Hideo Kojima has never really revealed much about what to expect from his upcoming Xbox Game Studios project known as "OD", but he did touch on it a bit in a recent interview with SSense about his career and Death Stranding 2.
At the end of the interview, he expressed that people are either going to love or hate OD because of how "totally different" of a project it is, while also suggesting that "the real evaluations" of it will be realised in 10-20 years' time.
Here's an excerpt from the article:
Kojima describes the game as “something totally different…people will love it or hate it.”
Whenever OD comes out, he’ll read all the tweets, watch the YouTube videos, scan all the reviews. But the reception won’t matter to him then. Kojima is confident enough to know the legacy of his body of work will be defined much later. “The real evaluations come after—10 or 20 years from now,” he says.
This isn't the first time Kojima has talked about OD as being "something different" from what we've seen before, and he even admitted last year that it's "hard to explain" and "a bit risky and a new challenge for me".
We do know that it's a horror-related game that also kinda serves as a movie and "a new form of media" though, and Get Out Director Jordan Peele is attached to the project along with various other "creative partners".
The biggest news for now is that OD wasn't cancelled as part of the recent Xbox layoffs, so here's hoping we'll get a proper glimpse of it before the end of the year - maybe at The Game Awards in December? We'll have to wait and see...