Hideo Kojima’s OD lastly has its first trailer, and sure, in fact, it’s solely cutscene, however oh my phrase, what a cutscene. You’ll oscillate between “Good grief, I can’t believe this is the Unreal Engine and not real life, and “Oh god, what the fuck is that?” all through its three minutes.
Throughout Kojima Productions’ tenth anniversary celebrations, Hideo Kojima lastly revealed some shifting photos of his forthcoming horror recreation OD, a venture he’s co-creating with horror maestro Jordan Peele. What we get is an extremely tense scene during which the superbly rendered palms of Sophia Lillis (It, I Am Not Okay With This) try and gentle an entire mess of candles. It’s tense due to far too many sounds, from Lillis’s personal terrified respiratory, the ambient sounds of adjoining flats, and that infernal knocking on the door.
By the top, whoever was knocking clearly ran out of endurance and let themselves in. We see the sinister, shadowy determine over Lissis’s shoulder (and word the face-shaped scars throughout her personal face), its thudding footsteps unnervingly sluggish, because it whispers demonically. Then, in case you had been questioning if all the pieces was going to be OK, it grabs for her and she or he screams. After the titles we reduce to see huge, gray palms clutching Lissis’s face in a very iconic picture.
Which is all pretty and scary! It, in fact, tells us exactly nothing in any respect in regards to the recreation, apart from that it’ll function baby-shaped candles and be dreadfully scary. There are such a lot of horror components going down directly right here, from the worms crawling out of a candle in writhing bundles to the terrible picture of the cartoonish baby-faced candle melting to disclose its wick, accompanied by the noises of an actual child screaming close by. Oh, and the tall, terrible demon-thing—I’m but to be satisfied he’s a goodie.
On the dwell occasion, there was all kinds of empty bluster about how the sport will change the very cloth of actuality, maybe requiring that humanity as soon as once more reset the yearly clock to a brand new After OD period, whereas not really saying something in any respect about what occurs within the recreation. Microsoft’s Phil Spencer declared it “truly visionary” whereas Kojima, modest as ever, added “this is totally different, even as a system.” However finest was Kojima’s declaration that as he travels all world wide scanning spooky places for the photorealistic recreation, “I want to scan a ghost for the first time, and I want to get an award for that.” Good luck with that.
Nonetheless, the trailer is freaking cool.
