Laugh in vindication?
Kojima's always been held up by his fans as some messianic messenger that's far too advanced for us simple plebes to understand his brilliance that we'll finally grasp fifty years from now when his prophecies will be understood, when in point of fact he writes nothing but pretentious, convoluted, prepubescent virgin-esque fantasies dressed up as so-called thought provoking stories that attempt to explore incredibly complex themes and subtext. The guy knows how to design mechanically and technologically brilliant games, that's undeniable for anyone who's played them, but as a storyteller and writer? He's an absolute laughingstock.
He reputably wanted to initially be a filmmaker before he got into games. Good thing he didn't, because at least his talents in harnessing gaming medium's strengths are enough to compensate for the utter mediocrity in his inability to harness those mediums who are dependent solely on narrative, which if he attempted, he'd be mocked mercilessly on. There's a good reason he's a game maker; the industry and refuge of talentless hack writers, and not cinema, which while not necessarily a place that doesn't suffer poor writing, is nevertheless much less unforgiving of it because (aside CGI) it has nothing else to piggyback on.
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