Abandoned: A Mystery Game Spirals Out of Control

[@NightMind]

Go to Surfshark.deals/nightmind and use code NIGHTMIND to get 83% off a 2-year plan and 3 extra months for free!

[@ionutcosmin4139]

no

[@LordLoki1232]

@@ionutcosmin4139 lol

[@ionutcosmin4139]

@@LordLoki1232 lmao

[@ionutcosmin4139]

wait why is this 10 hours ago

[@NightMind]

@@ionutcosmin4139 Sometimes it really isn't nice to blast everyone with a notification at like, 3:00 AM on a Wednesday night.

[@LeoBocock]

It's not often you see someone slip and fall and get accused of being Hideo Kojima

[@Robocopnik]

"What if they're Kojima?!" "What if I'm Kojima? Or you? Could go on all day."

[@KEEPTALKIN8215]

"That's kojima , he's kojima , your kojima is there anymore kojimas I need to know about"

[@MeanBeanComedy]

Kojima? I don't even know-a! 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@ICountFrom0]

I honestly feel like the private invester was Kojima, who just wanted to see what they'd make, and that the two have been playing with us, because they knew we'd go nutty over the similarities if they got noticed.

[@nerocross6454]

People say I look like Kojima so I actually I hear that a lot.

[@doomguy676]

This feels like an arg where everyone is bad at everything.

[@JDM-is-my-name]

That'd be hilarious, if not a hit disappointing

[@Pink000h]

So just an arg then?

[@kos2919]

To be honest a comedic ARG sounds fun. Imagine a clumsy demonic entity trying to scare people but always mess up

[@zehkiel8018]

@@kos2919 Marble Hornets Bloopers Reel

[@davidstuckey9289]

So, an ARG version of "Prometheus"?

[@ethanstanley6452]

I was sorta under the impression that Abandoned was going to be a horror ARG about people being actually shoved into a terrible video game environment to be "realistic" as you watch actual people run from their danger.

[@70sman]

Now that's a cool idea!

[@Hexxstaff]

I need this!

[@midgematic8659]

Imagine though if an ARG was actually real and we just all assumed it was a fictional story

[@clutterbot7279]

i thought it was going to be the same thing at first!

[@PJGuy2k]

Sooo Black Mirror S1 Episode 2 lmao

[@culwin]

It's so obvious what this game is a sequel for. Sonic spinbalL

[@Roadent1241]

Oh THAT'S what SEGA's released secretly yesturday for his 30th~! 8D (Obviously they didn't but well done for the right sort of date XP Honestly another Spinball game would be good.)

[@jacknico1891]

KNACK 3 INCOMING BABY!!!!

[@rvfiasco]

THE HYPE IS REAL!!

[@quinnzykir]

I fookin wish

[@colinworks2550]

Sknack 3L

[@deppo436]

As someone who's trying to get into the field of Game Development, while I have no doubt the attention received would way too much at my current level, if I was called out for being Hideo Kojima, in a very I would feel very honoured.

[@rvfiasco]

One of the best comments I've read on the situation. No matter WHAT goes down, a genuine fire has been lit and I sincerely hope Konami takes notice and does whatever it takes to woo Kojima back and make SH with Junji Ito and Akira Yamoaka. That would completely be the most terrifying game ever made. Next level.

[@lookItUp91]

@@rvfiasco I bet I'm a bigger fan of mgs than u. ..... DS? IT WAS GOOD FOR 1 PLAY THROUGH

[@K.D.Meyers]

Found Hideo Kojima You can't stay hidden from me

[@noseriouslyimserious4073]

Sure thing, Mr Kojima. ;)

[@SerenaMidori]

Agreed on the idea this isn't a Silent Hill thing, it feels more like a different project with ARG elements that accidentally gave the wrong impression to fans. Orrr, it is a Silent Hill thing and they messed up by giving up too much, and now have to back pedal to save some face.

[@earthbound9999]

I think it's less that it gave the wrong impression and moreso that a lot of Silent Hill fans happen to be conspiracy nuts. Silent Hill fans have been spreading conspiracies and rumors about a new game for years now, and none of them have led anywhere. I have a strong feeling this is just another case of SH fans jumping the gun because we haven't had a good SH game since like 2005.

[@hanzoyamazaki2551]

This is most defintely a Kojima thing it's as clear as day I been to the adress the company is located its a apartment building adress registered to one Kahraman but this same Kahraman today had Nuare the big art Outsourcing studio's which only work on triple A titles guess what titles they worked on aswel "Death Stranding" Why would this same Nuare company since yesterday unfollow 600 of there twitter account leaving only 8 or so with two being Hideo Kojima and Blue Box Game studios hello people "Wake Up" It's too obvious at this point. The demo we saw the forest was a procedural generated forest you can buy for 35,48 € of the unreal engine site "Hello you still with me!"

[@joey199412]

@@hanzoyamazaki2551 >The demo we saw the forest was a procedural generated forest you can buy for 35,48 € of the unreal engine site This makes me think it has nothing to do with the silent hill project.

