Hideo Kojima is arguably the most celebrated video game director currently working. He's an auteur through and through, and there's nothing quite like experiencing one of his games, which many will jump at the opportunity to do when Death Stranding 2 launches in June, but a new game concept he's conjured sounds like a truly awful idea.
According to IGN (via Rock Paper Shotgun) Kojima discussed a game concept on his Japanese radio podcast, KOJI10, where time passing in real life would cause the player character to forget how the game's mechanics work. In this "forgetting game," the main character would lose their abilities the longer you go without playing. "How to fire their gun or what their job is," were two examples given by Kojima of things that could be forgotten. He admits that you would have to "play through it quickly," and maybe even "take a week off work or school to play it."
Kojima has long been known to blur the lines between the game space and reality. This concept takes it to another level, though, punishing players who don't play regularly. If you go a couple of days without booting up the game, your character...
