Here is a different explanation for everything. PART ONE of this is a sort of timeline and explanation of why and how this all happened. It's mostly grounded in events we know about. PART TWO of this is the batshit crazy esoteric stuff that might evidence that I think evidences the theory. It's a lot of symbology etc. so highly speculative.
PART ONE:
I posted a theory previously suggesting that Kojima could have purchased or paid off Blue Box to orchestrate this ARG, going back to 2015. As part of that theory I speculated that Kojima may have met Hasan due to them both developing in Leiden. While I think there are some great points in that theory overall, I do have some reservations. Kojima is a troll, and he does love elaborate marketing strategies...but this seems a bit much, even for him? It seems impossible that someone could orchestrate such a bizzare network of cryptic clues, shell companies, games journalists etc. all just to announce this game. One of the biggest flaws is that it means Kojima was planning this really specific thing possibly as early as 2014, just for the sake of teasing a game to be released possibly 8 years later? I don't entirely believe it. Nobody would do that without good reason.
However, this whole thing adds up a lot more when you consider it may have a hidden purpose. An intent that ties a lot of the coincidences and overly intricate planning together.
We all know that Kojima wants to realise Silent Hills. He's repeatedly alluded to it, saying multiple times since that he wants to create the scariest horror game ever. Del Toro was clearly very upset about the cancellation too. Here's what could've happened:
- Kojima is fired from Konami. The news comes out on April 27th 2015 that Silent Hills is cancelled. Everyone is butthurt.
- Kojima and co. are also butthurt. They wanted to do a horror game for year, and still want to do it.
- Kojima decides to continue work on a spirtual successor to Silent Hills, yet is aware how litigious Konami can be with thinks that even vaguely resemble or imply the license, even when not for profit (i.e the kid getting cease and desisted for making a P.T game). He is now personally fueding with Konami, so believes that any attempt to make a similar game will incur their legal wrath. He will be accused of stealing ideas, assets etc. from Silent Hills development, and will likely be crushed by Konami's superior legal capabilities to his now indie studio. Remember how Kojima needed to go through the backdoor to sneak P.T onto PSN without Konami realising?
- Kojima begins work on Death Stranding, a huge project with Norman Reedus attached. This creates the public image of Silent Hills being killed off. The project is over, and Reedus and Del Toro are working on this in some capacity. Konami forgets about the cancelled game.
- Simultaneously, Kojima creates a satellite studio in Leiden, Netherlands. This gives Kojima access to the Decima engine with Guerilla games. But, it also provides Kojima with the staff, space and resources to have multiple projects running at once.
- This new studio is adjacent to whoever Hasan and Blue Box are, who already operate out of the area.
- Kojima comes in as the mystery buyer who pays off Blue Box and scrapes their entire presence off the internet by cancelling the 'Rewind' game, an obvious P.T Clone.
- Blue Box state they are not able to discuss the circumstances of how Rewind was cancelled, but elevated to an AAA PS5 exclusive by the private investor.
- Kojima and co. now begin developing a spiritual successor to Silent Hills in Leiden. News coming from KojiPro for the next handful of years is all Death Stranding updates. The game gets collab DLCs, PC port etc. Everybody is distracted.
- The Blue Box/Hasan identity is used to cover up the fact that this game is being made. It's largely developed in Leiden, but Kojima is tweeting as Hasan/BB during times that only make sense if you live in Japan. Having this other studio operating in Leiden allegedly developing the Abandoned game means that Konami have no reason to ever suspect it's related to Silent Hills. They probably never even hear about it until now, when the game is nearing completion.
- The purpose of this marketing campaign is to drag the game as close to reveal as possible without exposing its true nature. In this scenario, Konami don't really have any grounds to look into it. It will be announced and then quickly released as a new Kojima horror IP, right under the nose of Konami. It's finished and ready to distribute, and they cant do much to try and sabotage it at such a late juncture, years after the cancellation of Silent Hills.
- Geoff Keighley now tells us ''it's not what you think it is''. He isn't wrong, because the project isn't Silent Hills. This is why he's not exactly denying it, and acts like Hasan is special. He didn't debunk the theories; he told us the truth that the project isn't Silent Hills, it's a game VERY similar to Silent Hills.
PART 2 - NOW FOR THE EVEN MORE STUPID AND ESOTERIC STUFF:
Next we are going to analyse some potential hidden messages in P.T. I believe these go beyond what people have already theorised, given the new context of recent events with Abandoned. P.T is packed with stuff that seems to make it an autobiographical telling of Kojima's relationship with Konami. This has been established for years, making it a valid source of clues. Here are some very cryptic quotes from P.T (The game itself as well as the studio page and trailers. They might be worded slightly wrong but the meanings are 100% the same):
''I WALKED, AND THEN I SAW MYSELF WALKING IN FRONT OF ME. EXCEPT IT WASN'T ME. WILL YOU DECIPHER THE ENIGMA?'' - Text in P.T trailer. Seems to be from the perspective of the developer
''THE GAP IN THE DOOR, IT'S A SEPARATE REALITY. THE ONLY ME IS ME; ARE YOU SURE THE ONLY YOU IS YOU?' - Spoken by that creepy paper bag full of blood in P.T, to the player character who is assumedly a stand in for Kojima.
Explanation? Well, these quotes contain a lot of allusions to parallel worlds, alternate versions of the self, false identity etc. P.T had a fake studio to release it, but the quotes don't really fit that well with it based on that alone. After all, 7780s was pretty low effort and simple to solve. It was already heavily rumoured that he was making a Silent Hill, and they didn't attach fake developer names to it. Hideo never changed or made a new identity, so the quotes aren't applicable. All that happened was they didn't say Kojima was involved. That isn't the same thing at all.
