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P.T's hidden meaning by theGrateDebate
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I think the biggest research this video makes is going to the Konami website and sifting through their annual reports. Most of the actual investigative journalism of it was already done by Super Bunnyhop and the author of the book that details it.
This is more like detective work putting the various investigative journo pieces together and with a conspiracy at hand. A plausible conspiracy though. The overall message in the video is still a theory rather than a series of conclusive facts from new sources.
Kojima knowing Silent Hills was never going to come to fruition better explains the 2013-2014 location scouting and obvious Death Stranding concept art hidden in PT much better. He's been thinking of Death Stranding for a long time.
However right you may be, their work is flawless. I saw both parts of Tomm Hulett tragedy, and the work they've done to show just how wrong the fandom was about him, is enough for me to put them on a high pedesal. Higher than the rest.
I think it was a video that had to be made but to be honest all you get is what Tom Huelett says. Producers are adept at PR. He obviously did not deserve the flack he got as a person, but I wasn't convinced that "all of it wasn't true" and I felt the video, much like this one drives too fast towards a point it wants to make, and will cherry pick facts from the research to prove it. It doesn't mean it's false but it isn't really proof.
I don't know how much of the video is true and I don't know when it happened but I certainly have been convinced ever since E3 2016 that Kojima had some backdoor shady deals with Sony well before all the official fallout stuff with Konami happened. The pre-production stuff of DS and overall smoothness for the transition of the studio to pumping out a big budget game with big names attached was way, way too fast for it to be something that the crew came up in way less than a year.
Ultimately, this not only explains so many of the weird lines and choices in PT, but also more importantly why Konami took the unpopular decision to kill it from the store.
They found out.
They found out.
Great video that brings up a lot of interesting points.
However I think the overall theory that PT is meta commentary about Kojima leaving Konami more than an actual teaser for Silent Hills is too far fetched. It makes more sense to me that KojiPro wanted to announce and release PT so people know about it before Silent Hills gets cancelled and hoping the attention would change Konami's mind. There's also too much of a solid narrative in the game for it to hinge on metaphor.
However I think the overall theory that PT is meta commentary about Kojima leaving Konami more than an actual teaser for Silent Hills is too far fetched. It makes more sense to me that KojiPro wanted to announce and release PT so people know about it before Silent Hills gets cancelled and hoping the attention would change Konami's mind. There's also too much of a solid narrative in the game for it to hinge on metaphor.
If you like this guy's style and content, you should check out his main channel. He has done a ton of videos from over the years, all with similarly good production values too.
I'm amazed at just how much sense this makes.
This is nonsense. They used a variety of sources beyond Hulett himself.
If anyone wants some more in-depth stuff regarding Silent Hill, not only has the other member of the Grate Debate, VoidBurger, made an EXCELLENT, super high effort Let's play of Silent Hill 2, she's currently making ANOTHER amazing and high effort let's play of Silent Hill 3!
It's got two versions with completely different commentary styles and jokes, with one being a no-spoiler playthrough with subtitles, and the other being a voiced commentary with this video's maker, BobVids!
The Silent Hill 2 Let's Play is one of the best ones I have ever seem, and has a level of quality practically never seen in other let's plays on the Internet, so I'm really excited for the SH3 one, especially since it's first episodes and bonus video are already so good!
Check it out and support her Patreon!
It's got two versions with completely different commentary styles and jokes, with one being a no-spoiler playthrough with subtitles, and the other being a voiced commentary with this video's maker, BobVids!
The Silent Hill 2 Let's Play is one of the best ones I have ever seem, and has a level of quality practically never seen in other let's plays on the Internet, so I'm really excited for the SH3 one, especially since it's first episodes and bonus video are already so good!
Check it out and support her Patreon!
This video grow on me the hate for Konami even more. Activision seems an innocent child compared their new leadership. It's clear AAA games by them won't happen anymore with such people still in charge.
Just... wow! I'm stunned on with all the info, connections, and hard work this investigation suddenly threw us!! I even had to see it TWICE to catch all of that!
The thing that stands the most for me is the Deja Vu mission and how it fits with everything else: When it came out (and the whole Kojima vs. Konami was widely known) it seemed weird to me that the canon Metal Gear games were the ones being erased with the lights, but NOW it's so obvious: You can't erase Kojima without taking with him the soul of the real Metal Gear games.
What an incredible video!
The thing that stands the most for me is the Deja Vu mission and how it fits with everything else: When it came out (and the whole Kojima vs. Konami was widely known) it seemed weird to me that the canon Metal Gear games were the ones being erased with the lights, but NOW it's so obvious: You can't erase Kojima without taking with him the soul of the real Metal Gear games.
What an incredible video!
A lot of great points but also a lot of weak inferences. P.T. was most certainly a Silent Hills teaser but it's fine to suggest the content of the teaser was semi-autobiographical.
I think it suggests Kojima knew Silent Hills would never actually be developed.
I am sorry for bumping, but I just watched this video on YouTube and I was impressed, so better to bump than start a new topic.
Some people may have missed it. Enjoy!
Some people may have missed it. Enjoy!