The Happy Ending of PT : A Video Essay

[@Leadhead]

So I don't normally like to amend videos, but my boyfriend and I are replaying MGS2 right now, and I realized that my idea of the swedish voice hacking into the game to try to break the brainwashing spell, which causes the game to respond by crashing, is almost exactly what happens when Raiden makes it into Arsenal Gear. Emma's worm cluster causes GW to start malfunctioning, and so the AI responds by telling you, the player, to turn off the console and get a life. Pretty neat, and makes me a lot more confident in my interpretation.

[@isaac-xm6kf]

I hope everything’s going well for you. I’m excited for whatever your next video will be 👍

[@soccerandtrack10]

Some1 made gameswork shop malfunction?

[@sethrowan4250]

Ddddd,ddzddddzzd,d,,

[@murmirr]

@@jackisgallant oooooo someone's bitter! you hit a nerve, lead!! must suck being lonely too bad we can't relate!

[@Ribkee]

I think the ten steps are explained in the photo pics no?

[@LegionHimself]

Fun fact: the impossible loop of the house involves a single right angle yes, but also a short flight of stairs. In other words, you are making a downward spiral.

[@sarahh_99]

Oh shit Junji Ito really was involved lol

[@deadfr0g]

@@sarahh_99 Lmaooo

[@thedesertfox3932]

EmpLemon moment

[@michaelwerkov3438]

I'm confused, single right angle?

[@BEZERKSTUDIOS718]

@@michaelwerkov3438 90° turn

[@Hissora]

I think the scariest thing about PT is actually having it on your ps4, playable and afraid that someday you might lose it from some misfortune (hardware failure, destruction of the ps4 possibly). This game needs to be available publicly again.

[@SpoopySquid]

Has no one put it up for torrent?

[@Hissora]

@@SpoopySquid I'm sure if you can find the file and proxy download it from a PC to a PS4 it might work but I was just reading that some of these versions are incomplete. It gets really tricky when this was software originally for PS4.

[@ConnieFWill]

that happened to me once. luckily you can redownload it with a weird proxy trick

[@TheCommanderFluffy]

I had my ps4 sold by my ex. PT was wiped off it. It was one of the lowest points in my life, genuinely.

[@Hissora]

@@TheCommanderFluffy fuuuuccck that's horrible. PT is so special that's devastating

[@yadhu3166]

The fact that you dropped this video a few hours before Konami's official Silent Hill revival announcement is poetic justice . The last adieu to a piece of media that's more in vein of Silent Hill's essence than anything Konami put out for a decade

[@DANKKrish]

this got to be the hand of fate at this point. or cosmic irony. maybe there isn't even any difference between them.

[@Hiihtopipa]

I just saw it a remaster of SH2 don't know my dude well well well, there is also a new one in the horizon.

[@DANKKrish]

@@Hiihtopipa did you finish the stream? there's 1 new silent hill game and a movie too besides the remaster

[@Devilot109]

... is Shattered Memories included in this decade? 'Cause that was awesome. (Downpour was also under-rated, but definitely did deserve some criticism -- the monster designs are... not great, for one, and there's definitely some tone issues, but it's overall pretty good. Book of Memories is also really fun, but absolutely deserves the "not in the vein of Silent Hill" label -- it's deeply weird as a Silent Hill game, even if it's a pretty neat action-RPG dungeon crawl)

[@veronicatorres87376]

“Konami’s official Silent Hill” *spits coffee dramatically” KONAMIS WHAT?!

[@garbageyoutubechannel310]

it's unfortunate that youtube compression absolutely murders the quality of dark stuff

[@razorbackroar]

Just wondering bro. If a KZbinr uploads in 4k wouldn’t that help? Idk how the algorithm works.

[@omniscientbarebones]

@@razorbackroar Nope! That’ll only make the fuzzyness worse. There’s a great video about it about Bitspeeds on Tom Scott’s KZbin channel. It’s title is, “Why do videos look so bad in the dark,” I think? I haven’t seen it in awhile.

[@Abyss3223]

Adds to the horror

[@razorbackroar]

@@omniscientbarebones thanks bro!

[@LargeMcNards]

Its most likely its not because of compression. It’s probably terrible looking because the camera he is using is bad in low-light situations. And KZbin compression

[@tuamigajordana]

I mourn the story Silent Hills would have told. The same tragedy repeating itself again and again. Until somebody breaks the cycle. The radio voice goading you to despair until you realize the voice knows too much. It would ve been beautiful.

[@Langtw]

Especially the way that it could have retroactively made Silent Hill 2 a better game. The biggest problem with SH2, imo, is the fact that the story barely holds up when taken literally rather than metaphorically. Expanding out the idea that James and the other characters in SH2 were manipulated into doing the things that birthed their guilt would add to the horror around the cult, and make SH2 fit into the SH lore even better.

[@beafraidofinsectattack]

Nice anna williams cosplay!

[@tuamigajordana]

@@beafraidofinsectattack O.O I just realized that I totally look like Anna!!! I swear Im wearing jeans under that top hahaha!!!

[@untipoconbarba7692]

Ju-On The grudge

[@Kaptain_Scout]

A lot of PT’s story themes are in Death Stranding

[@Lunk42]

I just think it's sad we'll never get to see the monster designs from Junji Ito and del toro. I will hate konami forever for taking that away from us.