[@hanzoyamazaki2551]

The Devil's Advocate I know that's also a Kojima type of troll keep people's eyes focused where he wants them and people will not see the dancing gorrila on stage. The abandoned trailer has been pulled from PSstore so has the game just minutes ago.... Coincidence

[@GundamGokuTV]

@@earthbound9999 I mean "the name of the game starts with S and ends with L". Conspiracies aside they walked right into that one.

[@Ikcatcher]

I don’t know what’s scarier, being messed with by a mad Japanese developer yet again or realizing we are all just building hype for what is probably a bad game

[@Masterhitman935]

The latter

[@MasterCorvid]

Well this is Kojima, it'll probably be fucking terrifying, if the PT demo was anything to go off of.

[@DisGnome]

or worse yet, building hype for a "meh" game...like, a bad game you can mock but if its boring? That's worse

[@ratulsadid]

@@MasterCorvid Its not Kojima man the dev have reiterated that he has no association with Konami or Kojima

[@toumabyakuya]

@@ratulsadid And their evidence to back said argument is...?.

[@Red0543]

Remember, it’s always a good idea to T-pose when you’re ghost hunting in order to assert your dominance over the restless spirits!

[@jaythomas468]

It’s true, everyone knows ghosts respond similarly to bears

[@Zanytiger6]

In an emergency your body can double as a Crucifix!

[@grimbite5625]

@@Zanytiger6 This deserves an award

[@karenamyx2205]

@DeadbeatJean You think this was a legit comment and not a joke?? Is life weird having a rock for a brain?

[@tormentor2285]

basically you make a cross, therefore projecting the power of God. power of Kojima

[@kevinsundelin8639]

The most unbelievable thing is Night Mind doesn't think people skateboard anymore

[@_sleepyaisha_]

I froze when he talked about Blink-182 playing on the radio still because a couple of the stations me and my family listen to in the car play some of their songs.

[@JeanneFeisont]

Anyone who isn’t 12 doesn’t skate anymore, yes

[@kevinsundelin8639]

@@JeanneFeisontTony Hawk is 53 and he's still skating

[@theknightwhosaysni6318]

@@JeanneFeisont Welp I guess those Olympic skaters are fake then

[@trulyamateuranxiety]

@@JeanneFeisont college students

[@taytertotsasmr9702]

Sounds like an arg where the next level realistic graphics are actual people being pulled into the game

[@totallynotzokix11_mc21]

Realistically? Probably a dude who lied and stumbled his way ass-backwards into a lot of hype for what's probably gonna be a shit game. But IMAGINE if it was Kojima. That dude already is known for fucking with people, but this would be next-level. I sincerely hope I'm wrong but remember to keep your expectations realistic and low.

[@RodaMoonknight]

Another life of black Tiger

[@jpjp9111]

Koji who? Who is that?

[@PJGuy2k]

Keep your expectations low boy, and you'll never be disappointed

[@Tolinos20]

Kind of reminds me how no mans skys dev lied…was it a sony exclusive that one too?

[@TheQuietTyper]

Honestly, that's what I'm thinking too. I think it's one guy who realizes making good video games is hard, but also kind of living in a delusion that he's actually a big name developer.

[@anaiaram]

ok but it'd be actually hysterical if this was a scam that got mistaken for an arg "why are you withholding all this information, so mysterious, must be building up to some big reveal" BlueBox, sweating: "uh,, yeah exactly"

[@roonkolos]

Gotta love the name Abandoned ends up being rather fitting

[@FFKonoko]

Basically tempting fate as far as args go. Or early access games, tbh

[@ThatIsAName]

Finally, a horror story about scalpers

[@KomodoMagic]

Scalpers are demons in human form

[@Roxanneredpanda]

every story about scalpers is a horror story

[@Carnyzzle]

Scalpers are already enough of a horror story

[@AnomalyVoid]

It makes the most sense actually. Do we have any reason to believe that scalpers are human.

[@Kektus1]

@@dlog Because scalpers are scary and infuriating.

[@MrButterBread1]

If this isn’t a Silent Hill game. It really feels like this dev set himself up failure. Whether accidentally or not, I feel as if a lot of people will be mad when this is revealed as just another indie horror game.

[@MrButterBread1]

@@username65585 That seems like a reasonable explanation. I hope it doesn’t back fire for them, but angry gamers can be a force. I hope their game is great and sells well despite the controversy!

[@spacecrom6670]

That being said. After all this, if it is really Silent Hill. Everyone will just assume every new indy studio is Kojima until proven otherwise.

[@FFKonoko]

Then they will be mad. But yeah, considering the track record with phantom pain...this is definitely not silent hill. The deliberate branding and production values and mistakes and no backtracking made with phantom pain doesn't match this at all. Thus just feels like a black tiger level bit of bs.

[@pixytorres7117]

It's the devs fault if he gets all the backlash, he knew what he was doing it.

[@GalenCrayn]

Only idiots care. If it is a good game, I will play it.

[@westingtyler1]

Two things not mentioned: 1) the 25th came and went, and he pushed the game trailer thing back to August. 2) The environment we see in the teaser was a $35 forest asset from the Unreal store that just got dropped in. Either this is Kojima, or this dev is a master bullshitter with no real game that's been shown.

[@poppycola1135]

It’s the forest asset that really pushed me into “scam” territory. IF this was a Kojima game, I wouldn’t put it past them to just make a forest or use assets they already have made.

