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canceled, but there is still hope...
C O N T E N T S
1,2 - Death Stranding
3,4 - Silent Hills
4,5 - Norman Reedus
7,8 - Dog Tags
9,10 - Del Toro
11,12 - junji ito
Death Stranding is an upcoming action video game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation 4. It is the first game by game director Hideo Kojima and his company following the 2015 disbandment of Kojima Productions as a subsidiary of Konami and subsequent reformation as an independent studio. It was announced at Sony’s E3 2016 conference, and has no set release date. Actors Norman Reedus and Mads Mikkelsen will portray leading characters in the game, through motion capture, facial scanning, and vocal performance; director Guillermo del Toro will also contribute his likeness to another character through facial and body scanning. The game’s title is a reference to the cetacean stranding phenomenon.
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D E A T H S T R A N D I N G
“footage from the game’s second trailer”
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Silent Hills is a cancelled survival horror video game that was under development by Kojima Productions for PlayStation 4. Directed by Hideo Kojima, along with Guillermo del Toro, it was to be the ninth main installment in the Silent Hill series. Kojima was brought onto the project in September 2012 by Konami; the game was announced in August 2014 via P.T., short for Playable Teaser, a critically acclaimed demo that was released as a free download from the PlayStation Store. P.T. revealed the involvement of Del Toro, along with Norman Reedus as the voice and appearance of its protagonist. Marketed as a demo for a horror game by the non-existent 7780s Studio. P.T. uses a first-person perspective, in contrast to the usual third-person perspective often found in the Silent Hill series, and centers on an unknown protagonist who awakens in a supposedly haunted house and experiences supernatural occurrences.
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“ingame footage�
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What a surprise! Right? The Naked Character from Death Stranding’s trailer is none other than Norman Reedus - working “again” with Hideo Kojima... -After we’ve been told that Silent Hills had been cancelled.
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Death Stranding and Sillent Hills’s Director Kojima’s goal with P.T was to unite gamers from all over the world into solving one of the greatest puzzles in the gaming industry... Intentionally downgrading FOX Engine’s graphical capabilities Kojima made P.T seem like a new horror title which was being developed by an unfamiliar indie studio. Co-operating together, people around the world were able to decipher the hidden messages in different languages found in this “Playable Teaser”, and, to Kojima’s surprise, fans did not take very long to solve this grand puzzle, escaping the loop and leaving the house thus revealing the truth behind this mysterious game, which was being developed by a mysterious, fake studio (7780s Studio)... A game which turned out to be: Sillent Hills, which was being developed by Kojima Productions.
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As you can see, the Dog Tags on reedus’s Character appear to contain certain equations on them... These equations (supposedly being the Schwarzschild Radius and Dirac Equation) reference subjects as quantum mechanics & relativity, which are potentially hinting at black holes and alternate dimensions being involved in the plot behind death stranding. both black holes and alternate dimensions are mentioned on silent hill’s playable teaser.
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“Death Stranding’s trailer footage”
Guillermo Del Toro on death stranding’s trailer... What a surprise! Right? Famed film director, screenwriter, producer and novelist, Del Toro is best known for his work in dark horror films. Kojima’s fans might know him best from his involvement in P.T. (Silent Hills), which he “was” set to direct alongside Hideo Kojima. Following Norman Reedus’s return, Del Toro is yet another member of the P.T. Team who is working with Hideo Kojima, “again”... -After we’ve been told that Silent Hills had been cancelled.
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Junji Ito was confirmed to be working with Kojima and Del Toro on Silent Hills (P.T) before its “unfortunate” cancellation. He is one of the most distinctive and twisted manga artists in Japan, with a ton of warped horror series like Gyo, which sees Okinawa invaded by mutant killer fish with metal legs as a holdover from World War II research, or Uzumaki, in which a town is cursed by an obsession with spirals. His graphic style isn’t really something that’s been seen in major video games, but in hindsight, what little we saw of Silent Hills and its short-lived concept demo P.T. was characteristically right in line.
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A particular chapter in another manga by junji ito, -Uzumaki (spiral), was called: “The Umbilical Cord�.
His unique style of horror gave Silent Hills Playable Teaser the weirdness it needed and hyped up the fans even more.
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