[@LordSerpent]

@ashy i think money and lawsuits may be a big factor

[@himbofication]

it’s hilarious how konami removed kojima seeing as a mobile game made more money but i can just imagine how much money and status hills would’ve given them. Now they’re desperately trying to revive silent hill after shooting themselves in the foot

[@GuyParson]

@@himbofication kojima was making them LOSE money, the year after they stopped making console games was their most profitable year ever

[@ItsLoHere]

@ashy Konami has the rights to Silent Hill as an IP. I think the point being made is Kojima can’t make a Silent Hill game and remaking the concept with different names to circumvent copyright through “plausible deniability” would make it look cheap, hence why we won’t be getting anything that is vaguely like Silent Hills ever. The best he can do is make up a completely different project that includes Ito and del Toro in the creative process. The only thing we can ever wish for is Kojima making a project that has them involved and supersedes the potential that PT/Silent Hills ever had.

[@himbofication]

@@GuyParson and they’re gonna LOSE even more money if this whole silent hill revival thing flops. Maybe silent hill f will be able to hold a torch to silent hills and the sh2 remake is an air ball so we’ll see

[@benkenobi7649]

When I think back on P.T. I always get a uncomfortable feeling.. like I somehow managed to escape this thing. Not by skill, more like I have to be thankful to the game that it let me go.. brrr..

[@seraslain962]

That it was satisfied with how to squirmed and let you go while saying "You've been very entertaining"?

[@leonardvole9760]

Google, how do I favorite and retweet a KZbin comment?

[@iantophernicus6042]

Since I first saw her, I have felt Lisa's manic gleaming eyes and cruel, malevolent grin following me down dark hallway for years. It never felt like she was content to let things go. It felt like she was the sort to impose a part of herself on you, to forever be leering at you from behind waiting for you to turn and catch sight of her before pouncing upon you.

[@jchud13]

Give me a break 😂

[@GreenWormJello]

Just a quick theory to add into your confusion regarding the “I walked till I stood one pace before Jack”, I’ve seen some theories suggest that it’s a reference to a deck of cards, counting Ace - 10, just before Jack, the first of the face cards, and they also may have placed the desk with the phone and Jack’s photo right next to it intentionally!- but it would explain the clue referencing Jack while still not making it crucial to walk specifically to him. Walking 10 steps is always one step before Jack.

[@Cuiasodo]

The "corner of your eye" effect could be the work of a flicker effect on the flashlight, or could have something to do with the fact that the Lisa model is actually following around behind you when she isn't manifesting. That's something dataminers had found. The way the game renders light and shadow might be affected by that character model.

[@wareforcoin5780]

Yeah, I've spent a lot of time trying to glitch hunt in this game (very casually, I'm not like, an expert or anything), and the only things I've ever found are various lighting glitches. The light is done very well in the game, but it still messes up occasionally. (My greatest achievement was triggering a light glitch that would light up the entire front door momentarily by running into it at the very edge of the corner of it.)

[@Ashley-Slashley]

My favorite hint at the supernatural uh- nature. Of the radio is (as can be seen at 25:53) the items on the desk AROUND the radio. Have shadows that move as the chandelier swings. Yet the Radio’s shadow remains static

[@skinandbonesx]

The Swedish playing on the radio was one of the spookiest things for us, as Swedish players playing in Sweden at release of this game, where we knew literally nothing about it. We were convinced that the game was using our location and adjusting accordingly to send us a DIRECT message. How cool would that have been. Found out later it was just Swedish for everyone 😂

[@irshkashirkle]

@27:20; I think the line from the fetus saying the only reason the mother could get that job was "because the manager like how she looked in a skirt" and then following it up with the "exactly 10 months back" is meant to imply that the fetus' father was the manager after he used the threat of firing her to get her to sleep with him (since her husband was wallowing in his own self pity drinking, she had to carry that burden alone and knew how much they needed the money). Edit: all of this still alludes to the real life aspect of Kojimas perspective. replace manager with Konami management, the wife with the influential IP Kojima created at Konami, and schlocky games that would then result from those business practices with the demonic fetus in the sink, meanwhile Kojima is watching powerlessly as his brain children were being bastardized for the sake of profit, im sure the thought of "killing" his creations crossed his mind, but he instead chose to make PT instead and take his creative talents elsewhere and create homolumos

[@jeffbrownstain]

That last word you used; what does it mean?

[@MatthewPherigo]

@@jeffbrownstainI think they tried to write "Homo Ludens" which is a term made by Hideo Kojima for gamers

[@BigStonker]

​@MatthewPherigo yeah, because "humans of light" doesn't seem like it fits here

[@notzan5302]

PTs combination of senseless violence spurred on by talking head media personalities AND making you the player actively participate in some kind of summoning ritual that you learn about by watching other media personalities is a type of horror that will never be truly replicated i think.

[@smurfkebab]

Something that you didn't mention around the "I will be coming back" part, is that the song playing in the death stranding trailer is "I'll keep coming" by the icelandic band Low Roar, I think it was worth a mention since it fits in so well with the narrative about return and perserverence!

[@omniscientbarebones]

Almost an inverse of, “Kept you waiting, huh?”

[@derpleyew]

Kojima has been coming since PT was released he just comes everywhere constantly it’s really gross and that’s why Konami fired him.

