Do y’all keep in mind that interactive Silent Hill present that premiered final November and was actual unhealthy? Do you know it was nonetheless going for a number of months earlier than its last chapter premiered on Could 2? I had fully wiped Silent Hill: Ascension from my reminiscence, however now that I’ve realized that there was apparently a contest to have customized characters seem within the sport as NPCs, I can’t cease enthusiastic about it. That’s as a result of followers are speculating that viewers managed to get characters modeled after Hideo Kojima, who’s famously estranged from Silent Hill developer Konami, into Ascension.
I first took discover of this when a fan of streamer Tremendous Eyepatch Wolf famous the phenomenon on X (previously Twitter). I needed to see what was up as a result of the concept somebody might have gotten one character that appeared like Kojima into the present was hilarious, however that it might have been a number of appeared virtually inconceivable. Fortunately, he’s uploaded VODs for his stream on YouTube. On the 3:20 mark, Tremendous Eyepatch Wolf stops the sport fully as a long-haired man who appears loads like Kojima exhibits up in a scene.
Another appearances of “Kojima-likes” don’t fairly seem like the Loss of life Stranding developer. Those Tremendous Eyepatch Wolf questions on the 51:49 and 1:01:13 marks solely actually resemble him in that in addition they put on glasses, however that one at 3:20 appears a lot nearer, simply with some actual luxurious locks to go along with it. A part of me wonders if that is simply Silent Hill: Ascension’s character creation instruments being very restricted, so characters find yourself sharing a handful of traits that occur to overlap with Kojima’s look, such because the glasses and beard. However the thought that even one particular person particularly wished to place the developer in his previous employer’s sport as an act of protest is an amusing one.
Kojima’s falling out with Konami was closely publicized and speculated on again in 2015. It acquired so ugly that Geoff Keighley, who not often talks about something unsavory happening within the business, known as out Konami throughout The Recreation Awards that yr. Whereas Kojima is most frequently related to Metallic Gear, considered one of his final initiatives underneath Konami was Silent Hills, a canceled sport co-directed with Pan’s Labyrinth and The Form of Water filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. The 2 would later go on to collaborate on Loss of life Stranding, with del Toro being the mannequin for the character Deadman.
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