Hideo Kojima is no longer involved with Konami and its projects, however he's still very much involved with "Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain."
And while fans were worried about his exit and its effect with the game's PS4 release date, the game developer assured that everything is still right on track.
Despite the unfortunate demise of "Silent Hills," "MGSVPP" is still very much alive thanks to Konami and Hideo Kojima's perseverance.
In addition Game Pur reported that the action-adventure stealth video game has already set its release date on Sept. 1, 2015.
In fact, Australian Rating board has already announced its rating for "Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain."
The game is under "R18+ Restricted" due to the "High Impact Themes and Violence, Online Interactivity."
With that being said, it seemed like Konami and Hideo Kojima were able to address the "copyright issues" thrown at them by Italian-based neurosurgeon Dr. Sergio Canavero based on the game's character, which resembles the said doctor.
According to Motherboard.Vice the neurosugeon, who is supposed to perform a real life head transplant, filed an official complaint against the "Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain's" developers.
"On April 19, 2015, I received in my email inbox an email coming from the UK from the account [redacted], containing a link which directed to the trailer of the upcoming video game Metal Gear Solid V Phantom Pain, produced by Konami in Japan," the report read. "The trailer features a video with a doctor with my physical likeness and a series of very violent scenes, some computer generated (presumably, they used an authentic video of me, which was then digitized, probably obtained from one of my TED Conference talks)."
"I do not have any suspects," he added. "I have nothing else to add except to declare my willingness to proceed against the people responsible for the facts explained here, which the judicial authority will observe as crimes."
