Monster Circus | wen
Every time Hideo Kojima makes a move, a group of people wonder if he is going to restart the "Silent Hill" project. Because in 2014, Hideo Kojima made a shocking demo "P.T." related to "Silent Hill", which was called one of the scariest works in the history of horror games at the time, and it was a revolutionary work that was enough to disrupt the industry.
Later, its first-person + looping + narrow corridor setting did inspire a bunch of classic horror games, and indirectly made various horror masterpieces shift from the third person before 2014 to the later first person. However, as everyone knows, this project has no follow-up because of the suppression of Hideo Kojima by the mentally handicapped Konami.
Since then, countless people have been looking forward to the day when Hideo Kojima can make "P.T." return. So there is the situation described in the previous paragraph: every time Hideo Kojima reveals something weird, some people think that "P.T." is about to be resurrected. And every time this situation occurs, it makes people want to laugh when they understand it superficially, but once you look carefully at these people's theories, it is likely to follow:
", Hideo Kojima's version of "Silent Hill", you have to do it!"
At the TGA some time ago, Hideo Kojima suddenly announced an inexplicable trailer "OD", which consists of three actors repeating a grotesque line to the camera, and in the end, the original actor is startled by something and quickly returns to normal in an abnormal way.
The three actors are Sophia Lilith, who killed a short-haired girl lover, played the druid in "Return of the Joker" and "Dungeons & Dragons", Hunter Summerer, who is the easiest to reverse the stereotype of passers-by about transgender actors, and Udo Gere, an old-timer who played Yuri in the Red Police.
Sophia
Hunter
Udo
In the past month, there have been a lot of conjectures surrounding the three actors, many of which have led to "P.T.", and we will summarize them today.
First of all, there are various details, such as the lines spoken by the trio, although they seem illogical, but they contain all the English letters, as well as various imagery from Hideo Kojima's previous work, and it also appeared in a 2018 video related to Hideo Kojima's noodle capture technique, when he also asked a voice actor to say this line. Combined with the close-up of the faces of the characters in the trailer, it makes people wonder if "OD" is really related to the face capture technique.
Others believe that this is a structural diagram of DNA
There are a lot of strange details in the trailer, such as the Geiger counter-like sound before each clip starts, the characters' words and lip movements, and the slight inconsistencies in the darkness before each character's face disappears...... But the most eye-catching thing is the sound of the door banging in front of Sophia's frightened clip at the end, and the image of the door opening reflected in her pupils.
Why do you think this has something to do with P.T.? Because the process of P.T. is connected by opening the door again and again. When the trailer for "OD" ended, Hideo Kojima appeared on the TGA stage through a door, and the design of this door was the same as the door in "P.T.".
The door of "P.T."
By the way, don't ignore the dazzling light that appears on Hideo Kojima's crotch, it must be hinting at something.
Of course, the most powerful blow to this conspiracy theory is the words hidden by Hideo Kojima in the trailer. Hiding characters in the trailer is something Hideo Kojima has always loved to do, and this time, someone found that in Udo Kiel's mouth, there were several letters, which can be spelled "Atami", that is, Atami City, Japan.
And this city of Atami belongs to Shizuoka Prefecture, and Shizuoka means silent hill, in other words, silent hill.
Don't look at this explanation seems far-fetched, Hideo Kojima mentioned it himself. In a 2014 interview with TGA host Geoff, he explained that Shizuoka Prefecture is actually Silent Hill. At that time, when Hideo Kojima made "P.T.", he used the pseudonym "7780s Studio", and 7780 was the value of Shizuoka Prefecture's area measurement.
So what exactly is OD? The most common meaning of the word is overdose. A year ago, there was a leak of what was said to be Hideo Kojima's new game, called Overdose, which was the model of Mama from Death Stranding, exploring in an abandoned room with a depressing environment, and it was really easy to blurt out what the atmosphere looked like: Silent Hill.
Note that the door is really the same as the P.T
At the time, many people thought it was a fake video, but as soon as the trailer for "OD" came out, I am afraid that people were not so sure.
By the way, the final candid photo of this leaked video seems meaningless, but who can say for sure that this is not a foreshadowing planted by Hideo Kojima in advance? Who can tell!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, don't ridicule why a man's upper body should also be coded, we really have been blocked for a week because of this.
So, is Hideo Kojima really doing "Silent Hill"? At present, Silent Hill's IP is still on Konami, and judging from its recent plan to remake past IPs, the arrogant and stupid Konami should not lean over to "compromise" with Hideo Kojima before these remakes hit the streets.
However, who's to say that P.T. represents Silent Hill? PT, which is actually an abbreviation for "playable teaser", has no superficial connection to Silent Hill in the past, not even the iconic switch between the world of the interior. Although at that time, according to the unpacking, outside that constantly circulating corridor, there was actually a map of Silent Hill.
That's right, P.T. actually made a big city (Silent Hill) outside the small corridor, but it was all lost to Konami.
At the time, it was also discovered that the main character of "P.T." was modeled as Reedus, a crossbow brother, who was rumored to be involved in the production of a "Silent Hill" project at the time, and the "P.T." collaborator was director Gyro, and both of them later followed Kojima to "Death Stranding".
So, will Hideo Kojima leave the lineup of "P.T." to "Death Stranding" and creativity to "OD"?
Of course, the above are just repertoire programs of marketing genius Hideo Kojima over the years, and all speculations can only be seen in a fun way. For example, when the premiere trailer for Death Stranding appeared, there were people who justifiably cited evidence that it was a sequel to Metal Gear Solid, and now everyone knows: don't guess Kojima's game, he's really not making a mystery question.
However, wouldn't it be nice if the core of P.T. could really say goodbye to players in this way?
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