[@MrBeardsley]

Also the image Blue Box tweeted in late July that sparked further rumors Abandoned is connected to Metal Gear Solid, followed by a statement from Hasan Kahraman that all of the Kojima rumors were somehow impeding work on the game. Now here we are 24 hours after the “real-time trailer app” was supposed to go live, and all we have is a steaming pile of nothing with Blue Box citing unspecified “technical issues” preventing them from launching the app and basically saying “it’ll be ready when it’s ready.”

[@zynet_eseled]

@@MrBeardsley I think real time trailer app was the nothing itself. Call me a crackpot or a tinfoil, but think: Real Time. Trailer App. What does that mean exactly? Real. Time. Abandoned. Its pertaining to the working title. This was all planned

[@plattinum706]

Aug 13 and still no show

[@gamonstudios]

@@plattinum706 October and still nothing

[@jeremybamber5729]

Hasan is actually the protagonist of the next Silent Hills game. A dev who got lost in a haunted game is really close to other popular modern horror tropes right now.

[@shanegordon4060]

Nice theory. Genuinely.

[@ChestersonJack]

Damn that’s actually a good idea

[@rontheauraknight9606]

Why does that feel somewhat like Alan Wake?

[@ionmyke]

That would be an awesome twist.

[@jeremybamber5729]

@@rontheauraknight9606 because its the kind of self-indugent nonsense an auteur creates when they get too much external validation and Alan wake is basically Stephen King the Game ;p

[@miss-sagemoon]

If this is actually an indie studio, the kojima rumors set them up to fail

[@charlesn.2881]

Which they deserve for making games that are so trite and terrible.

[@mint5438]

They were doomed from the start. People are gonna hate the studio while setting _themselves_ up for failure. It seems kinda obvious, though anything is possible, that this is just an overly ambitious Indie studio that used some pretty ambitious (and dumb) tactics and will probably end up paying for it.

[@subwoofer6726]

"Im just going to be blunt, any developer who just puts out half-baked Unity engine games with models that are not even done are delusional if they think some triple A studio or company is going to back them magically out of nowhere" No no Nick, say what needs to be said haha.

[@tyronequinn]

My friend described the game as "unknown studio and mysterious shit" I said as a joke "oh probably Hideo Kohima lol" then lo and behold that's what everyone seemed to theorise

[@theallaroundnerd9889]

I hope the app is just an endless loop of "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley that just fries the PS5

[@illyriashade56]

I'm kind of conflicted about this because on one hand it does feel a lot like some amateur games producer has been blundering his way through stuff for the past few years, but on the other hand there are some details about it that make it all feel so incredibly fake. I'm leaning more towards blundering than a full on ARG approach but really who knows.

[@GundamGokuTV]

Yeah but you don't walk backwards into something like the deal they have with Sony and a big budget. A studio with nothing to their name doesn't get 1st Party support. It does not happen.

[@SadeN_0]

@@GundamGokuTV Exactly, I don't know how anyone actually thinks this can be a real developer. The first party support from Sony, going above and beyond to fake a PSN profile with nonexistent games and posting weird-ass trailers is the most obvious giveaway in the world.

[@illyriashade56]

@@GundamGokuTV yeah that's the part that bugs me and you make a very good point. Idk I honestly have no idea what to think about this there's just so much weird crap going on here.

[@Excaviliar]

@@GundamGokuTV The PlayStation KZbin channel also posted a channel for Life of Black Tiger, so something definitely does not need to have anything good to their name to get some kind of support from Sony

[@sablemae8853]

Plus they have nuare studios working as an outsource for blue box. They've mainly worked on AAA games like ghost of Tsushima,the last of us 2,spiderman,days gone and death stranding. A tiny studio isn't getting nuare or ps to help them with an app.

[@SNAREWILD]

you've absolutely nailed the atmosphere of your videos. it took me a while to figure out why i liked your content over others who cover arg's and horror stuff, and why i love it so much when that kinda stuff is normally too scary for me. but it's the atmosphere of your videos! especially after you introduced the while cabin idea, most horror videos try to make the narrator also scary, like some dark presence telling you about the horror thing, but all your videos have the vibe of a close friend telling you about something they are investigating with an exited but calm energy, i love it. oh and your voice sends me into a gay panic so that probably helps

[@IDontKnowAnymore71725]

Finally someone else who has that reaction to his voice!

[@redtreekoflames1327]

I'm glad I'm not the only one

[@rontheauraknight9606]

He has an almost Asmr but not Asmr feel and his voice is perfect for creepy things it’s somewhat different from Nexpo who goes all in on the editing while it feels like Nick is at a table next to you telling everything then laying out his thoughts

[@magicalhermitcrab5912]

Night Mind made me bi.

[@redtreekoflames1327]

@@magicalhermitcrab5912 I feel that lol

[@Skud_paimon]

I think this isn't Kojima but Sony themselves, they were trying to piggyback off what Kojima does and even did some things to make people think it was silent Hill but failing miserably.

[@writershard5065]

But why would Sony invest this much into a developer who basically has no solid games under his belt? I don't think it's Sony either, but then again it is on their brand new console. To be honest, I have no idea. It's still possible it's Kojima as well, but it's also very possible that it isn't.

