Kojima is a storyteller in the Homeric mode. Let me explain.
Pretty much every part of the Iliad goes exactly like this: "War is horrible and pointless. Ambition is bloody and pointless. Glory is the only immortality available to men, but glory is fundamentally incompatible with a happy life. There can't be joy without suffering because the inevitability of death is what gives life meaning. Anyways, glorious and godlike Diomedes, tamer of horses and killer of men was all like 'FUCK YOU!' and he swung his big sword at these guys and he hit them so hard all their blood fell out and their dicks exploded and it was awesome."