[@omniscientbarebones]

@@derpleyew 🤨

[@smurfkebab]

It's a real problem tbh...

[@bongibot1104]

He can't stop coming all over the place

[@user-ot8wl7oh9s]

holy shit that theory that the radio lied about a bunch of husband kill their family just so jack could justify and doesn't felt alone in his action to kill Lisa is a cool and insanely disturbing damn.

[@Geospasmic]

It's interesting, but it's not like you have to invent family annihilators. There's a whole lot of them in real life.

[@user-ot8wl7oh9s]

@@Geospasmic that's not the point murder isnt a new thing that the radio invented, the radio is there as a reminder to how shitty Jack life is and is a comfort to how his insane thoughts killing Lisa can be justified.

[@houstonashley62]

I found consistent results for the calling puzzle at the end by saying things like "Lisa, I'm sorry for what happened to you", "Lisa, Im scared and I want to go home", and "Lisa, please let me out". Usually it lets me finish with one of those, sometimes two with a 5ish second gap. Also, my PS4 has been updated regularly since 2014 and my install still works.

[@ShakespearsCyst]

Realizing the game was released almost a decade ago makes me feel so ancient 😱🥺

[@MyurrDurr]

same ;-;

[@wenoay]

same! i was so young

[@wenoay]

@Spaceboy that’s why there’s a fun word in there called “almost”

[@generatoralignmentdevalue]

The fact that we all still care says a lot about the quality and promise P.T. has, and how long it's taking for anyone to top it. If Kojima made this to prove his value to the people who were about to fire him, he succeeded.

[@werewolflover8636]

And how old are you? Twenty something? Come back and say this when you’re all truly mature!

[@Sarah-qx4vz]

I used a sound file from SoundCloud to make the baby laugh the 2nd time. It’s a certain pitch of audio and it was a sound clip of a guy yelling. It worked EVERY TIME and instantly got the baby to laugh

[@Toycadet]

Link?

[@Sarah-qx4vz]

@@Toycadet I sent a link yesterday and came back and I don’t see it

[@Sarah-qx4vz]

@@Toycadet try searching this on SoundCloud: P.t. Silent hills yell to get baby laugh bbqslap

[@4dimensionalcat]

Leadhead covering her eyes and flipping off the screen when she gets jumpscared is the most relatable thing in this video

[@blake2521]

I always love the half hour style videos that are horror inspired

[@LostSoulSilver]

I was thinking about this video and i couldn't find it. I'm glad i can watch it again. Wishing you well, Lead

[@roondar6141]

I don't think I've ever felt the weight of time more than hearing "[PT] has been out for almost a decade"

[@Yourlibrarian]

I literally just woke up to the notification. Her voice is nice and soothing, and I’m excited for the video.

[@xiopia3940]

His

[@hainzofelps626]

@@xiopia3940 her

[@Redofreko]

@@hainzofelps626 unstoppable force vs immovable wall

[@xiopia3940]

@@hainzofelps626 him you dirty taco

[@hainzofelps626]

@@xiopia3940 you literally have an nft pfp

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

I'm guessing 'Jack' as a pseudonym probably has several purposes: 1: an allusion to 'all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy', in reference to Konami's obsession with the business side of the industry, Kojima's loss of creative freedom and because of its use in 'The Shining' 2: Raiden from Metal Gear goes by that name, so it would be plausible that the teaser could have been part of that series. 3: similar to the above it could be in reference to the player 'jacking in' to the game through their playable avatar. It's interesting that you think of the game being about convincing the player to become a killer, as simulations of violence through videogames and general media manipulation being used by people in power to incite people to become soldiers is a theme present in Metal Gear. Given the political content of Kojima's work I would also think that the murder audio being played in tandem with the radio announcer inciting the incident, and the other allusions to aliens manipulating the media, one might infer that the 'Aliens' could be a reference to They Live (Kojima being a big John Carpenter fan, as evidenced by Solid Snake basically being a reference to Snake Plisken from Escape From New York). That scene could also therefore be interpreted as a revolutionary call to action against capitalism as a system.

[@deadfr0g]

This is a very good comment.

[@serisdovakhin]

Given that Leadhead mentions that some of the people working on PT were told it was a dream sequence for MGSV i feel like your second point carries some additional weight.

[@eank3429]

Doesn't snake call himself jack at the end of mgs1 during the otacon ending

[@jeffbrownstain]

But wait I thought video games can't make people violent

[@averagejoey2000]

​@@eank3429Solid Snake is named David Big Boss is Jack, only The Boss calls him that. he kills her and her "family" except for revolver ocelot, who is indirectly responsible for the deaths of Naked Snake's children

[@sopranophantomista]

I feel you on the game following you around. I watched a playthrough of this game when it originally came out, and I was living in a basement at the time. Let me tell you that every time I left my bedroom to go down the hall to the bathroom in the middle of the night and all I could think about was Lisa rushing me for years. YEARS. 🤣 It's funny now, but the visceral feelings from this game lingered for so long afterwards. I don't think we'll ever quite get the level of psychological, abstract horror ever again. Personally I was spoiled by PT, and everything else is just a pale imitation.

[@iantophernicus6042]

I feel that. I've felt Lisa's glinting eyes and manic grin on my back, years after I swore I'd not look at her face again. She feels similar to the Weeping Angels, or the Silence, in that there's this ever present shiver down your spine and the sudden urge to squint over a shoulder to check that she is not following.

