Game developer Hideo Kojima has shared new details about one of his upcoming games, the horror title OD that he’s making in partnership with Xbox. In addition to calling it “a new game system,” he said it includes a feature for people who might get too scared by it.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Kojima said his aim with the game was to “do something new” and “do something different.” He said he first came up with the concept for OD when he was making the original Death Stranding years ago.
“I can’t reveal much detail, but it’s something that no one has ever seen before. A new game system,” he said. A new image has been released as well.
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Kojima went on to say he pitched OD to “many people,” including “the big companies” and “the up-and-coming companies.” Every company he pitched to told him the same thing. “They said that I’m crazy, and that they really don’t understande the concept–that they will not be able to do it,” he said.
The game was greenlit at Xbox under the leadership of former Xbox boss Phil Spencer. Asha Sharma is now Xbox CEO, and she called OD a “deeply moving game,” going on to say it “represents another kind of game.”
OD will be a scary game, and that’s plainly obvious from seeing the trailer, and it will be a single-player game. Kojima said the aim is to make the game “as scary as possible,” but he’s also come up with a system for scaredy cats.
“For those that might stop playing when it gets too scary, I have thought of a system that will allow them to keep going. I can’t say much more, because it’ll give too much of a hint on the system, and I could get in trouble for saying too much,” he said.
Sharma also went on to say that OD is an example of how Xbox has “not reached the boundary of games” just yet. She said one of her goals as Xbox CEO is to make sure Xbox is a platform that is “sufficiently open” to developers of all types, so that “the next Kojima” could potentially have success on Xbox.
OD features celebrity actors, including Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schafer, and the late Udo Kier. In addition to OD, Kojima is making the espionage game Phsyint for Sony.
