Hideo Kojima confirmed off a creepy trailer for his upcoming recreation, OD, at The Sport Awards final week. That includes three completely different actors talking what seems like creepy gibberish on the digicam, it didn’t inform us a complete lot about what this recreation will even be. However since its reveal, followers have observed a couple of Silent Hill references cleverly hidden inside. Spooky.
Again in 2014, when Hideo Kojima was nonetheless working for recreation writer Konami, he and movie director Guillermo del Toro had been engaged on a brand new Silent Hill recreation. A playable teaser appropriately titled P.T. teased Silent Hills, a recreation that will have starred actor Norman Reedus (who, together with Guillermo del Toro, would go on to seem in Kojima’s Demise Stranding in 2019). The trailer featured first-person gameplay set in a sequence of looping rooms in a haunted constructing (or another manifestation of horror). As Kojima would go on to depart Konami in 2015, the Silent Hills challenge because it was recognized ended, and P.T. disappeared from the PlayStation retailer.
The teaser left its mark, nevertheless. It stays a notable a part of the PS4’s life, and arguably has influenced a variety of different horror titles akin to Resident Evil 7. It’s even been remade by followers through the years. And now it’s clear that references to P.T. and Silent Hill itself are buried in Kojima’s first official reveal of OD.
The title ‘Atami’ is hidden within the OD trailer
At across the 42-44 second mark on the OD – TGA 2023 Teaser Trailer, you may spot the letters A T A M I within the mouth of cult actor Udo Kier(Armageddon, Johnny Mnemonic, Command & Conquer: Purple Alert 2). Followers had been fast to level this out and have begun theorycrafting about what it might imply.
It’s very laborious to see this in movement at full pace when you don’t know what to search for, and it’s made doubly laborious by web compression on YouTube.
Atami, a metropolis within the Japanese prefecture Shizuoka (which, as some may know, itself loosely interprets to “silent hill”), is suspected by some to be the supply of inspiration for the city within the unique 1999 PSX horror title Silent Hill.
The trailer and stage set for OD additionally referenced P.T.
That large door Kojima walked by way of on stage at The Sport Awards wasn’t only a prop. As followers have identified, it seems like a direct reference to the beginning of P.T. You’ll be able to see this door once more in actress Sophia Lillis’ eyes at 1:14 within the OD trailer.
Followers additionally suspect that a fast shot of an MRI scan of a mind within the OD trailer harkens again to the brightness slider in P.T..
So yeah, depart it to Kojima to work with these rattling brightness sliders in a inventive method.
Kojima’s reveal of OD, regardless of taking on a lot extra time than was given to most individuals at The Sport Awards, was gentle on particulars. Although we do know that Jordan Peele is working with him. Cool, I suppose.