>created a franchise as old as Mario and Zelda
>persevered throughout the ages, making sucessful games enough to get another iteration without doing the regurgitated slops that Mario and Zelda
>The games kept getting more and more graphical fidelity, the gameplay kept improving, the cinematics aswell

Long live Metal Gear and Death Stranding

>creates the most epic female videogame characters (The Boss)
>creates the most epic black videogame character (Die-Hardman or Drebin)
>creates the most epic white male character (Solid Snake or BB, but there's also Solidus Snake, Liquid, Senator Armstrong, Raiden, literally just take your pick)

How is he so good at making characters?

He always pushed for his IPs, he never abandoned, until they were taken away from him, all his games are polished and have a high level of detail and care, the vision and themes of his games have resonated, he never gone off track (like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Final Fantasy. Mario, Zelda, GoW,etc)
He doesn't slop like fromsoftware, or go way too goofy like Yakuza, he does plot twists better than Ace Combat, he does music better than DmC, he does political commentary better than Nier Automata.