Japanese Teacher Introduces Terrifying New Way For Students to Learn English — Playing Hideo Kojima's P.T. Demo

A connection teacher successful a Japanese secondary schoolhouse has introduced a caller — if horrifying — caller mode to thatch students English: by playing P.T., besides known arsenic the Silent Hills teaser.

P.T. is Hideo Kojima's uniquely terrifying rotation connected the fearfulness genre, presented via a location filled with unexpected encounters and bizarre mysteries. In the end, P.T. revealed itself to beryllium a "Playable Trailer" for the concealed task Silent Hills, which ne'er came to fruition. For galore — myself included — it's considered 1 of the scariest video crippled experiences of each time.

Hideo Kojima's P.T. lives connected successful a Japanese classroom. Photo by Amy E. Price/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty Images.

As elaborate connected the school's blog and reported by Automaton, students were required to play done the acquisition successful English, arsenic good arsenic springiness each player's commands successful English, specified arsenic "walk astir the room" and "answer the phone." According to the blog update, it created an breathtaking ambiance successful which students — astir the property of U.S. sophomores — could familiarize themselves with English portion taking a travel done 1 of the astir terrifying games ever released.

Apparently, the students were peculiarly alarmed erstwhile the telephone started ringing but were encouraged to speech astir done "natural English expressions."

Konami officially cancelled Silent Hills successful 2015 aft a painfully nationalist fallout with Kojima. The free-to-play demo was past scrubbed from the PlayStation Network, provoking mendacious rumors that the institution was removing already downloaded copies of the demo from PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide. Clearly, this teacher had the forethought to sphere their saved transcript for implicit a decade.

With Death Stranding 2 retired the door, Kojima is moving connected a fig of caller projects, including fearfulness crippled OD for Xbox Game Studios. He revealed the archetypal trailer for it past month, sparking speculation it is connected to P.T. successful immoderate way. Certainly determination are striking similarities. The mysterious crippled volition prima Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves' Sophia Lillis, Hunters' Udo Kier, and Euphoria's Hunter Schafer, with the trailer showcasing Lillis' quality successful a spooky house, lighting candles earlier gathering a malevolent figure.

Kojima has explained that the crippled was subtitled arsenic OD: Knock — and indeed, a creepy knocking dependable tin beryllium heard passim the trailer. The subtitle appears to differentiate Kojima's video crippled from the OD task being worked connected by filmmaker Jordan Peele. "There is simply a antithetic benignant of fearfulness Jordan [Peele] volition do. Mine is the 'knock,' is the fear," Kojima said. "I truly americium acrophobic of large sound sounds."

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Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.