Hideo Kojima has expressed interest in pursuing the horror genre later down the line, though admitted he probably won’t produce something like Playable Teaser (P.T., the demo for Silent Hills) again.
Speaking with Polygon, the Metal Gear creator ruled out Silent Hills ever happening again, though wasn’t about to dismiss the idea of working within the confines of the horror genre at some point.
“P.T. in a way for us was also an experiment to understand many things. Silent Hills, I don’t think that will ever happen. I would definitely like to explore horror and by horror I don’t mean horror as a genre, but more like the feeling of terror as a theme, as a topic and this is one aspect that gets really close to interactivity of scariness so that is something I would be interested in exploring in the future.”
“After P.T. there were similar games that were released or were developed. Personally, I don’t want to do something that is in the same tone, I would prefer to do something that takes a different approach and a different perspective to it," he added.
The legendary developer also made it clear he’s not keen on looking back at the problems that unfolded at Konami last year.
“To be honest, I don’t want to look back. I just want to move forward.”
Silent Hill was a collaboration with Kojima-san, actor Norman Reedus and Hollywood director, Guillermo del Toro, and was conceived as a reboot of Konami’s long-running psychological horror franchise. Sadly, the game was canceled in wake of the falling out between Kojima-san and Konami.
The Metal Gear maestro later departed the Japanese video game publisher to set up his own, independent version of Kojima Productions. His first project will be a PlayStation 4 exclusive, though details remain under wraps at present.
Pleasingly, Kojima-san has said he’s still keen on working with Reedus at some point.