Death Stranding's Hideo Kojima is Done with Horror Games

Hideo Kojima's upcoming game, Death Stranding, will not be a horror game, IGN reports. Kojima, best known for his work on Metal Gear, attempted to make the ninth installment of the Silent Hill franchise before it was canceled. Now he says he's done with horror games.

He has a simple reason for his reluctance. ""I get scared very easily," said Kojima. "Actually, this is true of Alfred Hitchcock as well as Steven Spielberg. Because they scare easily, because I scare easily, it's actually easy for us to make something that is scary, because we understand what is scary."

However, Kojima says, "While in that process, we're constantly imagining, like, terrifying situations so it ends up giving me bad dreams. That's the reason why I don't want to make a horror game."

Kojima, creator Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labrynth) and actor Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead) were originally supposed to be a team for the Silent Hills video game. However, after that was canceled, they joined together to make Death Stranding instead. Not much is known about the game, except that Mads Mikkelson (Dr. Strange) is involved.

While he may be staying away from horror, Kojima has a few thoughts on what makes thengs scary. "I think the most effective way to scare someone is to show them something that's slightly out of the ordinary," he says. "Slightly off, but at first glance, they don't know what it is about it that is unusual. When you do something like this, it confuses the mind, and that becomes unnerving for the person who sees it. Also, the unknown. When there's no information available for something, it's more frightening."

Death Stranding is certainly unknown right now, but it remains to be seen how scary it will be. The suspense is building. What do you think will happen with the game?

Death Stranding is expected to be released sometime before 2019.

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