Yes, the folks at Kojima Productions have gone off the rails again, or at least that's what we want to believe, since a post on their official Twitter account is generating a conspiracy theory pointing to nothing less than the release of the highly anticipated Silent Hills . Are we just imagining things, or is there some truth to this madness? Let's analyze the situation.
The photo of discord
The official account of Kojima Productions has published the following photo:
Sorry to be silent everyone! I've been really busy lately…..I think I can say more soon about what we are going to….. #KojimaProductions https://t.co/Vr0qPj3DwV pic.twitter.com/BiweDgGC4v
— Kojima Productions (@KojiPro2015_EN) February 28, 2020
“Sorry everyone for being silent! I've been really busy lately... I think I can say more soon about what we're going to…”
The first thing you might think about an announcement from Kojima Productions is something related to the PC version of Death Stranding ; however, the game already has a release date set for sometime in the middle of the year, so a tweet like this doesn't quite fit.
But of course, analyzing the image that accompanies the tweet we can find a series of details that do nothing more than set off certain alarms, and that is that as you can see below, there are occasions that add up so much and seem so intertwined that it is hard for us to think of anything else. . Pay attention, because the hype train has only just begun.
The clues about Silent Hills
You surely remember the release of the famous Playable Teaser . Known as PT, it was Kojima's failed project. Or rather, canceled, because Konami decided to scrap the project that was spearheaded by Guillermo del Toro and Norman Reedus. After a haunting demo that laid the groundwork for new horror video games, the playthrough ended with a short trailer for what would have been the new Silent Hills. But unfortunately, we never heard anything more. Until… today?
And this is where the famous Twitter photo comes in. As we can see, the company's head of communications, Aki Saito, is writing on a Post-it note, which reads " Next week! "
To that we must add the word "silent," a rather strange and forced way of saying you've been absent. These two details alone have been enough for many to bet that next week we'll see an announcement related to Silent Hills. However, the last and most twisted detail is yet to come: the pencil used by the executive shows the word " Pyramid," something some are suggesting is a clear reference to Pyramid Head, a disturbing monster that terrified us in Silent Hills 2. Coincidence?
The mystery is there, and we can only wait for next week to find out for sure. We do not know if something is really hidden or if it is just another trolling from Kojima's people, however, we must take into account that Kojima had planned his presence at the GDC in San Francisco, but for reasons related to the coronavirus, the genius has had to be absent from the event (like many other brands).
Will we finally see Kojima's Silent Hills come true? Hopefully it will be like that.