{"id":88909,"date":"2026-09-04T11:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88909"},"modified":"2026-09-04T12:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:38:20","slug":"game-director-finally-addresses-his-rumored-foot-fetish-wait-not-kojima-the-other-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88909","title":{"rendered":"Game Director Finally Addresses His Rumored Foot Fetish\u2013Wait, Not Kojima, The Other One"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1875581\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/darksoles.png?w=636\" class=\"wp-image-1875581\" \/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A prolific Japanese game developer has finally addressed all that weird foot imagery in his video games. What? No, I&#8217;m not talking about Hideo Kojima (he&#8217;s busy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN\/status\/2095885977348944128\">hanging out with The Backrooms director<\/a> right now, anyway). I&#8217;m referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/dark-souls\/\">Dark Souls<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/elden-ring\/\">Elden Ring<\/a> director Hidetaka Miyazaki, who has finally addressed online speculation that he is a foot guy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt&#8217;s not necessarily something I\u2019m consistently aware of&#8211;maybe it\u2019s something subconscious coming through,\u201d Miyazaki told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2026\/sep\/03\/ruin-and-decay-bring-a-chance-of-rebirth-hidetaka-miyazaki-on-uniting-players-in-a-damaged-world\">The Guardian<\/a> in response to a question about all the hand imagery in his upcoming action-RPG, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/the-duskbloods\/\">The Duskbloods<\/a>. &#8220;Take a look online and there\u2019s a rumor that I have a bit of a thing for feet, but I\u2019m not honestly sure where this comes from.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1875573\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MaidenInBlack.png?w=636\" alt=\"The Maiden in Black as seen in Dark Souls. She sits on a staircase, kicking her bare feet back and forth.\" class=\"wp-image-1875573\" \/>Seriously, stop making it weird. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though Miyazaki says he&#8217;s not sure where the idea that he has a &#8220;thing for feet&#8221; comes from, it&#8217;s something fans of his games have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/shittydarksouls\/comments\/16hefu6\/why_does_every_souls_game_has_feet_and_how_does\/\">noticed for years<\/a>. Whether we&#8217;re<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prolific Japanese game developer has finally addressed all that weird foot imagery in his video games. What? No, I&#8217;m not talking about Hideo Kojima (he&#8217;s busy hanging out with The Backrooms director right now, anyway). I&#8217;m referring to Dark Souls and Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki, who has finally addressed online speculation that he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":88911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88912,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88909\/revisions\/88912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}