Just after “Death Stranding 2” was officially launched in 2025, Hideo Kojima fans around the world gradually began to focus on the legendary producer’s next new work “OD”. But for now, this horror game is still surrounded by many mysteries. Not only is it still unclear from the two publicity videos that have been released, but there is no news at all during this year’s game launch season. And now, Hideo Kojima himself has finally come forward to share some new details.
“OD” is a horror game co-created by Kojima Studio and Xbox. Just like many of Kojima Hideo’s past works, players will also see the participation of many well-known Hollywood actors in this game, such as Sophia Lillis from “It” and “Dungeons & Dragons: Thieves of Honor”, Hunter Schaeffer from “High School”, and even the deceased actor German actor Udo Kier. At the same time, “Get Out” director Jordan Peele was invited to co-write the script.
As for what exactly “OD” is about? Although many details are still unclear, Hideo Kojima has repeatedly emphasized that this game will bring players an unprecedented horror experience, and for fans, this is definitely extremely exciting news. As recently as 2014, Konami once planned to cooperate with the producer to create a new “Silent Hill” game, and developed an interactive trailer experience called “P.T.” for this purpose.
Although this development plan was eventually cancelled, “P.T.” as an experience demonstration alone has already caused a sensation in the player community, and even had a profound impact on the entire horror game genre. Therefore, players thought that they might have a chance to see some elements in “OD” that were originally intended to be applied to the new “Silent Hill” game.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Hideo Kojima himself finally revealed some hints of content related to “OD” to fans, including a unique game mechanic that he had proposed to multiple partners in the past, but was ultimately rejected. According to him, the vision behind the mechanic eluded many gaming companies until he met Phil Spencer, the former head of Xbox.
Although the senior executive has currently resigned and been replaced by the new head Asha Sharma, and has carried out a large-scale overhaul of many development policies of the Xbox game department, players currently do not seem to need to worry that “OD” will be affected, because the new batch of Xbox senior teams are still willing to support Hideo Kojima’s unique vision.
Even though he doesn’t plan to reveal too many details at this stage, Hideo Kojima hinted that the game mechanics of “OD” will revolve around the horror atmosphere of the game itself and the reactions of players during the game.
“I want to break the limits of ‘horror’ that other games have reached. This will be a single-player game, and I want to do everything possible to make this game as scary as ever before. But for those players who give up halfway because it is too scary, I have conceived a system that will make them want to continue playing. I can’t reveal too much, because that will give too many hints about the system design, and I will get in trouble if I talk too much!” He said
The reason why Hideo Kojima’s works have been able to establish such a unique brand image among players is of course due to the producer’s pursuit of “innovation”, which often reaches the point of brain-opening. For example, in the first generation of “Metal Gear Solid”, the producer designed an original mechanism to break the fourth wall during the boss battle with “Psycho Mantis”. In the GBA game “Our Sun” launched in 2003, the producer also installed a sunlight sensor chip on the game cartridge, allowing players to use real sunlight to fight against the vampires in the game. Even “Death Stranding” launched in recent years has completely established the “walking simulator” genre. Therefore, players can certainly look forward to what kind of creative breakthroughs “OD” will bring.
Source: KOCPC Chinese