Hideo Kojima Should Make a New P.T.-Style Game, or Maybe I Will, Says Bayonetta and Devil May Cry Creator Hideki Kamiya

Okami and Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya precocious weighed successful connected Hideo Kojima’s “lost” fearfulness crippled demo P.T., and its lasting legacy.

A collaboration betwixt Hideo Kojima and movie manager Guillermo del Toro, P.T. was released successful 2014 connected the PS4 arsenic a escaped demo for their upcoming crippled Silent Hills. However, erstwhile bid steadfast Konami cancelled the crippled successful 2015, they besides delisted the demo from the PlayStation Store, making it intolerable to redownload. This led to second-hand PS4 consoles with the critically acclaimed demo commanding precocious prices connected auction sites similar Ebay.

On X, wherever helium regularly responds to (and blocks/unblocks) fans, Hideki Kamiya precocious talked astir P.T successful effect to a idiosyncratic expressing anticipation that either Kamiya oregon Kojima would effort making different P.T.-style game. On September 5, Kamiya tweeted, “if it’s intolerable to resurrect P.T., Kojima should marque a caller crippled successful the aforesaid style,” adding: "if Kojima doesn’t bash it, possibly I’ll springiness it a go. I hatred fearfulness though, truthful it wouldn’t beryllium horror... plus, I person nary ideas.”

It seems that Kojima’s upcoming experimental fearfulness crippled OD mightiness spell immoderate mode to plugging the P.T.-shaped hole. First teased backmost successful 2023 via a mysterious trailer, OD promises to “explore the conception of investigating your fearfulness threshold, and what it means to overdose connected fear.”

Like P.T., OD is besides a collaboration with a filmmaker, this clip with Jordan Peele of Get Out fame. Hideo Kojima antecedently promised that OD volition beryllium thing that “no 1 has seen before,” though details inactive stay scarce. Kojima volition beryllium holding a peculiar lawsuit successful Tokyo aboriginal this period to observe 10 years since his interruption with Konami, wherever helium is apt to uncover much info astir aboriginal projects (possibly including much astir OD).

Although Devil May Cry and Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya kicked disconnected his vocation astatine Capcom moving connected the archetypal Resident Evil and its sequel, helium has ne'er made a modern, photorealistic fearfulness crippled akin to P.T. In a bid of tweets past October, Kamiya observed that P.T.’s delisting near a spread successful the market, which Japanese indie deed The Exit 8 stepped into. “The Exit 8 went viral, but it’s fundamentally conscionable a watered-down P.T.,” Kamiya opined.

The Exit 8 is acold little gory and objectively little scary than P.T., nevertheless it does stock the delisted demo’s looping corridor mechanic, gathering a consciousness of dread successful the subordinate arsenic they effort to spot anomalies successful its subway passage. Selling accelerated connected Steam upon its merchandise successful November 2023, The Exit 8 has grown into specified a improvement that it has adjacent spawned a movie adaptation (which precocious generated immoderate contention successful Japan).

Despite saying that helium can’t play P.T. unsocial due to the fact that it is “too scary,” Hideki Kamiya is afloat of praise for Kojima and del Toro’s demo. He adjacent went truthful acold arsenic to accidental that the ‘8-like’ sub-genre (games with akin settings and mechanics to The Exit 8, which proliferated successful the aftermath of its meteoric success) should truly beryllium called ‘P.T.-like.’ “P.T. was truly that revolutionary - with an unparalleled uniqueness, and I deliberation it has powerfully influenced consequent crippled creators,” said Kamiya.

Speaking of Kamiya, he's engaged moving connected Okami 2 for Capcom with his caller improvement studio, Clovers. Kamiya near PlatinumGames successful 2023 nether thing of a cloud.

Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.