Editing Silent Hill (section)

==Silent Hills==
Originally introduced as an Indie-looking demo simply called "P.T.", the player is stuck in a hallway of a house which leads to a small concrete room. The player continually walks this same hall and room over and over and over, the exit always leading back to the beginning with some small changes...plus the ghost of a grinning woman with an eye gouged out, and a bloody fetus that sometimes wails or speaks in the voice of an adult male. 
Players cannot interact with anything other than through looking at things, and the game became a massive scavenger hunt of a community online trying to figure out what to do to progress such as looking at shreds of paper to restore their original photograph form, or entering a doorway then waiting five seconds for a phone to ring. Do something wrong or be too slow and the ghost kills you with a jumpscare. 
The story revealed is that someone killed their cheating wife and unborn baby, and someone was unable to save their wife and unborn baby. Which, if either, you are is unclear. 
At the end of a long and complex path, the front door is finally open. Exiting the house begins a cutscene where Norman Reedus of ''Walking Dead'' fame is revealed to be the model for your character, then the "P.T." title becomes "Silent Hills: Playable Teaser". 

The genius marketing campaign generated MASSIVE interest, only enhanced when it was announced that it was being directed by Hideo Kojima, with involvement from famed horror director and designer Guillermo del Toro as well as Japanese horror legend Junji Ito. The game was to be called Silent Hills and would be a complete return to Silent Hill 2 style psychological horror and symbolism from an unconnected protagonist. Then...[[Meme|#fuckkonami]] happened. Konami pulled a series of [[Games Workshop]] tier business decisions by allowing an expose revealing their '''horrible''' business practices and treatment of employees to come to light, and publicly fired and insulted Kojima, one of the most popular men in the video game industry, despite still using his name to sell his last game for them. They then chose to leave all of their many beloved franchises dead by announcing that from that point onwards, Konami would only be making pachinko and cellphone games. Yes, this really all happened...del Toro was left so disappointed by the process that he said he would never work in an industry as toxic as video games again. 
Konami attempted to hide from the massive backlash by trying to bury P.T. (which had quite the opposite effect), with del Toro and Reedus eventually confirming it was canceled since Konami wouldn't. It was pulled from the market, leaving any memory card with it installed as a VERY valuable collector's item. Fans attempted to make spiritual successors, which were mostly either bad cash grabs or canceled as well in development. Reedus, del Toro, and Hideo Kojima were all so bummed out by this that they got together to make another video game, ''Death Stranding''. 

So ended Silent Hills and, so it seemed at the time, the entire Silent Hill franchise for good. 

In May 2022, however, a Twitter rando posted some screenshots of a first-person horror game which he claimed were from a new SH project in development. These screenshots immediately got nailed with a copyright claim, suggesting there might be something to the rumors. The next month, the director of the first SH movie gave an interview in which he stated that Konami was planning on relaunching the series with new games, along with a possible remake of SH2 and a reboot movie which he's writing and directing. It remains to be seen if Konami has truly pulled its head out of its ass, but perhaps we'll get to visit that town from our restless dreams once again...