Henry Spencer wrote:
I can see it being a sorta 'sister' project, like what Policenauts was to Snatcher, you know? But not a direct sequel of either Policenauts or Snatcher.
That's what I meant when I said a continuation of Snatcher that wasn't based around the Snatcher series. I'm a very big fan of both Kojima and Suda, so this is a dream come true for me. Thing is, whenever I
really hope for something in Project "S", a report comes out suggesting that it'll make it into the game.
I'm sure that I posted a comment on Junker HQ about two months before Project "S" was announced, saying that a Kojima/Suda continuation of Snatcher would have been my ideal game (I've tried quite desperately to find that post, before). It was something I thought of when I was playing killer7 for the first time, as I believe that the direct, linear gameplay (with occasional first-person shooting) would work extremely well in a new Snatcher game.
A more provable example of me hoping for something, before hints of it appearing in Project "S" appeared is my post about hoping Shinji Mikami gets involved (in the "Clover becomes SEEDS" topic), before the Grasshopper Manufacture press conference was announced, with both Hideo Kojima and Shinji Mikami appearing as special guests.
I'm not superstitious/wacko enough to believe that there was any kind of psychic connection, or that Kojima Productions are basing their ideas on my posts. It's just a series of strange coincidences, which makes my belief that Project "S" will have a connection to Snatcher all the more interesting.
EDIT- Reading through this topic makes me aware that I haven't posted all the clues that this may be related to Snatcher, in this topic yet.
- When Suda and Kojima first met, Suda said he was a big fan of Snatcher (a possible reason for the collaboration)
- In the HideChan/Kojima Productions Report, in which Project "S" was announced, it was implied that "S" has some relation to the title of the game (
Snatcher)
- Hideo Kojima told Edge that the game was originally planned to be a text-based adventure, but he's unsure if an idea like that will sell to today's game players
- Project "S" is supposed to be developed for the Wii. A console where it is very easy to change a standard NES-style controller into a pointing device (useful for switching between adventure mode and shooting mode)
- Kojima has said that this is an idea that he (not Suda) has had for around 10 years (when he might have been considering bringing back other series' than MetalGear)
- Goichi Suda has a history of developing many violent, story-driven games based around investigation
- Last year, Kojima Productions held an online survey to find out if fans wanted new versions of some of their old games (although neither Snatcher or Policenauts came top in the poll, it shows Kojima Productions are considering bringing back their old series')
I think there were more, or I doubt I would have been so damned sure about this, but I can't remember much of it.