[@Skud_paimon]

@@writershard5065 they didn't necessarily say that they weren't doing any mysterious thing at all, also I don't think this is a real indie developer but Sony instead. As night mind said, it wouldn't make sense for Sony to fund a random studio, it leads me to belive its sony.

[@falconJB]

@@Skud_paimon Yeah, I think there is probably a fairly good chance that is what is going on here, just a big company looking for some cheap press.

[@Tolinos20]

I thought so too until some stuff were connected to Kojima,like the PT being hidden by the branch in trailer,Hasans last name and how June 9th kojima showed a book saying silent and hill in his post and same day the company that got blue box game said “its not a kojima marketing trick” when it wasn’t even hardly rumored to even been tied to kojima back then.

[@Tolinos20]

@@MrKnaives didnt kojima say he’s not working on any silent hill? I guess fans wont even believe him at this point lol

[@agisuru]

It definitely isn't Kojima. Rather, it seems like he's someone intentionally leeching off of Kojima's reputation. The way he goes around screaming "I'm Hideo Kojima" actually doesn't seem like how Kojima would genuinely go about this ruse. But... none of those are the nail in the coffin. No, the nail in the coffin is that Kojima would never allow anything, even a teaser, to be released in this state. He's a notorious perfectionist. PT and Phantom Pain both made waves because of their insane levels of polish. Kojima is too much of a perfectionist to tease his game with something suspiciously shoddy, meaning that this is likely genuinely shoddy material trying to garner attention using Kojima's history of misdirection. Besides, let's not forget that sony's official KZbin channel featured a trailer for Life of Black Tiger.

[@dom2752]

Wait where does he scream he is hideo Kojima? Seems like a lot of you guys are labeling him as some swindler but it seems he's be straight up with him NOT being Hideout Kojima.

[@quintonchurch4064]

In the likely event that this is entirely bullshit, I actually respect the devs for one reason: they shut down the Kickstarter. If they wanted to, they could grift the absolute pants off all the conspiracy theorists, but they've settled for generating false hype.

[@culwin]

I guess they didn't want to go to prison. Very respectable.

[@LOC-Ness]

it would be funny if this turned out to be a fucking Castlevania reboot form Naughty Dog or some shit

[@denysopalenyk4775]

Absolutely bonkers

[@kittykat5090]

oh, if only

[@Shatter149]

jokes on you im into that shit

[@loganreads90]

Or a Pokémon experience with Haunters and stuff. Like Luigi’s Mansion, but with Duskulls chasing you.

[@spiteu9272]

To be fair, Kojima also worked on the last Castlevania reboot. This goes all the way to the top.

[@pyrock0227]

Imagine being so bad at web design that people assume you've created an ARG...

[@chandlerj333]

“Life of black tiger” shows that PS doesn’t have too high a bar for entry.

[@mercurymachines4311]

No Playstation blog post and no special PS5 interactive app. It's really not comparable.

[@billblaski9523]

Whats Life of Black Tiger?

[@ElevatorEleven]

I really hope it is a long ridiculous Silent Hill In Disguise reveal, not because I want a new Silent Hill game made by Hideo Kojima, but because if it's not Silent Hill the speculators are going to throw a fit.

[@thesilverblueman]

several people at konami would have to retire before silent hill ends up anywhere near kojimas hands they are extremely spiteful and cruel with the things they did to him and his employees

[@firehawk7773]

Not to detract from Nick's usual hard work of investigating and really weighing the reality behind the rumors, but the quip at 18:01 utterly sent me

[@merlinm.4387]

Bro even team cherry lets the other dudes out the Australian outback sometimes lol. Its like a team of 3 or 4 working on Silksong for the past couple years, but even that small team talks.

[@esoopthederp7672]

Actually we haven’t seen anyone in TC talk publicly for over a year. There have been private interviews, but only contractors like graig and leth have talked

[@4PawSquad]

They knew what they were doing with the “starts with an s ends with an l” tweet. They probably got emails/calls from Konami and Kojima’s legal teams and they had to walk it all back as quick as possible. If it is Kojima this is a lot messier and less elegant than his teases before. I think keeping silent would look better than the taking things back. Maybe he’s just trying to get as much attention as possible but it seems really unorganized for Kojima.

[@Zulf85]

Yeah, Kojima is more organised than this. I totally think this guy is messing with PT people and hoping to get hype out of it. I'm going to feel pretty mean about it if I'm wrong lmao

[@FFKonoko]

I mean, kojimas teasing had their fake studio sitting in Konami areas, left fox engine logos on screenshots... But all of this just seems too unfinished and too low budget. It feels like one guys thing.

[@Tolinos20]

Legal teams had nothing to do with it. It is either time to announce something big like silent hill Or that doofus Hasan lied to get more attention OR hes even more dumb to try to set a new name reveal with a very very dangerous tweet he regretted. If this is a silent hill game at all and kojima is involved he has schedules as to what to type and what to post or tweet. Him trying to cover it up is probably because of the app delays due to localisation reasons.

