I’m really fond of the Brainy Gamer, mostly because Michael Abbott’s posts almost always live up to the title of the blog; this week, he tackled the question of ‘genius’ and auteurs, amongst a lot of MGS 4 talk (especially in reference to Citizen Kane). Abbott looks at the parallels between D.W. Griffith (director of Birth of a Nation and Intolerance, among a lot of others) and Kojima Hideo of Metal Gear fame. Leaving aside the question of whether Kojima ‘is’ a genius (at the very least, he is an auteur), Abbott draws parallels between the two, especially in terms of a ‘blind spot’: