking of Mads in the lead role," he wrote.

What's interesting is, Kojima has Mads Mikkelsen in mind for the lead role. Unfortunately, in a follow-up tweet, Kojima said that the project never went through its initial conceptualization, so it's safe to say that the project wasn't real, or only existed in his mind.

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Well, what I had planned stayed in my mind only, so I didn't incur any cost for labor, material, research, or anything like that.

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) June 26, 2022

Currently, Kojima Productions has confirmed that they are working on a cloud-native game with Xbox. On the other hand, the recently leaked Overdose game is still in the works.