HOWEVER, these quotes are completely applicable to the ARG that may be occuring now. Hideo has faked an identity, becoming Hasan Kahraman. Both in the sense that he is pretending to be this other person, but the other person has a name that TRANSLATES DIRECTLY INTO ''HIDEO'', making them ALTERNATE VERSIONS OF THE SAME PERSON. ''I walked and then I saw myself walking in front of me'' could be referring to how Hideo was on a journey (to the netherlands?) and spotted somebody who was just like him but not him (Hasan, a game developer with the same name).
The paper bag is SPEAKING TO the protagonist/developer. It taunts them by saying ''are you sure the only you is you?''. This is an external party attacking how Hideo has become Hasan. It is a scary concept for Kojima because he is in a stressful situation of having to hide Hasan/Blue Box to make his passion project. The bag is filled with blood, and appears to have some kind of organ pulsing in it. It is potentially representing the part of Kojima that has been separated from him.
BUT IT GETS EVEN CRAZIER THAN THIS. Because there is another quote from P.T that adds a fucking huge layer to this whole thing:
''MY VOICE, CAN YOU HEAR IT? MY SIGN, CAN YOU READ IT? I'LL WAIT FOREVER IF YOU JUST COME TO ME....HER WORDS, WHERE DO THEY LEAD? BE THE FIRST IN THE WORLD TO FIND OUT'' - Taken from the P.T store page on PSN.
So what's the signfiicance of this? First of all, who is ''HER''. That is almost certainly referring to LISA, the pregnant woman who appears to have been murdered in the backstory to P.T. What's the meaning of the living foetus? Well, it's been speculated by many since years ago that LISA represents Kojima, who is developing (Pregnant with) the Foetus (The game Silent Hills). LISA is murdered, representing Konami killing off the project, and the Foetus is ripped from her. IT'S STILL ALIVE THOUGH AND CRYING IN P.T. IF THE FOETUS REPRESENTS SILENT HILLS, THEN IT EXPLICITLY ISN'T ACTUALLY DEAD. IT IS ALIVE OUTSIDE OF THE ORIGINAL WOMB (identity of the person developing it).
AND NOW WE KNOW THERE ARE TWO SEPERATE REALITIES. TWO VERSIONS OF KOJIMA; HIM AND THE ONE THAT ISN'T ACTUALLY HIM. BECAUSE IT'S HER! THE PLAYER CHARACTER AND LISA ARE TWO PARTS OF THE SAME WHOLE. LISA IS THE ORIGINAL WHO HAD THE GAME REMOVED FROM THEM, AND THE PLAYER CHARACTER IS THE CONFUSING NEW IDENTITY THAT IS CREATED SO THAT KOJIMA CAN CONTINUE.
Also adding to this is the fact that you can't see the face of the P.T player character. Kinda like Hasan is keeping hidden, huh? So let's go back to that quote and analyse what it could tell us. The quote is LISA (OG KOJIMA) calling out, asking if she can be heard, saying she will wait forever for the other person to find them. And the other person (THE PLAYER CHARACTER AKA HASAN AKA HIDEO'S SEPERATE REALITY AKA THE NOT REALLY ME BUT ME) answers back with:
''I'M WAITING HIDEO''. The translation of the new name represents an answer to the question asked by Kojima to himself in the P.T Game. The two halves that split to ensure the development of his horror IP passion project are now coming back together. Hasan is no longer abandoned. No longer seperate. The question is answered and Kojima will end his identity confusion by revealing that the foetus of Silent Hill still lives, hidden in the Blue Box (a fraud device that conceals an identity via telephone).
AND LAST BUT NOT AT ALL LEAST.....How does The Death Stranding Directors Cut play into all this? Think about it; the title of the game makes no sense. Kojima had free reign to make whatever game he wanted with that. It's an extremely avant garde title for a triple A game, packed with Kojima-isms. Well, if you think about it, the title might make complete sense. Why was Death Stranding Directors Cut teased with such a vague trailer that hid pretty much all detail about the new content? Why does Death Stranding still get support to this day; new versions and ports and DLC and added contet...it's a damn single player game, and it's not exactly Skyrim.
Well, that's because DEATH STRANDING THE DIRECTORS CUT MAY NOT EVEN EXIST. There is one way of interpreting the term ''Directors Cut'', that actually makes sense. The definition is the true artwork that the director wanted to make. But remember, Death Stranding may have been an indie game that Kojima had control over, BUT IT WASN'T THE GAME HE TRULY WANTED TO MAKE AT THAT POINT. DEATH STRANDING WAS A PLAN B HAVING LOST THE ABILITY TO MAKE SILENT HILLS. THE ''DIRECTORS CUT'' OF DEATH STRANDING IS ACTUALLY THE HORROR GAME THAT THE DIRECTOR WAS ORIGINALLY TRYING TO MAKE BEFORE HIS STUDIO GOT INVOLVED.
This is why info about the game is hidden. It's not real. This is why it's being plugged at the same time that the abandoned rumours are heating up, yet Kojima isn't acknowledging it. This is why Death Stranding is still being expanded upon for some reason. This is why Sony aren't shutting the speculation down. It is a Sony x Kojima PS5 NEW HORROR IP, with no connection to Konami. It has been made in secret to avoid their lawyers, using the cover of fake identities and games to divert attention away. Additionally, Part 2 of this theory still sort of works even if you assume Konami are involved and it is Silent Hill. Although, I don't know why someone would go to that effort. Part 1 is a suggestion that explains why he would do this to begin with.
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