https://www.gamespot.com/articles/kojima-has-a-big-fan-in-remedys-sam-lake/1100-6459987/

Sam Lake, the writer and director behind games like Alan Wake and Quantum Break along with the upcoming Control, feels a kinship with Hideo Kojima. He expressed admiration for Kojima and games that allow for unique authorial voices in a recent interview with GameSpot.

"I love it, that we have auteurs and the possibility of just trusting your own vision and going with it," he said. "Kojima is brilliant, I feel. I still don't know what [Death Stranding] is really about, but I'm really interested to see where he's taking it. The more that there are creative visions, and strong visions, and opportunities for creative people to express themselves, the more benefit it is to the whole games industry. It's an opportunity to be inspired and try out new things."