He thinks he is the greatest thing since sliced bread. His name appears some twenty times the credits of his games. He loves to write his name 【小島秀夫】multiple times in nice big¹ letters on the boxes of the Japanese versions of his games. (Need a picture here!)

His well-known philosophies (that have been already hammered to death in the first Metal Gear Solid game, but that is not enough for him):

• nuclear weapons are bad

• you are not determined by your genes
• live, Snake, and choose life!