Hideo Kojima sneakily released a brand new screenshot for his upcoming horror game OFand even though it’s just a single screenshot, there’s something strangely familiar about this spooky hallway!
©Kojima Productions, Entertainment Weekly This image is from a much larger Xbox themed piece reported by Weekly Entertainmentfor which Kojima and others were interviewed. So far we have very little information on this OF it is: we know that it is a horror game, apparently some kind of anthology with different directors. Kojima keeps saying that he’s doing something “totally different” and “avant-garde”, meaning that we don’t really know what the gameplay is like, just that he will explore different types of fear with the aim of “overdosing” the player with horror. So far, we’ve 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 eerie variation of “The Swift Brown Fox…”, and one with Lillis doing a ritual with candles before a scary figure appears behind her and attacks.
So given the very little information we have, Kojima says something new about OF is quite fascinating. Talk to Weekly EntertainmentKojima said he launched OF to “a lot of people, big companies, but also up-and-coming companies,” but everyone told him he was “crazy” and that they didn’t understand the concept. He it was Phil Spencer who finally gave the green light.
“I wanted to go beyond the ‘scary’ limit that other games had reached,” Kojima said. “It’s a single-player game, and I wanted to make it as scary as possible. But for those who might stop playing when it gets too scary, I thought of a system that will allow them to continue. I can’t say much more, because it will give too many clues about the system, and I might get in trouble if I say too much!”
That’s all he really said, but Kojima also provided the above screenshot of a creepy, almost yellow Backrooms hallway, complete with an old-fashioned TV and an unsettling figure in the darkness of an open door at the far end. And look, many games contain scary hallways with scary people waiting at the other end. But the combination of a creepy hallway with a looming figure, the ugly paint choices, and the retro media equipment certainly makes this image of TP! (In TPOtherwise, the old technology was a radio.)
TPif you remember, means Playable teaser, and was a sort of 2014 demo for the since-canceled Kojima game. Silent hills. Kojima deleted TP from the PlayStation Store after Silent hills was canceled, making 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 end of them have been on Kojima’s mind in the decade since all this. Maybe we’ll see another glimpse of what TP could have been in OF… every time he goes out.