[@rvfiasco]

I'd keep in mind that Kojima is a genius. The messier and less elegant strategy is a move geniuses use to throw off the scent, so to speak...

[@0Blueaura]

The where is his reply about the whole hassan thing?

[@TheGregoryodd]

Checkin in from January 2022 and noticing that the last “update” on the game was given in late December 2021, with more vague reassurances that something is coming soon (but also they had to a full rework etc) …I’m wondering if this isn’t some weird art project/ meta commentary on the games industry, games journalism and projects like say, Star Citizen.

[@Michael_Breiter]

June 2nd 2022 update has the head guy of Blue Box claiming there are no active game projects his studio is working on. To be fair, his daily gaming activity already told us he wasn't working on it, same with his private and very toxic discord, but it seems the other nine "very real and actual people" aren't bothering either. Personally, I don't think Blue Box Studios will ever release a game. They aren't a grifting studio/game dev, but I don't think they have what it takes to produce what they want to produce. I am 85% convinced it is just the one guy and he's biting off way more than he can chew.

[@postbunnie]

@@Michael_Breiter maybe one guy and nine really sophisticated neural network language models each trying to convince the other that they're also a totally real person.

[@MrBeardsley]

@@Michael_BreiterThere’s been no updates of any kind since Blue Box announced game was delayed indefinitely delayed back in March of 2022. If Hasan wasn’t a scammer, he was a very ambitious wannabe who thought he could fake his way into the game industry.

[@Michael_Breiter]

@@MrBeardsley so, I was right. He made a big stink, pretended he wasn't a dev team of one, and upon realizing his ambition was a hopeless pipe dream, quietly exited stage left

[@nikoiscreative]

Kojima is the friends we've made along the way on the SH conspiracy train.

[@UAAAAAAHHHH]

in case anyone is wondering what the guy at 9:54 is saying: oh god, i can move. all of this looks really creepy it reminds me of- *laughing* oo, i can look around. this is great, do you guys see that- *in game voice speaks* uhhh.. i'll go this way, this looks cool. well, they definetly have to change some stuff in the game. i think the controls are a bit weird *laughing again* ooo, now we're somewhere again. do we have a flashlight? no, i don't think so.

[@Roadent1241]

Thank you very much!

[@ThinkaloudHill]

Before we start alleging legitimacy by Sony's involvement, remember this is the company that advertised that terrible Steam Greenlight-style black tiger game on their main channel.

[@brandonporter8509]

Hey give fred credit he wrote the game on a computer created entirely of animal feces

[@tuckeredout2887]

16:11 SneakyWarrior huh? Kinda reminds me of a certain stealth operative named after a certain reptile...

[@moonbearx]

Sneaky snake.. solid snake sneaks.. sneaky kinda sounds like snakey… I know it’s probably a coincidence but it made me laugh

[@RealCryptoTest]

The company is Blue Box too. Can you tell me exactly how Solid Snake sneaks a lot of the time?

[@redisthecoolestcolour]

Naming the studio head Hasan Kahraman (Handsome Hideo) is expert level trolling, but I can't decide wwho is doing the trolling.

[@Lord_Mad_Dog]

"is blink 182 on the radio right now?" alt station starts playing feeling this excuse me, how did you know this information?

[@MarikoRawralton]

For some reason, people think that showing up at a Sony event or on the PlayStation channel means your game is officially backed. It doesn't mean anything. Life of Black Tiger had a trailer on the PlayStation channel.

[@southerncaterpillar4443]

I know that this channel has a very specific type of content but... Night Mind could narrate the most mundane things and I'd love it.

[@piratemaxine]

YES! I've been really into this these past few days, and while I am still on the fence how I feel, whether it's just some new indie game, or some game by Kojima and/or a Silent Hill announcement, I'm really excited to see where this goes

[@MrBeardsley]

The Kojima connection seems unlikely, the main reason being that Blue Box seems to have “existed” in some form as far back as 2015. In 2015 Kojima finished MGS5, had a falling out with Konami, and set up his own studio, and his next four years were spent working on Death Stranding. I don’t think he would’ve been setting up a fake developer, launching fake Kickstarters, and putting out alpha builds for fake games during that time.

[@rvfiasco]

Solid point.

[@lamihadamshareef5270]

@@rvfiasco the how did they get first party with Sony Like how

[@MrBeardsley]

@@lamihadamshareef5270 There’s no indication the studio is under a first-party deal with Sony, just that Abandoned (if it even exists) will be a PS5 exclusive at launch. That’s not uncommon, Sony has made deals like that with multiple indie studios.

[@Sjdnxincndjdu]

"Sauce control" starts with a S ends with a L

[@unslaadkrosis9435]

S E X U A L

[@alexm8443]

@@unslaadkrosis9435 The sauce must be contained.

[@tigerkat4419]

Sussy lol

[@nemo.refert]

I'm gonna stretch a million miles with this theory but let's go: "The Haunting". There was a horror game for the PS2 called Haunting Ground. It is considered a cult classic , which means there could be interest in rebooting or sequeling it, and the bestpart is: it's a Capcom game. If Kojima is working with Konami's biggest rival after being laid out, that would be the most beautiful middle finger in the industry's history. I'm probably wrong, as there is way more evidence pointing to Silent Hill, but it would be really cool if I happen to be right

[@Kropothead]

That would be a well-deserved sequel, tbh.

