Halo 4 designer David Ellis has branded Hideo Kojima’s recent explanation as to why he wanted to make Metal Gear Solid 5′s characters more ‘sexy’ as “disgusting”.At the time of writing, Kojima’s original Tweet appears to have been deleted, it seems that the massive amount of negative reactions that came from the tweet caused him to take it down.
The tweets read, “I’ve been ordering to Yoji Shinkawa, character and environment artist for MGS V] to make the character more erotic, and he did it well. Recently I’ve been making characters this way. I create the setting thoroughly, how he/she spent early life, name, style, favorite phrase, fashion, action to stand the character out. The initial target is to make u want to do cosplay or its figurine to sell well.”
Kojima’s message pertained to the character Quiet, which can be seen below.
This caused David Ellis, who designs Halo at 343, to react strongly on Twitter.
Don't care if this gets me in trouble. This character design is disgusting. Our industry should be better than this. http://t.co/4CCaF1qNEP
— David Ellis (@DavidEllis) September 6, 2013