[@derpleyew]

watching this made me want to grab my PS4 out of the drawer it’s in and boot it up because it has PT on. Just jumped back into it and I’m in the 23:59 loop and terrified tbh. I haven’t ever been able to get out since it was released UPDATE: for the first time ever I triggered the ending sequence

[@JessieGender1]

God dang, this is an excellent analysis.

[@thewizard1]

Mf I realize that Jessie gender is a based leadhead enjoyer

[@Tinker-13]

If anyone wants to listen more about the more Meta side of P.T.'s story that Leadhead discussed, there's a video made by TheGreatDebate covers pretty much the same ideas I think with some very few differences here and there. I think it might be worth giving a listen too. (I do remember that he briefly discussed the flashlight colors, saying it relates to the old PlayStation logo)

[@konari88]

TGD's video was a bit more informative, definitely worth watching...

[@deadfr0g]

He’s made multiple videos on this game over the years, but the one that you’re looking for-his magnum opus-is the one titled “P.T.'s Hidden Meaning” 👌

[@coldnoodles2951]

@@deadfr0g I remember watching that, thats probably the best vid on PT out there.

[@tedthecommenter5364]

Ragnarox had the best theory, that this game was based on the MK Ultra experiments conducted by the CIA. He makes extremely compelling arguments including that fact that Kojima was fascinated by Cold War conspiracies. The fact that the numbers activated the father to kill the family, the fact that the tally marks on the walls on the walls of the room he wakes up in indicate he was locked in isolation which MK ultra subjects were supposedly subjected to, the multiple hallucinogenic visuals in the game, as MK ultra subjects were reportedly given LSD in order to create an alternate personality which explains the quote, "The only me is me, are you sure the only you is you?"

[@polloduh]

Yup. That video still gives me chills

[@Chlocean]

Wonderful analysis! I genuinely feel you touched on more things than any other video essay I've seen on this demo-this is the kinda in-depth analysis I've been waiting for since we first found out this was a Kojima work.

[@Chlocean]

I have been holding onto my PT demo for like ten years and last night I accidentally deleted it trying to close the app. I'm literally crying. 😢

[@ollebolle420]

one of the best videos discussing PT, most i've seen neglect to discuss the meta aspect of the game and how it ties into the actual narrative. happy to have found your channel, gonna start making my way through your video library ^_^ excited to see what you publish next

[@evilstinkr1905]

A game made by the PT team working with Team Silent would be a DREAM

[@wyattmilliken3320]

same team lol

[@evilstinkr1905]

@@wyattmilliken3320 I get what you're saying but I mean like the PT crew (Kojima, Del Toro, and Ito) working with the OG Team Silent from the first 4 games to make a Silent Hill game

[@docchicken245]

Yes

[@iantophernicus6042]

There is actually a remake of PT on Dreams. I wasn't brave enough to play past the first hallway, but is is there. I don't know how complete it is: I wasn't brave enough to have an encounter with Lisa.

[@evilstinkr1905]

@@iantophernicus6042 I watched a video or two on that a while ago. It seemed complete from what I saw, but a lot of the ambience was missing

[@kirah618]

This video actually evaporated any long standing disappointment I had over never receiving the game, cheers lass!

[@ivanguliashki]

I've beaten P.T. at least three times, so one can imagine my unhinged jaw when I just found out the game fake crashes from this video.

[@cousinvinnie6222]

Something I realized after I watched this whole video is how this game is like a Ghost in and of itself. It's this odd anomaly that seems to work perfectly as it was intended in order to scare the player. Bugless, glitchless, and everything that could be considered either of those two things just add to the experience rather than take away from it. It's almost as if no human could have possibly made this thing. Like a ghost, It's almost impossible to understand fully, and we likely will never get that chance. It instead will forever remain as a memory, forcing us to constantly question our own sanity and recollection of events. I'm a very cynical and rational guy, I don't believe in ghosts, bigfoot, the loch ness monster, or any of that. But for a brief moment, I thought about this game and how impossibly immaculate it is with what it does and actually considered the possibility that the paranormal might just exist in our world. The genius and flawlessness of this game is so apparent that it's hard to believe human beings were able to accomplish it. It's truly otherworldly. It should not exist, but somehow it does.

[@austinvidal2954]

Thanks for the new video, your essays make work go by a few hours easier 🥰

[@nathan_amato]

11:33 yeah me too lmao I don't understand how some people can just fully face horror games and films without hiding behind something

[@Roler42]

You get desensitized by it overtime. The more horror you face, the mire thrilled you feel. Eventually you grow cozy and comfortable with the horror, and then... You feel at home. I guess you could say the journey to become a horror fan is a horror story in itself :P

[@iantophernicus6042]

@@Roler42 I tried to do that. I'd watch compilations of different streamers getting Lisa's face slamming animation, forcing myself to become desensitised to it. Instead, it only made me more afraid of her.

[@kylegonewild]

@@iantophernicus6042 Desensitization doesn't happen to everyone and doesn't happen in all situations of repeated exposure. No amount of finding random spiders in the house has desensitized my mother to her arachnophobia. Some people are more easily startled in general, and some things startle people more easily. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. I've been desensitized to a lot of gruesome stuff, but something I've never been desensitized to is second-hand embarrassment. I stare intently at horror and thriller media, but have to cover or avert my gaze to avoid particularly potent cringe in sitcoms because some of it makes me super physically uncomfortable to watch.

