In case you haven’t heard, Konami are kind of imploding into an amorphous pile of fuck at the the moment. Rumors of an uneasy divorce between the company and Hideo Kojima (likely spelling doom for the supposed new Metal Gear Solid, as well as any future additions to the franchise) have been circulating like petulant, pithy tornadoes and the P.T. demo has been pulled from the Playstation Store. For those who don’t know, the P.T. demo was a weird, willfully ambiguous corridor-em-up which wasn’t anywhere near as scary or interesting as it seemed to think it was.
A brief dive into the annals of YouTube will lead you to a smattering of let’s plays attempting to unlock the puzzle of the bizarre demo. Anyway it turned out it was a kind of interactive trailer for Silent Hills, a new installation to the company’s other heavyweight franchise, one which boasted involvement from Guillermo Del Toro and Norman Reedus from The Walking Dead. Both of them have since given statements that the project is dead in the water, as have Konami. Suggestions that the company are taking a big step away from console gaming (they don’t really need it, they make far more money from mobile gaming and gambling machines in Japan) seem pretty well grounded, but it’s still sad to see promising projects fizzle. Of course lamentation didn’t stop Mega64 from issuing the company a timely savaging.
The Mega64 team have never shied away from hitting where it hurts, but this latest video is on a different level, especially considering that Hideo Kojima himself made an amusing cameo appearance in one of their older vids. This one acts as a spoof of the P.T. demo, seeing a player desperately trying to navigate to his computer so he can log into eBay and sell his PS4. It manages to brutally bash both the demo itself and the entire decline of Konami in one fell swoop. An amusing summary of a poignant, if tragic milestone in modern gaming.
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