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Bansi

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Hideo Kojima appears to have snuck a Silent Hill message into his OD trailer | VGC

Kojima was working on Silent Hills until it was cancelled…

The Xbox exclusive, which was previously known as Overdose, was officially introduced during The Game Awards last week, along with a teaser trailer showing close-ups of actors' faces.

However, as spotted by Central Xbox, and verified by VGC using the trailer on the official Kojima Productions YouTube channel, the section involving German actor Udo Kier appears to have a hidden message in it.

While Kier is talking to the camera, faint letters appear in his mouth during five separate frames, which can be seen easier if the video's brightness levels are adjusted (as we've done in the header image of this article, where you can see the letter A).

In order, the letters spell out 'Atami', which is a Japanese city located in Shizuoka Prefecture. The kanji spelling of Shizuoka is 静岡, and when separated into individual kanji, 静 means 'calm', 'quiet' or 'silent' and 岡 means 'hill'.
 

Wrexis

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While [Udo] Kier is talking to the camera, faint letters appear in his mouth during five separate frames

In order, the letters spell out 'Atami', which is a Japanese city located in Shizuoka Prefecture. The kanji spelling of Shizuoka is 静岡, and when separated into individual kanji, 静 means 'calm', 'quiet' or 'silent' and 岡 means 'hill'.

Some sort of...Silent...Hill?
My god Kojima's a genius. /s

Well if there was any doubt that this game is Silent Hills...
Exclusive to Xbox I assume?
 

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I cannot see those faint letters at all no matter how hard I try.

Side note, so were those the actors actual faces or were they video game models?
 
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Sacul64

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I thought his entrance onto the stage, with the door creaking open, was reminiscent of PT.

First thing I saw.
 

Frieza

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It's pretty clear that this game will be the Silent Hill game that Kojima wasn't able to make
 

Mary Celeste

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Not sure we needed this hint to clarify that this game will be the revival of the ideas from SH/PT but good fun anyway
 

skeptem

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PT - OD

I feel like we already see a close connection, but this is an interesting addition.
 

CloseTalker

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Man alive, if Kojima's Silent Him is a thing again, and it's an Xbox exclusive, that's a pretty big get

edit I saw the screen shots of these letters. Jesus, who finds these things??
 

eso76

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I mean, inevitably some (or many) ideas and scenarios he had in mind for SH will end up in this, but it's probably going to be a very different game from what SH would have been.

in any case, bring on the carnival of stupid. I'm ready for months of crazy Kojima theories
 
Feb 5, 2018
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More of a meta question. If OD actually is Silent Hill, does that mean Konami and Kojima are on working terms again? Could he potentially then, for example, work on an MGS6 or even fix V lol?

Ill snort all the copium I can get.
 

Magneto

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Why you gotta derail the carnival of stupid?

Hey ERA, here's the Overdose logo from the leaked footage of a close playtest, sometime ago.

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And here's Silent Hill's classic Halo of the Sun you see throughout the games' save points and various other locations.

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Let the madness continue...
I like that idea, so it has to be true
 

Markratos

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Imagine if Xbox gets a Silent Hills exclusive from Kojima, while Sony is releasing the sequel to the delivery man.
 

NightShift

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Off brand Silent Hill let's go!

Honestly if OD is set in a town that is just evil and fucks with the people who it can exploit with past trauma than that's good enough for me. Everything Konami is working on can fuck off. My love for Silent Hill as a series comes purely from the concept of Silent Hill itself and none of the specifics.