[@zynet_eseled]

@@Kropothead that would be a perfect twist on this whole storr

[@LordTeaboBaggins]

I get the feeling this is more of a scam that just got away from the scammer. Call me cynical, but the online game market is littered with that type of product. Frankly, the "playable" alpha of Rewind seems to lend some credence to that. Be nice if I were wrong though

[@FFKonoko]

Agreed. Sony had backed and promoted some truly awful bits of garbage before.

[@sammyisanoctopus]

I was completely unsurprised today (June 25) when I went Googling and saw that this very hyped up trailer has been delayed until August. It might not even be be a scam. It could just be someone whose ambitions exceed their ability to deliver. They keep going, bouncing from project to project, hoping that one is somehow going succeed despite their lack of resources. But I’ve seen this kind of thing go down many times before in the knitting world with yarn clubs-everything from people who bit off more than they could chew to outright scammers. Yeah, yarn clubs. The premise was you’d sign up, pay a few hundred dollars, and then every month you’d get a shipment of yarn and a pattern to knit. Some of the organizers just couldn’t handle the logistics, or costs were higher than anticipated, and they got overwhelmed and the project failed. But some were straight up scams, with no intention of ever succeeding. I’ve followed a couple of these scams as they unfolded online where the organizers actually faked their own deaths. (I can’t remember their names, this was... thirteen and fourteen years ago.) And then they recreated themselves under a new name and did the same thing again. I wish I was joking. And what I just heard? This whole timeline, the past failed or abandoned projects, a “new studio” taking over the project, but it turns out it’s still the same person, the teasers of product coming soon but constantly delayed-it just is all so reminiscent of those yarn clubs. In the scam yarn clubs, the scammers would delay shipments, pleading illness or being overwhelmed, promising double shipments next month, to keep people from disputing their pre-payments through PayPal. By the time most people twigged to the scam, the window to dispute the charges had expired, and they’d lost hundreds of dollars. The latest news with this Abandoned game? The teaser trailer being delayed until August when a full trailer will be released? I’m trying to keep an open mind... but I’m failing hard. I will happily eat my words if this turns out to be legit. But it’s looking very sus.

[@floramew]

Yeah same, I was a little surprised nm never mentioned that in the video.

[@jupsoup2444]

“a mystery game spirals out of control” like my mental health

[@lilnoir4213]

*kiss*

[@cherboka4856]

Caramel?

[@jupsoup2444]

@Digicraftmon the Crystal Gem YOURE RIGHT

[@NyctoPhobia197]

@Digicraftmon the Crystal Gem ITS STARTS WITH A S AND ENDS WITH A L 😳

[@DesertPunke]

What’s wrong ? ;-;

[@darksign5621]

I was just rewatching the everymam hybrid playlist and i didn't even read the video title i just saw nightmind notification and was here.

[@jupsoup2444]

DUDE I WAS WATCHING THE SAME THING i was right in the middle of the part 4 and 5 video and saw the notification and clicked right away. emh can wait

[@thegumonyourshoes]

Fucking SAME!

[@darksign5621]

@@jupsoup2444 i was on part 2 but its my 5th time watching the playlist

[@Closetedtypewriter]

Um... I was also rewatching Everyman Hybrid??!! The hive mind is real

[@Kektus1]

Cool, I guess...? Not sure why you're telling us this.

[@nerdypenguin9164]

Plot twist: the fairy godmother invester is Tommy Weisau

[@Rezzanine]

Oh hi, Mark

[@Sigismund697]

That would be fucking insane

[@4chanisback]

Coming back to this video after everything that's been found out makes you wish it was actually what the fans thought it was

[@TheRPGNerd]

what happened?

[@moosenman]

@@TheRPGNerd I’m pretty sure it wasn’t an arg. Hassan lied about a lot of things, plenty of the assets were stolen and I’m pretty sure he had a very toxic work environment.

[@CosmicGooseMan]

Just here to say hello. Enjoy your videos. Im an 83 year old man, and your documentarys bring me joy.

[@jupsoup2444]

[@MrStatistx]

Not sure if I missed it, but Sneaky Warrior also basically could be Snake from MGS. I assume more of a fanboy of Kojima trying to use tricks to make it seem it's related to Kojima. If it was Kojima, then writing "This is not a Kojima Marketing trick" would make the reveal super stupid, like some kid lying "No, i did not hide this" when getting caught and then going "haha, I got you! You totally believed me"

[@yesterdaysrose5446]

You know, Jim Sterling has been asking why some indie devs of crap PlayStation games seem to have a direct buddy-buddy hotline to Sony marketing and the official KZbin channel, as if their uncle really worked there or something. But maybe this explains everything! This guy is actually Hideo Kojima! Gilson B. Pontes is actually Hideo Kojima! Life of the Black Tiger, truly a Kojima hidden gem! Oh my goodness it all makes sense now!

[@cuddly-toy7646]

I'm sticking with avgn's theory that Life of Black Tiger is made by LGN (played by Gilbert Gottfried himself)

[@jacobl2222]

I want to live in the world where the entire history of half-assed and asset-flipped indie games were secretly developed by Kojima as a massive marketing campaign for the next Silent Hill.

