One of many greatest “what-ifs” within the gaming world because the 2010s has been the Hideo Kojima-directed Silent Hills sport that was finally cancelled, and its free PS4-exclusive teaser P.T. which has since been delisted and faraway from consoles that have been linked to the Web. Taking to social media, Bayonetta and Satan Might Cry creator Hideki Kamiya spoke in regards to the legacy of P.T., and the way he desires Kojima to make one thing comparable down the road.
In a sequence of posts on social media platform X, Kamiya wrote about 2023 horror title The Exit 8, and the way a lot it reminded him of Kojima’s P.T., and the way he would love for the Dying Standing director to return to an identical model of horror sport sooner or later sooner or later. Kamiya additionally famous that he might give it a strive himself, however that it seemingly wouldn’t be a horror sport.
“When [The Exit 8] was launched, I believed, ‘Ah, it’s a P.T.-type factor,’ and figured that the streets can be buzzing with speak about that, however surprisingly, there weren’t many feedback referring to it, and earlier than I knew it, I began listening to the time period ‘Eighth-like,’ and I used to be like, huh? However… yeah, P.T. has certainly been buried in darkness endlessly… Konami, you idiots,” wrote Kamiya on X (translated by way of Grok).
“If reviving P.T. is not possible, Kojima-san ought to simply make one other sport in the identical model,” he continued. “If Kojima-san received’t do it, possibly I’ll give it a strive… I’m not a fan of horror, so it wouldn’t be horror… plus, I don’t have any concepts anyway…”
P.T., for its personal half, has left fairly a mark on followers of the horror style. The free horror expertise was launched throughout a time when the horror franchise in AAA gaming was believed to have been lifeless, with indie builders taking the stage with their very own scary outings. Whereas the title stays unplayable, the legacy of P.T. continues to be value noting. For extra particulars, try our ideas on why it nonetheless stays one of many final benchmarks for horror video games.
Within the meantime, Kojima dabbled with a number of completely different genres since his departure from Konami by way of the experimental gameplay of the 2 Dying Stranding titles, and is at the moment engaged on a brand new horror sport – OD. The title, which is being developed in collaboration with horror filmmaker Jordan Peele, is being developed alongside Microsoft, and is slated to utilize the tech large’s cloud applied sciences to supply up some distinctive scares.
Whereas no particulars about OD have been revealed since its unique announcement, emblems have indicated that the upcoming title will seemingly characteristic a pair of latest methods, dubbed Social Scream and Social Stealth. The names of those two methods have been found by way of trademark filings again in December 2023, and point out that OD may characteristic some form of multiplayer facet, much like what we’ve seen with the asynchronous multiplayer methods in each of the Dying Stranding video games.
Together with OD, Kojima Productions can be engaged on a brand new espionage sport dubbed Physint.
