Big companies told Hideo Kojima he's 'crazy' for OD — Xbox backed the project

OD marks Hideo Kojima's return to horror. Co-written with Jordan Peele and starring Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schafer and a posthumous Udo Kier, the game’s early trailers might look like a standard horror title, but Kojima says it’s far stranger: "I wanted to do something new. I wanted to do something different," he told Entertainment Weekly. He says the OD concept dates back to his work on Death Stranding and that he developed it alone. "It’s something that no one has ever seen before. A new game system," Kojima said. He adds that he pitched OD to many large and smaller companies, but they "said that I'm crazy, and that they really don't understand the concept—that they will not be able to do it." The project will be published by Xbox Game Studios, and former Xbox head Phil Spencer was reportedly supportive.