He has some depressing moments

• his dad died when he barely started middle school
• he was mostly alone growing up (besides his mom), and he’d always keep the TV on so he doesn’t feel lonely. He still does this today when traveling. Apparently it’s the very first thing he does when he checks into his hotels
• He didn’t want to worry his mom after he got fired from Konami, so he never told her about it. He wanted to wait until he finished Death Stranding to tell her but she died before learning about any of it
• Death Stranding was a reflection of his loneliness, but he wanted it to make it optimistic for others

I think he made a lot of home movies growing up, but I wonder how much of using TV to cope exposed him to all the western movies and made him who he is today