P.T. - Thoughts · 12:01am Aug 21st, 2014
Back-to-back blogs that have nothing to do with each other? Surely you jest!
No, I'm not jesting. However because not a lot of people read my blogs, I decided to see if I could post more interesting stuff to get you guys chiming in (I'm more for the conversations had than the actual view count). That's why I started Unpopular Opinions, by the way. With that being said, here are my feelings about P.T. For those of you who have not played or seen this game yet, THAR BE SPOILERS AHEAD just so you know.
What is P.T., you may ask? Well, recently there was a game released free for the PS4, under the name of (you guessed it) "P.T." developed by an unknown company. The game is repetitive; the only objective seems to be running down the exact same hallway over and over and over. Only it's not the exact same hallway. Really creepy and fucked up shit starts happening, and slowly what seems like a brief backstory begins to form based on evidence that starts popping up around the house. And all this time there is no in game description, no help text, no HUD, no nothing. It's first-person perspective so you have no idea what your character looks like. And as much as I am an Xbox fanboy, I do not deny that the graphics on the PS4 are fucking amazing in this game, even for how short it is. Anyway, the only way to unlock the "real" ending to the game is to solve a puzzle with no hints, no help, and (almost) no chance of solving it at all. It's entirely based on circumstance and whether or not you can piece together certain events that occur in order to get a final message and access the "end" of the game.
What is at the end? A cinematic cutscene of a man stumbling through a dark, empty town. The man turns to look at the camera, and holy fucking monkey on a stick, is that...
It is. It motherfucking is.
I'll admit I had a bit of a fangasm when I saw that. Even more so when this little beauty popped up next:
Yup, "P.T." actually stands for "Playable Teaser," and the whole game is essentially a tech demo/teaser trailer for a new Silent Hill game, being produced by Hideo Kojima (of Metal Gear fame) and Guillermo del Toro.
This game is one of the scariest fucking games I've ever seen, and honestly I wish I could have played it in order to get the full experience (same with Five Nights at Freddy's). For such a short, nondescript tech demo, it's terrifying, it's gorgeous, and it's mysterious as all hell (but then again that's nothing new in the Silent Hill world). This game really makes me want a PS4, just so I can play it. I'm not typically a fan of actually playing horror games as I am a fan of watching YouTubers shit their pants playing them while I shit my pants watching them, but I'd buy a PS4 for this game. This playable teaser, despite having pretty much nothing to do with Silent Hill at all (except for the end, when it reveals that it has everything to do with Silent Hill) is so visually splendid, so terrifyingly intense, and so enthrallingly engaging that I want it. I WANT IT NOW.
But I'll probably end up watching Markiplier or theRadBrad play it. But there's nothing wrong with that. I think.
Anyway, I highly recommend any PS4 users to play this game, any Silent Hill fans who have not checked this out to please check it out, and fans of horror games to do the same. It is awesome.
Coming soon, I will be posting a blog on my personal theories about what some of the stuff in PT might mean, a sort of analysis of the game that might shed a little light on what we might see in the final product. Until then, Brex out!
This is the most exciting blog I've seen in a while.