Blue Box’s abandoned project and its connection to Silent Hill and Kojima have been on the agenda for some time. Actors like to come up with conspiracy theories, especially when the name Kojima comes into play, and the chances of them coming true are quite high. However, for those of you who have never followed the subject or missed the point, let’s summarize the Blue Box case.
The origin of the event is a PlayStation 5 game called Abandoned, which Sony Group Corp. announced in April, which is being developed by a small studio called Blue Box Game Studios.
In fact, doubts over the Blue Box began with the announcement of the game. Who was this studio? How could he suddenly sign with Sony and announce an exclusive game? But the real bomb went off with a message from the studio’s Twitter account. This tweet, which was later deleted, said Abandoned was just a code name, with the game’s original title starting with an S and ending with an L. When the nickname of the game was Abandoned and both the images in the trailer and the letters S and L came together, suddenly it was emerged that the game was the new Silent Hill game expected from Kojima. The trailer, which has not received much attention to date, has suddenly reached over 1 million views.
That’s where the real conspiracy theories broke out. First Blue Box tweeted, “We wanted to correct misunderstandings. Konami and I have no relationship. Konami also owns the Silent Hill brand. Hideo Kojima and I don’t have any relationship. We had no intention of evoking the name Silent Hill. We apologize in all sincerity.” Once you say, It starts with an S, it ends with L, and then it’s like, We didn’t want to evoke Silent Hill, that’s, but let’s put that aside.
/r/GamingLeaksandRumours has been scouring the Reddit channel for information about the game and its producer. The founder of Blue Box was named Hasan Kahraman; No one had seen Hasan Kahraman, there was no information in the environment about the studio, which is said to employ 50 people, it was not clear who was working or where he was working. Some of the employee pictures on the Linkedin page turned out to be stock pictures. Hasan Kahraman’s YouTube channel Twentyseven27 was said to have pointed to april 27, when the Silent Hills project was cancelled. The most interesting thing was that the Turkish translation of the word Hideo was Hero.
I mean, up to this point, it all seems to indicate that this is a Hideo Kojima pastime, right?
Kojima showed the trailer for Metal Gear SoliD V: The Phantom Pain in 2012 with a video showing the logo of a fictitious company called Moby Dick Studio. He even hired an actor to play the role of joakim mogren, the company’s CEO, who even gave interviews. The word “Joakim” is an anagram of the word “Kojima”. Kojima also used a fake company name for the 2014 P.T. demo.
Today Hasan Hero appeared and posted a video. “As you can see, I’m a real person, not a fake. I’m not Hideo Kojima at all.”
Jason Schreier then met with Hasan. “No matter how much I try to disprove all these rumors, I can’t. People don’t believe it. They believe in something that’s not there, and it bothers me.” Schreier says Hasan has a Dutch accent. The Blue Box team was actually 10, and he said there was a team of 50 because most of the work was outsourced to other studios. Sony also attracted interest in 2015. Two of the external studios hasan named nuare studios and dekogon studios declined to talk about the issue, by the way.
At this point, there is also an interesting detail, which is that the KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS (Eng) account liked the video published by Hasan Kahraman:) So while Hasan Kahraman tries to deny the incident, Kojima continues to fuel the fire. The video was released at 2:41 a.m. Dutch time (9:41 a.m. in Japan).
So at this point, no one can say, “Abandoned is definitely not Silent Hill, Kojima is not going to get out of this.” But he certainly can’t say Silent Hill is. But whatever Abandoned is now, it’s fair to say that it’s doing a great viral commercial. It’s going to be very disappointing if it turns out the game isn’t Silent Hill, and that’s probably not going to be good for Blue Box. In that case, we’ll have to wait and see if they regret that “first letter S, last letter L” message.
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