It’s been years since Hideo Kojima first announced his new horror game OD, which is being made in collaboration with filmmaker Jordan Peele. Well, the wait has been worth it because OD‘s new trailer looks awfully spooky.
You can check out the trailer for yourself down below:
The OD trailer, as you might expect, gives basically nothing away. We see a door, we hear some knocking, and then a card is slipped in through the gap. All it says is that we must light the fires to celebrate… something. We then see the game world through first-person view as our player character moves through these delightfully eerie rooms before arriving at a small table with some candles on it. Some of these candles also hold tiny babies.
In an impressively animated flourish, we see the character’s hands whip out a match box as she deft strikes a match to light it. Video games, man. We’re already at the point where it’s getting harder to tell that they’re actually video game characters and not real people. Anyway, some spooky stuff happens as we keep hearing knocks on the door and someone eventually walks in. We then get a glimpse of the character’s face, portrayed by none other than Sophie Lillis, who played Beverly Marsh in It. A figure grabs her from behind and the trailer ends.
It’s hard not to draw comparisons to the excellent PT demo that Kojima released years ago as a teaser for Silent Hills, which subsequently got canned. There were hints of rituals and sacrifices, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that Kojima must have just saved all his ideas from PT for this new project. I, for one, will likely not be playing OD because it just looks way too scary. I mean, I wasn’t even able to finish the PT demo.
There’s still no release date for OD, but the game will start Sophie Lillis, Udo Kier, and Hunter Schafer, who’s perhaps best known for playing Jules in HBO’s Euphoria.
