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Del Toro "will never get involved in the game industry again"

After two bad experiences with Insane/THQ and Silent Hills/Kojima.

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If you were hoping to have a chance to see a new game developed by Guillermo Del Toro, who - as you remember - was involved with Hideo Kojima in Silent Hills' development before Konami decided to delay the project - we have bad news for you.

During an exclusive interview with Shacknews, Del Toro has admitted he will never get involved in the game industry again, also in view of the "tragic" events every time he tried to get close to it (in the case of Insane and Silent Hills, to be more precise).

"I joined THQ, and THQ goes broke. I join Kojima, and Kojima leaves Konami. I have decided, in order not to destroy anyone else's life, I have decided I will never again get involved in video games. Otherwise, I'll join someone and his house will explode, or something", he said in a mixture of bitterness and irony.

Anyway, his experience in the industry, albeit very short and troubled, allowed him to learn a lot about this medium and on how to use those precious lessons in his way of seeing narrative:

"I was in an apprenticeship. I learned a lot from Kojima-san, of course, and I learned a lot from my experience at THQ. I did. It changed the way I see narrative. We put two years of work in THQ".

"It was insane. We mapped it out, we did the viable, we did the outlines, we did the screenplay. We did a bunch of stuff. I know some of the tricks, or the stuff that I wanted to learn, I learned. Then I went to the side of Kojima-san, because he's a master, and I can gladly say that we are friends and I love his work and I will continue learning from him as a friend".

"But I am not... if I join another video game, World War III will start".

It's a shame that Guillermo Del Toro decided to break up with the games industry because of two very bad experiences. Our hope, of course, is that he will change his mind.

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Thanks to Shacknews.

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