More than four years after its initial announcement, OD remains one of the biggest mysteries in the video game industry. We know Kojima Productions’ next game is some sort of horror experience, and that genre auteur Jordan Peele contributed to the project, butspecifics are hard to come by. Despite the caginess, we got a new look at OD as part of Kojima Productions’ 10th anniversary exhibition, which is running through Dec. 20 at Azabudai Hills Gallery in Tokyo.
A new promotional image for the exhibition shows Sophia Lillis’ character looking at a levitating red object that could be a broom or something else. The tagline reads, “For all players and screamers.” While the image doesn’t offer much to go on, the floating red broom may hint at the style of occult mystery that OD is going for: witchcraft, ghosts, and other paranormal phenomena seem to be on the table. Many fans are assuming that the floating red object in the teaser image is a reference to witches.
"Is that a broomstick?" one Reddit user wrote. "It’s the same red as Hunter Schafer’s costume in the last image release. Could she be some sort of witch?
Wouldn’t predict witches but with Kojima I wouldn’t rule out anything.” The red is also the same red as the door shown in OD’s Knock teaser video from last year. Calling it now!!!” another user said. Others commented on the teaser's aesthetic.
Instead of the generic dark and gloomy here we have something bright and surreal,” reads one comment. Fans were divided, with some thinking it was an in-game screenshot that showed the fidelity of MetaHuman’s 3D facial capture technology, while others believed details like the hair are simply too realistic to have been rendered in-engine. While it hasn't been officially confirmed, there's a rumor that OD will be made up of multiple episodes handled by different writers, with OD: Knock being Kojima's part.
Kojima previously said that the game will bring together an "Avengers" team-up of horror writers. The most substantial look we’ve gotten at OD so far was the teaser trailer released last year. The trailer begins with redacted text that hints at curses.
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