It's no secret that Arcane is a huge success, but seeing someone as established and beloved as Hideo Kojima praising it in such ways speaks volumes about what Riot is capable of doing. Here's to hoping that season 2 and any future animations keep up the same level of quality!
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I personally think Slitterhead looks amazing. Of course after PT and being a Kojima fanboy, I want Silent Hills as much as anyone else. But we have a new Japanese horror IP from the actual creator and composer of Silent Hill on the horizon. How is this community not losing it? Whatβre your thoughts on Slitterhead? I know itβs early to say but so far it personally reminds me of Siren, Silent Hill and the Parasyte (anime) combined. Really excited for this one.
>Oshii commented: "I thought it was a return to The Matrix's roots. It's closest to the pleasure principle the Wachowskis were aiming for in the first film. I was also surprised at how the filming style has not changed. The reason why 'those two' absolutely had to be there was also depicted very thoroughly. If either Keanu Reeves or Carrie-Anne Moss were absent, it would have fallen apart. For everyone who has ever wanted to see Keanu and Carrie in another Matrix film, this film is undoubtedly for you."
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>Kojima commented: "This film is not a sequel. It is not a remake or a prequel either. It is a uniquely ambitious film that returns to the roots of The Matrix, which was a monumental sci-fi that blurred the lines between reality and fiction (the "Matrix"). Resurrection not only connects the real and Matrix worlds, it further ties in the metatextual layer of The Matrix trilogy. Do you choose the red pill or the blue pill? Through the savior's ultimate choice, you'll see Lana Wachowski's true intention behind directing a 'modern' Matrix film."
This is a fairly long post, so let me know if there is any way I can improve the formatting! If you're already familiar with the general idea behind the Blue Box theories, you can skip to about point 7 for the juicier drama involving alleged credit card scams, "butterscotch goblins", and subreddit closures.
Some of you may remember that there has been a hubbub in certain corners of the video game community over an upcoming game called "Abandoned", which some people speculate is part of an ARG by Hideo Kojima to market a new Silent Hill game. What follows is a discussion of the various subreddits which have been devoted to speculation on this game and how they each (probably) met their end. There are three subreddits to keep track of:
/r/TheBlueBoxConspiracy. The original and largest subreddit dedicated to the Abandoned topic. Mods must manually approve all posts. No more approvals are being given so the sub is effectively dead.
/r/BlueBoxConspiracy. A spin-off subreddit from the original of about half the size. Had a looser moderation policy to start but is now explicitly "shut down" by the moderators.
/r/Kojimbox. The newest and smallest subreddit, spun off of /r/BlueBoxConspiracy. Now private as of the last 24 hours.
So how did we get from Abandoned being a hotbed of speculation to the subject of three closed subreddits?
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April 2021 The upcoming horror game "Abandoned" is announced by an obscure Dutch game company, Blue Box Game Studios, via a trailer on the PlayStation YouTube channel and a press release. Some people think that the trailer has similarities to the Silent Hill franchise, which was most recently attached to Hideo Kojima though the "Playable Teaser" for the cancelled Silent Hills. Others think that the connections to Silent Hill are a reach and the "Abandoned" trailer looks like a low-budget production. The SRD post about the beginning of the saga, which has more details. Eventually the Kojima theory starts to pick up some minor attention from the mainstream gaming media.
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The only known employee of Blue Box, named Hasan Kahraman, starts to notice the attention that the Abandoned trailer was getting and appears to lean into the rumors of Silent Hill involvement by tweeting that the "name" of the game "starts with an
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