We have been practically since the minute after Death Stranding arrived in stores (in November 2019) speculating about what the next project of the Japanese genius will be , as used to surprising us as playing on social networks with messages that drive fans of the ex crazy by Konami. And now that it seems that things are clarified, it is Hideo Kojima himself who wants to close the leaks that have been opened with the latest leaks.
If you want to delete it, are you confirming it?
It is certain that the creator of the Metal Gear knows that maxim of the world of communication that comes to say that when information published in the media appears and you insist on wanting to hide it, you are openly confirming that what is being said is true. Or not? And something similar is what has happened after the cataract of news that have reached the media and that put name and surname to what seems to be the next Kojima Productions title.
In a message posted by Tom Henderson – a renowned journalist who has some important exclusives within the video game scene to his credit – on his official Twitter account, he explained that “Kojima Productions contacted [me] after the publication of email this article to request removal. I have denied the request .”
Now, from here on, events follow one another and two events occur that we can consider relevant, since both the message on the social network and the article itself have been deleted, so we can begin to imagine that in the end the pressures have been effective enough to make him change his mind. Has he deleted the information despite being true or because with the materials he had in his hand he was unable to correctly specify the final details of the game ?
What did the original article say?
Be that as it may, basically it gave several brushstrokes on what will be the next Japanese game, and it will not be Death Stranding 2 , for the moment. Its title will supposedly be Overdose, because according to Tom Henderson “the first images sent to me on request of anonymity appear to show Mama from Death Stranding in a blue dress. The game, however, does not appear to be Death Stranding 2. ”
What’s the point of Overdose then? Well, because that video to which the journalist seems to have had access shows “the character walking in the third person through dark corridors with a flashlight (although it has been suggested that the game can also be enjoyed in the first person). A scare at the end of the footage displays [the message] “GAMEOVER”, followed by ‘A Hideo Kojima Game’… ‘ OVERDOSE ‘ “.
Another detail that has been provided about this title is that the actress Margaret Qualley will appear again, who played Mama in Death Stranding and that, possibly, Microsoft has obtained some special treatment to take over this title preferentially (well exclusivity, well bonus content). We will see if something like this is confirmed because, remember, several online conferences will take place these days in which some important news could be known for the launches of the coming months.