[@Heidegaff]

Also, PT gave me the best picture in existence: Hideo Kojima, standing in Italy, under the sign of a Poste Italiane location, because it has "PT" on it.

[@ashu608]

I found you cause of talks about Silent Hill which i love, and since then you neve cease to amaze me. Both your personal and objective essays are amazing.

[@lordcanti]

41:00 204863 is also the genome sequence code for populus Trichocarpa. It is the first tree to be geneticly sequenced and is found in Toluca lake in California which I assumed would be the setting of the game. Oh and obviously the tree is shortened with PT.

[@ignightroad]

The title screen IS a tree stump so you're most likely correct too!

[@lordcanti]

@@ignightroad the photo is actually the backyard of one of the devs at Kojipro at the time but yeah the tree being the focal point is def a connection there. Ugh lol we shall never know.

[@HowAboutYouDont]

There’s only a few games that are just there in the back of my head that I can’t help but think about constantly, this game not only does that, but also makes me profoundly sad that it’ll never exist beyond this, but maybe that’s why this game has such a cult following, and if it had became a full fledged game I don’t think people would love it as much.

[@Koniving]

Fun fact: it's been shown that for most of the game, Lisa is always behind you, so shadows that kinda appear at the corner of your eye are actually there, because she's always directly behind you no clipping behind your camera.

[@Koniving]

Another fun fact: there are a few scenes in PT's paintings (all the random scenery paintings) that are actual locations in death stranding.

[@Koniving]

Another result while playing pt gives us a non-interactable trailer, in which dozens of 1980s toys come out, tentacles roam halls, and some inexplicable boy does scary stuff.

[@soulismissing]

Hey there, I have PT on my ps4 and current firmware, it plays jussssssst fine. Just turned it on. As long as you have it installed, it plays. Hell, you can still download it from their servers if you know how. They didn't remove it, just hid it in the servers. I tested this too. Still works. It takes a PC and a proxy and you are good

[@vi0let831]

Does your ps4 need to be jailbroken for it to work?

[@cheatsykoopa98]

I love that kojima knew the higher ups at konami dont care about games or art, so they would never know about PT until it was too late the price you pay for only caring about money

[@pink_alligator]

It's hard to explain how spine-chilling it was just watching, let alone playing this as a Swede to suddenly hear something speak your language out of nowhere.. And not someone trying to speak it but Perfectly like a native. Spoken Swedish isn't exactly often people's pick for horror

[@DolphinTillTheEnd]

The scariest thing i learned from this video is that hideo kojima is older than my dad

[@kvol1668]

We had a power outage while playing P.T. and ever since then the game starts up and resume with Lisa haunting the bathroom and we can't get her out of there. 😂

[@maxwellsamuel3255]

You ever tried going into your save file and just deleting the save? That might work

[@drear20486]

DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL NOW, WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED!

[@austindahu]

Loving the shots in this one Lead, that nightime clip of the car driving and pulling up to the ice, the framing of the wheel, so excellent. Really loving the growth in your production and analysis!

[@matzewrath]

God, I hope silent hills gets a full release one day. I once made a unofficial cover of promise reprise for this game just because I love this franchise so much. Let's keep the hopes up!

[@imkedux]

I really think that the game was never meant to have a full release, if you watch the video pts hidden meaning by thegrandebate they make a really good point about it

[@LosMSR]

OD is the P.T., Hideo is stubborn and wise.

[@inplane9970]

Surprising how this game is going to be a decade old in about 2 years, and it's still looks timeless as ever. Even odder how no other emulation of P.T. can match how well its horror is done. Visage is probably the best attempt, but is very different as well.

[@coldnoodles2951]

Btw i think i saw a vid from Jacob Geller where he found out that the broadcast for War of the worlds did not actually fool people, said it could've been the news outlets at the time that manipulated the news to sound like that, maybe to inflict harm on their competition, the radio, by showing its dangers. Video is titled: "The men who couldnt stop crying, and other unbearable realities". Its a good video.

[@LosMSR]

OD is the P.T. and Jordan Peele was the one he mentioned. Jack is also the father on The Shinning. Stanley Kubrick had a big fight with Stephen King for that movie. That's a mirror of Kojima with Konami.

[@DeathDrager]

I like this video for the sole reason that it condenses the way to get the secret ending into a chart and a map. i remember finishing this game so many times and most ways to finish them are jumbled and sometimes isn't right.

[@naomhangreaney1255]

I have to say i really enjoy your content, i found your channel while looking for advise on something else and ive just grown to enjoy the way to make your content overall

[@Sentay0]

I can't wait till someone successfully reverse engineers this beast so that most people can actually play it.

[@aliangel5007]

Same. With a proper reverse engineering job someone can make an accurate pc port of the game to keep PT Alive (considering the only way to play it is a PS4 from the timeframe it existed or a early ps5 system before the blocklist was added.