[@skyllalafey]

Thank you! I was trying to remember which crap game Sony promoted and Sterling covered, because that was *exactly* what I was thinking during this whole video.

[@Catglittercrafts]

You ok buddy?

[@Deadhead-kq4hr]

Gilson is probably some sony execs son

[@1984Bergeron]

I noticed that in Hassan's video he says he's not an actor, not working on Silent Hill, but when it comes to Hideo he's "not really associated" with him. That choice of words seems odd.

[@jhonsmyth7810]

I dunno why but I always feel chilly watching Night Mind, which is perfect considering how warm it has been lately.

[@midgematic8659]

Blue “We promise we’re not Hideo Kojima” Box Games

[@MintyPup]

I love how loose this video feels, you really do treat mysteries with their proper level of care and it's nice to see a break in your average content to see something much more comedic

[@cryobot6641]

"Sony would never back a bad game with a team of amateurs who probably don't know what they're getting themselves into" I love you Nick, but should I remind you that the 'Life of Black Tiger' trailer is *still* on the official Playstation channel? Sony seems to have a habit of doing this exact kinda thing every once in a while

[@LadyMisalein]

You even still can get the game for 10 bucks... (And cyberpunk was yeeted...u know....)

[@rontheauraknight9606]

@@LadyMisalein cyberpunk is back on the PlayStation page officially again

[@LadyMisalein]

@@rontheauraknight9606 i know...but the fact it got yeeted and LOBT still chills its polygon is...ugg

[@joshuachurchill2858]

Sony didn't fund life of black tiger, all they really did was advertise it, no man's sky would be a much better comparison

[@cryobot6641]

@@joshuachurchill2858 fair enough, I suppose I just meant more that I'm not at all surprised, given instances like this and 'Horse Racing 2016' lol

[@sopranophantomista]

0:13 Oh Nick, you know we always come when you call.

[@sikly_frsh]

Ahh nightmind. Right when I needed him most

[@JustDeeevin]

I love the smile in your voice almost the entire time, i can't wait to see how all this works out. Good video!

[@100nodog]

I think this is an excellent commentary for the absolute travesty of incompetence that is AAA game developers and games journalism

[@ЧёяКтоя]

12:50 this reminds me an old russian joke: a hedgehog hid a bottle of vodka under a tree, and to prevent anyone from finding it he put a sign near "no vodka here". Later he came to check his stash only to discover another sign "hare not take vodka"

[@DilTinman]

THANK YOU. This video sums up everything I was thinking on this situation PERFECTLY. Too many people got focused in on the Kojima and Silent Hill connections and when they got denied and looked very unlikely, people dropped this whole thing and are now fully behind the developer 100% and believe everything they're saying, DESPITE THE FACT THAT REMOVING KOJIMA AND SH FROM THE EQUATION HAS THIS SITUATION STILL MAKE NO GODDAMN SENSE. I don't trust this developer at all, and they REALLY need to be more open and transparent to squash these rumors, but they refuse to. What's more is that you have Nuare themselves ACTUALLY MAKING A VIDEO FOR THEM. Like WHY, WHY does this team get this great treatment when they have NOTHING to show for it? Something is up with this game, and the more that comes out, the uglier it's looking.

[@sablemae8853]

I don't know. Having nuare studios working with them makes me think this is a bigger game than what they're saying. They mainly work on AAA games. Not sure what to expect but I do expect a AAA game because of the app and nuare

[@Michael_Breiter]

This isn't an ARG, hidden project by Kojima or anything like that, it is just a failed game dev. He spends more time gaming than anything else, runs private discord servers that are hyper toxic, and according to someone who knows him, Blue Box isn't working on anything. Abandoned's title tells you the fate of every Blue Box project. Abandoned will never release because there will never be anything to release. He'll probably announce a new title soon, or that hint of the "real" title is just him stealth announcing he's abandoned yet another game.

[@jonesy279]

It’s funny that this totally just seemed to have been a scam 😂

[@leon9333]

the german youtuber featured in 10:15 was one of my favourite youtubers at the time, deffo didnt expect him to be featured here

[@AnotherCamilo]

Moral of the story: If you aren't Hideo Kojima don't try to make a mind game for promoting your game, just release a gameplay trailer with a release date like any other normal developer without hanging out from other IPs.

[@TomokoKuroki0164]

I just woke up with my earbuds in to this storm sounds at the beginning and thought I woke up next to some stranger snoring louder than the garbage disposal blades of my kitchen sink. Autoplay sure is something.

[@ToniBingi]

Ghost voice: "Help me. (i'm stuck in the t-pose)"

[@EdSchroedinger]

WOT?! lmfao @ 18:04 ...that got me completely off-guard - honored with a proper spit-take! ...but seriously, skateboards are still a thing ;-)

[@roonkolos]

I love how you steadily grow more and more intense in your voice as the video goes on XD

[@mistytheimp9306]

AHHH ANOTHER NIGHTMIND VIDEO!!! JUST WHAT I NEEDED!!

