Disclaimer: I am not very smart and I am grasping at straws here after watching this video
Imagery Breakdown If anyone has played Silent Hill 2 you know that Kojima is all about metaphor and the obscure. You have to figure his games out and since the gaming community has only gotten smarter so have the tactics of game trailers. So I'll break down the imagery I saw (I'm sure I missed some, point it out in the comments).
There is alot of birth imagery; i.e., the baby flask, and the umbilicals on the giant hand head monsters.
There is also lots of death imagery, everyone loves death imagery. See the guy that gets eaten by the ground ghosts and all the dead whales and the crazy nasty grubs that Daryl spits up.
Then there is ascension/evolution imagery. Obviously, the humans floating in a ring and shit; you're familiar with it.
The Meat of my theory Here is a literal synopsis of what I think the game is about. Some humans have evolved (maybe using the black goo shit). Others haven't, we are seeing the world from Norman Reedus's perspective. A human that hasn't evolved. They are protecting these babies from being infected with the Evolution goo using the baby flasks.
The world has become uninhabitable for humans because the evolved humans don't need an atmosphere or air or water or food. These evolved people are draining the world of its energy and killing our species in turn.
We are seeing a world of evolved humans from the perspective of those who haven't yet evolved and that is where the horror comes from. That's why we get the single tear (kind of cliche Native American symbol here) from Reedus at the end.
TL:DR I think the game is going to be a horror title from the perspective of the stragglers in the next step of human evolution.
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