[@Snikabarz]

this would take WAY longer than it would take a PS4 emulator to be developed. The best way to keep P.T. alive is a well made PS4 emulator

[@aliangel5007]

@@Snikabarz pt is a rather big edgecase though since it requires several features other games don't so timeframe would be about the same to get a ps4 emu that can run pt properly

[@b.b.6995]

HOLD UP I DIDNT KNOW JUNJI ITO WAS A PART OF THIS My god im grieving for this game all over again

[@thisdudegotreal]

nooooooooo

[@quiver5756]

Junji Ito only was contacted after the release of PT. As Ito himself said he didn't work on nothing because just a few weeks after Kojima and him reunited the game was cancelled and he didn't drawn anything yet.

[@Goo_Ze]

This was such a great video!! I've been obsessed with P.T. as of late cuz I want to write a psychological horror short film and your video really gave me a bit more of an insight as of inspiration. Thank you!

[@icekuba880]

Nobody seems to mention it but in mgsv right before The devils house there is a radio that plays the same audio that plays in pt sometimes its the svedish broadcast and sometimes its the normal broadcast.

[@Bestgameplayer10]

It’s just not important. I’m sure plenty people know about it.

[@icekuba880]

@@Bestgameplayer10 Yeah, but it could make a cool silent hill x mgs theory if some mad man wanted to put time into it.

[@devilmaycrysarockingdontcome]

@@icekuba880 i doubt that idea would hold up

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

@@icekuba880 Plenty of folks mention it lol, there's a cassette tape you can pick up from it too. That and I'm pretty sure the JP release has Lisa as a decoy option.

[@Yourthoughtsplease]

You have so effectively described what I felt just watching the gameplay videos just a few months ago. Excellent video, awesome insights. Thank you for such fresh content. 👍🏻

[@LeoJGym]

Meanwhile, I bet Kojima was just all "Naw I'ma just throw some random-ass puzzles in a single hallway and call it a day."

[@lovebunny2345]

What an incredible essay. I am late to the party but I really enjoyed this, and it's so fascinating how you unlocked the ending without being too precise, since some of people were criticizing how complicated the last steps were. This proves that the ways to unlock the ending are in the game itself, not just "random".

[@neolunaticus]

Imagine the insanity once we acquire the source code to this.

[@wareforcoin5780]

No one ever talks about how much your character sways when walking. Like, if you look at it, it's a _lot._ I think Norman is drunk.

[@TheSilentRaver]

I remember when I first got a PS4, it felt so big and amazing. when I played P.T and Destiny 1 the world of games felt so different and unique, I miss this feeling.

[@valerialeontieva2587]

This small teaser still so important to me that I’m literally sobbing every time when I see it online. I really glad that Silent Hill series came back few days ago. But I really sad cause we’re never going to be able to experience that PT Silent Hill that was stunning. This is probably the only one game that I remember in every small detail.

[@giirog]

You found so many details after so long, it's amazing dear!

[@lotusfish8632]

this is the kind of thing i adore, where people have to solve these legitimately cryptic games. anyone got any reccomendations of similar stuff?

[@jdotsyro]

Inscryption

[@lotusfish8632]

@@jdotsyro already played it, but it is good and does fit the kind of vibe

[@Ryan-ct3rv]

Leadhead videos just keep getting better! Seriously I hope you're not working too hard, the quality of your videos recently has skyrocketed

[@_oe_o_e_]

I got nearly 2 mins in, vibing in the intro, chuckling at the timing, and realizing its you Leadhead! I hope the algorithm takes this far!

[@jindrichjochec296]

28:15 That cry fas WAY TOO REAL. It had me turn my head.

[@Sioux-periorGaming]

This small game is still the biggest mic drop a developer has ever done to a company. Even if it isn't Silent Hills, if Kojima ever wanted to do a horror game, it'd be a day one purchase for me. I couldn't begin to imagine the level of insanity that would be, the amount of crazy easter eggs and hidden messages spread throughout an entire fleshed out experience.

[@nya9444]

almost a decade later and I'm still stuck here praying this game gets developed

[@Wizardofzaz]

I really like how "war of the worlds" being a true event in silent hills history would have recontexualized the ufo endings throughout the franchise.

[@badbeardbill9956]

Now that’s cool af

[@TheseEyesSeeNothing]

Love the analysis. Such thorough work!

[@nobody24201]

I never got to play PT but played the first two Silent Hill games back in the day and have always been haunted by them. Every so often I go through a phase where I want to watch videos about Silent Hill or similar games or movies. It was in one of those phases I first learned about PT, which haunted me as much as the games I actually played. I have circled back to videos about PT multiple times and have gotten so much out of them, but I've also wondered what exactly I've been looking for. Well, I think I found it here. This is such a masterful analysis. I appreciate all you did to play and experience the game yourself and understand its meaning; your efforts really paid off. I have seen other analyses that discuss what Kojima was going through at the time this was made and analyses that explore who the protagonist is and what is happening in the game, but I've never seen them woven together like this or in a way that supported such a strong, convincing conclusion. For me, this is the definitive reading of PT. It makes sense of so many things that never made sense to me, the curious little itches this masterfully designed game left in my mind and kept me coming back to KZbin trying to figure out, scratch, or answer. I think why PT feels so powerful is that it captured something real--something real and dark--that Kojima was going through. There are so many forces in our society that prey upon disaffection and try to get people to misdirect it--we see so many people who are victims of this. Kojima was no doubt feeling the way the corporate world just wanted him to give up and disappear. He was feeling the destructiveness of late-stage capitalism and corporate greed and was at a real personal moment of giving in to despair or seeing the opportunity for rebirth. I love his story that he thought he had lost everything and slowly realized he had lost nothing as his art and friendships and creative partnerships had woven a strong web that made it relatively easy to restart from scratch. What tickles the itch I could never resolve before is that it doesn't make sense to see this as a wholly bleak game, because that bleak game would be never leaving the loop. Hell is going through the loop repeatedly without escape or relief. The player character ultimately escapes the loop. I love the interpretation that the game is supposed to represent an actual game used by the SH cult to infect more minds with murderous intentions. And that, notably by banding together with the larger gaming community to solve the game, the player character can break the spell and exit the loop.

