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\u00a9Kojima Productions, Entertainment Weekly <\/p>\nHideo Kojima has slyly dropped a single, brand new screenshot for his upcoming horror game OD, and even though it\u2019s just a single screenshot, there\u2019s something weirdly familiar about this creepy hallway!<\/p>\n
\u00a9Kojima Productions, Entertainment Weekly <\/p>\n
This image comes from a much larger, Xbox-themed piece reported by Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, for which Kojima and others were interviewed. We have very little information thus far on even what OD is: we know it\u2019s a horror game, seemingly some sort of anthology<\/a> with different directors. Kojima keeps saying he\u2019s doing something that\u2019s \u201ctotally different\u201d and \u201cavant-garde,\u201d which is to say we don\u2019t really know what the gameplay looks like, just that it will explore different types of fear with the aim of the player \u201coverdosing\u201d on horror. So far, we\u2019ve seen two trailers: one with actors Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schafer, and the late Udo Kier reciting (with increasing levels of panic) what sounds like an odd variation on \u201cThe quick brown fox\u2026\u201d, and one with Lillis doing some ritual with candles before a creepy figure comes up behind her and attacks.<\/p>\n So given the very little info we have, Kojima saying anything new about OD is pretty fascinating. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Kojima said that he pitched OD to \u201cmany people, to the big companies, and also to the up-and-coming companies,\u201d but all of them told him that\u2019s he was \u201ccrazy\u201d and that they didn\u2019t understand the concept. It was Phil Spencer who ultimately greenlit it<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to go beyond the limit of the \u2018scariness\u2019 that other games had reached,\u201d Kojima said. \u201cIt\u2019s a single-player game, and I wanted to make it as scary as possible. But for those that might stop playing when it gets too scary, I have thought of a system that will allow them to keep going. I can\u2019t say much more, because it\u2019ll give too much of a hint on the system, and I could get in trouble for saying too much!\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s all he really said, but Kojima also provided the above screenshot of a creepy, almost Backrooms-yellow hallway with an old-fashioned TV and an unsettling figure in the darkness of an open door at the end. And look, plenty of games have spooky hallways in them with creepy figures waiting at the other end. But the combination of a creepy hallway with a looming figure,\u00a0 the ugly paint choices, and the retro piece of media equipment sure makes this image reminiscent of PT! (In PT\u2018s case, the old-timey tech was a radio.)<\/p>\n PT, if you recall, stands for Playable Teaser, and was a 2014 demo of sorts for the since-canceled Kojima game Silent Hills. Kojima removed PT from the PlayStation store after Silent Hills was canceled, rendering it unplayable now unless you still have a PS4 with it already installed. If nothing else, the similarities here suggest that hallways and creepy women at the ends of them have been on Kojima\u2019s mind in the decade since all this happened. Maybe we\u2019ll see another glimpse of what PT could have been in OD\u2026whenever it comes out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hideo Kojima has slyly dropped a single, brand new screenshot for his upcoming horror game OD, and even…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[18103,74,1298],"class_list":["post-720928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-hideo-kojima","tag-technology","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}