Big companies told Hideo Kojima he's 'crazy' for making OD: 'it's something that no one has ever seen before'

OD is Hideo Kojima's return to horror, and while I'd like to say it's cloaked in mystery we actually know a fair bit about it: it's co-written with Jordan Peele of Get Out fame, and stars Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schafer, and a posthumous Udo Kier. According to Kojima, early trailers may point to "a standard horror game" but it's definitely not that at all.

In fact, we've been told repeatedly that OD is like nothing else that's come before: what it actually is, is a mystery Kojima seems pretty eager to exacerbate. In a new Entertainment Weekly feature which seems designed, maybe with poor timing, to celebrate the virtues and achievements of Xbox as it enters its 25th year, Kojima is called on to comment about OD, which will be published by Xbox Game Studios.

"I...