[@beansfebreeze]

You're telling me that Hideo Kojima would make a game centered on the idea that capitalism robbed him of his job and nearly crushed his creative spirit? Blasphemy!/s

[@brutusmagnuson315]

So… you’re basically playing as Q-anon dad being haunted… before Q-anon dad was a thing.

[@gabrielbruce1977]

Fun fact, not long after I watched someone else play PT... I got startled so easily as a nocturnal adult that my housemates bought little blue hall lights.

[@cosmicwintermoon]

I think you added some more great interpretations to those in another video I watched. I think you two hit the nail on the head! If you haven't already seen it, check out the video P. T.'s Hidden Meaning.

[@thepaleprinceofruins9203]

A spiritual successor to SH4: The Room we're never gonna get, which fucking sucks since Kojimbo made a hell of a demo to sell the premise.

[@averagepaltime9620]

Didn't thegratedebate do a video with nearly this exact same theory...beat for beat...like 4 years ago. The video has over a million views

[@burtwonk]

PT gets under your skin. It is genuinely unsettling.

[@WilliamAmbervein]

I do think I might know about the hand prints. One of the Silent Hill games, which nobody likes but I think was a good story, involved a man who was raised by the Order and continuing killings to complete a ritual. A ritual that shouldn't work since he is combining what he was told in The Order with a misunderstanding that he came to when he was a kid. But he believes it works, and so it does. The main character is locked in the room where this ritual is supposed to take place in and when you look out of the peephole you can see handprints for the victims on the wall across from the apartment. Nobody else can see them but you can. If Kojima did his research and wanted to tie in the lesser-known or not well-explained things he would tie that in too. I believe the handprints are the radio host's victims after they died. The radio host must be doing a ritual and using all that death to make a world of his own like in the room.

[@gee_woah]

Minor grievance but you *CAN* actually download P.T on an unmodified current firmware PS4 as long as you have access to a PSN user that has it present in their download history. There's a app you can use on PC to spoof the sony server allowance to allow you to download the game. I recently purchased a new PS4 and was able to redownload P.T from my old account with no difficulties.

[@QuintonMurdock]

Not the same effect tho

[@ivansmith6614]

I love your content I love your in depth analysis of game mechanics or games in general Thanks

[@BlueMagicite]

I'm surprised more people don't analyze Kojima's stuff like this. You'd think given his taste in films, music and artists that it'd be pretty obvious to take a more metaphorical approach to reading his games rather than a 1:1 "this is what reality would be like in x situation" stories that people seem to only read his stuff as. Thanks so much for putting this out! I was of the mind this teaser was always SOME kind of swan song given the weirdly specific lines at the end of the teaser but I never came back to it since... well I thought it was a dead-in-the-water project. Glad to see though that someone else was picking up the motifs in PT that carried over into Death Stranding!

[@DeathTempler]

Listening carefully, then fire alarm above me starts going off and people running down the hall, "ATTENTION, ATTENTION," over the sound system. Bad timing

[@NormanTiner]

I played it when it first came out. Well, it had already been revealed to be a teaser for Silent Hills, but still, I had no idea what I was getting into. I played in the dark by myself with headphones on, and it was by far the scariest piece of media I've experienced in my adult life. It's amazing that a playable teaser of a canceled game changed horror games forever, inspired hundreds of lengthy video essays, and still contains mysteries to this day as its approaching 8 years, nearing a decade old. Edit: I would like to add that I agree that this wasn't really a playable teaser. I always had the feeling that it was a big middle finger to Konami for disrespecting Kojima and limiting his creative freedom. He was showing them that he could have taken any of their IPs and made a masterpiece out of it. What an amazing poetic way to leave a company in the dust. This of course also forced Konami into the biggest PR nightmare I have ever witnessed. The massive anticipation of Silent Hills and its "cancellation". But, if they weren't as predictable as Kojima suggested, then they could have possibly avoided the fallout, apologized to Kojima and arranged for him to work on Silent Hills.

[@asocialwizard]

never played p.t. never heard in detail about it, just that it's scary. it's been 10 minutes and I've only just realized that the video of a person with long hair talking in a dark red room ISN'T from the game 🤦 i thought it's just a convenient cutscene of Lisa to narrate over lmao great scene design 👍

[@nobody4248]

I think Kojima's new tools was his Sillent Hill idea and the talents he recruited for the project.

[@sus-dh7hi]

Well I think its pretty great video, writing as someone who have watched a lot of P.T. analyzes. I think what probably differentiates it the most, from the rest of P.T analyzes is more focus on non-meta narration of the game which I find really rarely in such analyzes, sadly so. But to be fair I think that approach to meta part is also in some ways innovative, especially the whole part about P.T. ending being sort of positive. Overall great stuff.