[@MrEmanuele99]

You should check out the Evertale creepy ads thing going on. Basically, there are roughly a hundred horror and weird ads on youtube and other platforms for Evertale... which is just a regular innocent gatcha mobile game, with no horror components at all. It's going on for a while now.

[@najmaht.a.1314]

Omg yes I keep randomly getting those ads

[@RealCryptoTest]

Wait really? I downloaded it but deleted it before I could play because it was too heavy file wise!

[@007megaoof]

i renamber getting an evertale ad that made it look like a pokemon horror game

[@brokeeboii7879]

Ok so im not going crazy

[@Its_Penn]

You know who else is a sneaky warrior? Solid snake

[@Grimm112]

Sony picking up a small indie studio making bad early access games off of their 8 backer kickstarter is by far the most unbelievable part for me. I doubt they planned an arg like 7 years into the past, kinda seems like they picked an existing small studio as a sort of host for a bigger project?

[@malik87breaker]

You're such a great narrator. I knew what it was about. But i don't think i would be able to tell the story as good as you. Or make me invested in your narration for me to listen to again (I knew what it was bout). Well done :D

[@xxCrazyIzzyxx]

Apparently ya'll didn't notice the official Playstation channel was shilling games like "Life of Black Tiger" among other utter garbage. I feel like you all don't really get around on the parts of the web that regularly discuss the shitty side of games development. All of this comes off like a Jim Sterling video from 5 years ago when his content was in its prime. An inept dev is basically fumbling around and falling into a bunch of hype and situations over their head and talking out their ass. This isn't new, this is actually very on point for 2015.

[@leftygurl]

this story is honestly as funny as it is intriguing, because either it’s some guy who faked his portfolio so hard that he got mistaken for an arg, or kojima has been desperately scrambling to deny the game isnt his, it’s hilarious

[@bingonoid]

I feel like Kojima is too methodical and detail-oriented to be legitimately scrambling, but if it is him, he’s doing a good job of replicating the idea of an indie dev in over his head

[@GrubbsandWyrm]

I love arg stories. They're my favorites of all your vids

[@submariNervous]

18:00 - For what it's worth, the skateboards are probably because of both That One Anime that got popular, as well as the sport being recently added to the Olympics (the event for which will, barring unforeseen circumstances, begin on July 25th,) and they're just getting a leg up on the inevitable spike in interest it'll cause. I wouldn't worry about it.

[@robinmitchells]

So either Kojimas going all out with this misdirect or we’ve got a scam artist on our hands

[@bloodasp0164]

Artist is too polite a word for what this probably is. Maybe “scam fumbler” would be more accurate?

[@robinmitchells]

@@bloodasp0164 you know what, you’re absolutely right. This dude is fumbling his way through everything at the best of times lol

[@SetArk]

24:30 "It doesn't just happen" Look for Life of a Black Tiger.

[@lofi219]

This isn't Kojima. It lines up, but this is far out of Kojima's style, so I think that Kahraman is just using Kojima's reputation to his advantage. Also, looking at Blue Box's previous "games", I think this is a scanner who's fallen ass-first into an area he has no clue what he's doing, and he's forward, and back peddling so fast to try and figure out what the fuck he's doing.

[@darken2185]

"Welcome back to NightMind, friends" is my favourite phrase, second only to "Cellar Door"

[@GmodPlusWoW]

If this turns out to be another Gilson B Pontis incident, I'm probably going to laugh my belly off.

[@bbombs2120]

“Thank god it’s night time” I say at 2 Pm

[@zxamostheseer697]

I've never heard Night Mind laugh so much in a single video. DELIGHTFUL!

[@overcastingdays]

Abandoned : The game that took its name too literally.

[@MilkshakeSkunkette]

oh god please, Please please please pleeeeaseee tell meeeeee PT is going to happen! i'm calling it - Husan is gonna pull off his photo-realistic mask and reveal he is Hideo kojima, pulling out his glasses, putting them on calmy before saying; "...Kept you waiting, huh?"

[@Sylocat]

I don't think the fact that Sony put a release trailer on their official channel necessarily means there's more going on here than one lone dev clowning himself to puff up his brand. Sony has a longstanding problem with allowing half-baked shovelware on the PS4 and PS5 storefronts and putting terrible trailers on their official channel with their implied seal of approval.

[@Eepoole4]

Two videos in a month, holy moly we are BLESSED!

[@niruken7451]

"starts with an S and ends with L" what ppl thought: silent hill what it actually was: smell

[@lincoln7echo]

Just a word of appreciation to Night Mind. Always enjoy these deep dives.

[@koteshima6682]

I really hope it´s the Kojima theory, but I´m leaning towards this just being a horror game with ARG elements. But they´re doing a lot of stuff that makes people even more suspicious.

[@freakette555]

Btw in case anyone is wondering what happened on the 25th when the trailer was set to be released, the trailer has been pushed again, this time to August.

[@acezero10]

Phantom Pain: Being revealed by some dude who looks like in "Pain" and got his face wrapped in bandages. P.T.: Literally as the name said "Playable Teaser" Abandoned: They pretty much want to make the game looks unpolished and shatter expectations even when people barely know about the actual title, basically creating the situation where the game is "Abandoned" Long stretch, but i think there is still a chance this might be Kojima 👀