In the teaser, you played as an unnamed male protagonist (presumably going to be played by Norman Reedus) trapped in an ever looping hallway as a disturbing apparition named “Lisa” stalks the player. (an initialism for “playable teaser”) at Sony’s conference at Gamescom and released it onto the PSN Store on August 12th, 2014.
In 2014, Kojima Productions (under the alias of fake game studio 7780s Studio) teased a game demo called P.T. But first, they wanted to give the public a taste for what was in-stored for them. Titled Silent Hills, Kojima hoped to make the game of the best in the franchise with an all-star horror team gaming has never seen. Kojima brought on board acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro to co-produce, legendary horror manga artist Junji Ito to design the game’s monsters, and Walking Dead actor Norman Reedus onto the project to star as its protagonist. Even though his relationship with Konami was becoming much tenser due to the publisher’s interference with the development of his final entry in the Metal Gear series Metal Gear Solid The Phantom Pain, Kojima agreed to take on the project Silent Hills.
And with the disbanding of Silent Hill’s original developers Team Silent and the franchise going to several less experienced developers, Konami needed to breathe new life into their horror series.īest known for his critically acclaimed tenure in the Metal Gear series, Konami approached the developer in 2012 to give his spin on the Silent Hill series. However, survival horror was thriving in smaller studio releases and independent developers with titles such as Amnesia and Outlast proving horror within gaming is still desired amongst gamers. This is the death and legacy of P.T., video gaming’s very own ghost.īefore 2014, many gamers felt that AAA (a term to describe major video game releases) Survival Horrorwas essentially dead with games such as Resident Evil 6 and Dead Space 3 leaning towards action-oriented gameplay to appeal to the largest demographic, though this lead to these titles having less than stellar fanfare. But this hasn’t always been the case in 2014, there was a sliver of hope that Silent Hill will return with one of the most brilliant pieces of video game marketing…only for those hopes to be killed and yet left a legacy that is still felt to this day. With the last true video game release (ignoring their themed pachinko machines) of Silent Hill being Silent Hill: Book of Memories which was released on the Playstation Vita in 2012, survival horror fans have now all but given up hope for Silent Hill’s grand return. This is just the latest example of Konami’s uninspired use of one of the most iconic horror franchises as of late. On October 12th, 2019, after weeks of speculation, the once-beloved video game publisher Konami finally unveiled the newest addition to their much-beloved Silent Hill franchise…a slot machine.
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