The Metal Gear Solid series is no stranger to remakes and remasters, yet there’s one gaming CEO who wants to see the return of a different Hideo Kojima game, one that lacks a Snake in the lead role. Hideo Kojima is no longer part of Konami, having left the company in 2015 and turning Kojima Productions into an independent studio.
Despite this, Konami still owns the rights to the Metal Gear Solid series and has been re-releasing games in Kojima’s absence, the most recent being Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, a full remake of the third entry in the franchise. While the Metal Gear Solid games are getting their due, if Atari CEO Wade Rosen has his way, one of Kojima’s most underrated games will make a comeback too.
Atari’s CEO Really Wants a Snatcher Remake
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While many Kojima fans are dying for a remake of the original Metal Gear Solid or a complete version of The Phantom Pain, there is at least one person in the industry who wants a different title to be brought back. In an interview, Atari CEO Wade Rosen discussed how he wants Snatcher to return and would work on the game, even if it wasn’t a hit.
“I mean, I don’t know if it would do well, but I’d probably push it through and make sure we did it just because I would love to work on one of those,” said Rosen. “But it all has to be in a balance. If this company just became like “what games does Wade want to work on?”
Snatcher wasn’t the only title mentioned, as he would also want to revive Panzer Dragoon Saga and or Ogre Battle, two cult RPG games that never got their due in their time. There are a lot of forgotten retro games that still don’t have remakes or remasters, and hopefully, Atari will be able to bring at least one of these games back.
A Snatcher Remake Could Be a Huge Hit
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Snatcher is an adventure game/visual novel hybrid that takes a ton of inspiration from movies. It’s fair to say that its biggest inspiration is Blade Runner, as it’s all about robots that resemble humans that need to be caught. While the Replicants in Blade Runner are indistinguishable from humans, the ones in Snatcher look like the machines from Terminator when their skin is peeled off.
While it wears its inspirations on its sleeve, Snatcher is an excellent story-driven game, especially for people who love the cyberpunk genre. Some of Snatcher’s best twists might not work today, and it does have some dated elements regarding its treatment of female characters, but these are all things a remake could easily update.
In an age when visual novels thrive on platforms like Steam, a Snatcher revival could easily be a hit. Sure, Kojima won’t be involved, and it would be a solo Konami production, but the source material is all here, and it just needs some polish and tweaks to revive it for the modern era.