[@oPHILOSORAPTORo]

I'm obviously a little late to the game (pun absolutely intended), but when I hear the letters "PT", my mind automatically fills in the blanks - PTSD. PT - Post Traumatic. I mean, the demo could easily be read as a metaphor for PTSD, on multiple levels. Repeating the same events over and over, trying to change the outcome, but never really succeeding. Reliving the past, not out of nostalgia, but because you're trapped.

[@darnydeeds5729]

A friend of mine who isn't really a gamer per se, merely watched a small part of a P.T playthrough and it actually gave her a fear of loops. To this day whenever she has to ugo up/down a flight cylinder stairs gets a faint panic attack.

[@utubecop11]

Your friend will die within moments of actual hardship lol holy shit

[@tonoornottono]

@@utubecop11 it’s just a phobia. people with phobias aren’t incapable of dealing with life. i’m sure you make fun of veterans for being afraid of fireworks, though, right? just some harmless fireworks.

[@guy-sl3kr]

@@tonoornottono Yeah but OP is being super hyperbolic. Well, at least I hope they are. If their friend gets legitimate panic attacks because they watched a small part of a video game playthrough presumably years ago then I hope they have access to high quality therapy.

[@TaylorWilmes]

Lol

[@joshgroban5291]

@@tonoornottono except veterans don’t “fear” fireworks. It’s ptsd from explosions. Getting a fear of loops from a game demo and getting ptsd from an explosion turning a piece of you or someone else into meat chunks are completely different

[@dreammachine5435]

one thing I haven't seen spoken about PT is the political and social commentary imbedded in the game. The game focuses on a man who lost his job, felt emasculated by his wife having a job when he didn't and used alcohol and prescription medication to dull the pain he felt. He then begins listening to a radio program that says things like "nows the time for action. our society is rotten to the core. I'm talking to all the fine, upstanding folks got their walfare cute, got their jobs pulled out from under 'em. yeah, you! you know what to do! nows the time! do it!" and then murders his family because the voice on the radio told him to. The radio broadcast uses the same angry and manipulative tone that far right radio hosts like Alex jones uses. Alex Jones frequently talks in an aggressive style where he pumps his audience up into a frenzy usually with some sort of call to action attached to his ramblings and speaks to the feelings of social and economic anxieties of his audience. Alex Jones and other far right radio hosts will frequently tell the viewer how badly they've been treated and now its time to stand up and take back their country. The PT radio host like Alex jones is manipulating the economic and social anxieties of men who are looking for a strong authoritative voice that will mirror their own anger and tell them what to do about it. In PT Jack resents his wife because she has become the main bread winner of the house mirroring how many men have misogynistic views of women due to insecurities that women will replace them in the workplace. The radicalization of the men in PT turns them into monsters just as far right radicalization makes a lot of men into really hateful and dangerous people. The game is making a commentary on the worst qualities of American life. Its about how many men in the united states in the aftermath of the 2008 recession lost their jobs, felt angry they were unemployed and hated themselves for their own perceived emasculation, drowned their pain with booze and medication such as oxycontin, turned to far right conservative figures to give them comforting answers for the problems in their lives and had their anger pointed towards innocent targets such as women with often violent results. The allusion to war of the worlds is commenting on how radio still has the ability to make people believe blatant falsehoods. 75 years ago it was that aliens were invading and today its that the sandy hook shooting was a false flag attack.

[@carljohnson3686]

So i guess ur evidence of an angry soyboi Ieft Ieaning Ioser who spends far too much time on the internet rambling about how unfair life is, also the same type to be about being diverse and equal but goes about causing chaos and listening to the high pitched voice of hasan puker lmao or doing certain shady or sus things that vaush probably told u to do. Maybe u feel emasculated yourself and r just projecting. Listen i understand it must be difficult since u dont have a girlfriend/wife but ur only showing ur own insecurities by making up a false story on a fictional character to push ur garbage narrative, how sad ur life must be bro

[@hiddensquid7048]

@@carljohnson3686 wow cj, not cool. Now I understand why Big smoke and Ryder betrayed you.

[@hiddensquid7048]

that's an interesting take I never would've though of but I see your point.

[@saamo1423]

@@carljohnson3686 It would help if you actually thought about what he said lmao

[@QuintonMurdock]

@@carljohnson3686 wow. Projection

[@missingindy]

This video makes me appreciate the game studios that are breaking those trends of the big gaming companies, like New Blood, Bethesda and Obsidian, and so many more, and it makes me appreciate the ways that game development is becoming easier, like with how Roblox Studio is pretty easy to make models in if you have a bit of knowledge

[@devastatheseeker9967]

*Game makes waves on the internet and is held in high regard by all* Konami: "No"

[@jamieflowerchap6278]

Thank you so much for this video. Honestly PT just never was able to sit right with me since it vaguely had a story but I definitely was missing at least parts of it. So yeah, thanks for a bit of closure on it, even if you didn't have like a 'true answer' you had a lot more insight than I've ever heard expressed about this game.

[@rabentante]

Funfact: 20.48 63(.00) are also coordinates in the Bermuda Triangle

[@nikicherry1234]

you are one of those rare cases, when I actually listen to a whole video. good