Game designer Hideo Kojima has been discussing his legacy of creating “experimental” games, and has teased that the upcoming horror project, OD, will be “just as different.”
Every Connection Between Hideo Kojima's OD & Silent Hill (So Far)
16.12.2023 - 16:25 / screenrant.com / Udo Kier
Hideo Kojima and Jordan Peele's newly-announced game,, seems to have a lot in common with his canceled project. Announced at The Game Awards 2023,, like almost all Kojima's games before it, immediately attracted a lot of speculation. His reputation precedes him, but it's well deserved. Kojima is credited with the invention of the modern stealth game in 1987's, and all his other games since have attempted to break boundaries in a variety of different ways.
But for all the hype, there's still one Kojima title that no one will ever get to play. It's been a few years since was canceled, but it still stings to think about what players might have missed out on. Mounting evidence, however, suggests that might help make up for that. Here's how.
Redditor GlazicBlr discovered what appears to be a reference in the trailer for OD, which features a series of people laboriously repeating phonetic pangrams in a dark room. Phonetic pangrams are phrases that contain every phoneme, or vocalized sound, in a language. One of those people is played by German actor Udo Kier. As he speaks, letters appear faintly in his mouth, each remaining on screen for no more than a frame or two.
Together, the letters spell out "" over a period of roughly 13 seconds. They're partially transparent, last only briefly, and appear in different areas of his mouth each time, so they may be hard to see. They can be found in the image gallery above, or in the raw footage of the trailer below.
The letters can be viewed by skipping to the following time codes in the video above: 0:37, 0:39, 0:42, 0:44, and 0:50.
So, that's interesting enough, but what does it have to do with? Atami is the name of a small city in Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture. In Japanese, "" is written 静岡県, pronounced "." However, Japanese kanji may be interpreted in various ways depending on the context they're written in. Taken out of context, two of the kanji in the name of Shizuoka Prefecture can be read as "" (静) and "" (岡).
Many have already pointed out the similarities between and Kojima's . On August 12, 2014, a game called appeared without warning, available via free download from the PlayStation Store. It was unassumingly simple, yet unbelievably creepy. Players were required to walk repeatedly through an infinitely looping version of a suburban house's hallway, hearing bumps and seeing odd shadows from behind. There would be minor differences to the hallway each time: a radio might crackle to life and begin reporting on a horrific murder, a fridge might appear with blood dripping from its doors, or a talking fetus might climb out of a sink and explain its backstory.
ended in a false crash — once a player completed a certain number of loops, the game would abruptly
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