"In the thickest of irony, Kojima made a single hallway into something lacking coherent direction." That was a really great line in a really great piece. For some reason I've been incredibly... nostalgic (?) for this game lately and so it's been nice to see a resurgence of people talking about it.

PT has to be the most influential horror game that never fully came out.

I always maintained that P.T. would outshine Silent HIlls in the end. These days i'm pretty certain the plan was always for it to disappear without a trace one day.

I just played this for the first time recently and I totally agree about the puzzles. They're only impressive and cool after you've looked up their answer. From a gameplay perspective, these things fail miserably. As a spectacle though, they perform perfectly. I never give Kojima when I can avoid it, but the guy made what is essentially an unfun game, a total landmark in gaming. The puzzles were nearly impossible to solve, but instead of people dropping out, they tried even harder to solve them. And with the teaser being the reward, i think he nailed the "pay off" part of the formula. After all that praise though, I'll admit that I think he trips head first into all this. I think his ideas had just as much of a chance of failing, and thanks to a few factors out of his control, they didn't. This kind of trick can't be pulled twice. So I guess I'm glad it ended up as positive as it did.

I wouldn't say there will never be anything like P.T. again, but only because P.T. itself was unpredictable as an experience. No one imagined that a playable teaser would shake up an entire gaming genre, particularly at the cusp of virtual reality returning to the gaming sphere. That it was unpredictable is why it made the splash it had. Which means if something emerges to shake things up in a similar fashion, it's probably something no one will predict. Good video, as always. I'll probably never play P.T., but I always like seeing people discuss it.

There is no clearer evidence to me that we live in a Dark Timeline than that a collaboration between Hideo Kojima, Guillermo del Toro, and Junji Ito almost happened and slipped away.

@enthymeme4856

3 жыл бұрын

I've gotta time leap to fix this!

There really aren't enough videos on pt, nice one.

PT put together a number of things that were floating around in the zeitgeist at the time. Using realistic graphics to violate expectations, cryptic puzzles, impossible space, and jump scares. None of those were groundbreaking things but being put together with Triple A polish made it a touchstone moment. And of course the cramped nature of the demo was a neat gimmick too. As mentioned, the cryptic aspect didn't make it an approachable walk-through. Which is why I loved Capcom's answer to PT, Beginning Hour and the Baker Estate. Just as PT wasn't... 'consistent' with Silent Hill, Beginning Hour teed up a Resident Evil game that wasn't typical either. Good video!

I think because of all the reasons mentioned in the video that PT itself is one of the best games ever made. The fact that its influence is still felt after it was basically eradicated from its platform is incredible. Its influence is so strong, in fact, that it’s been released on a vinyl record of all things.

The one that got away. Great video! I will always watch a great video on PT so thank you

@PostMesmeric

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yeah, it's a really lost treasure, that P.T.

Very good video dude. Can't believe the game has been a "thing" for so long already. I hope another experience like P.T. captures me soon

2:11 Okay great video and all, but you know those cockroaches aren't malformed, they're just mating, right? Probably a metaphor for the main characters marriage or something.

PT would of been one of the best horror games ever made.