Unveiled during a State of Play in April 2021, Abandoned was immediately associated with Hideo Kojima, following the overflowing imagination of its fans, but also partly because of the creator of the game, a certain Hasan Kahraman, who played a lot of the artistic vagueness that surrounded his game. For many Internet users, it was a marketing stunt on the part of the creator of Metal Gear Solid, used to playing with players by leaving clues here and there, which could prepare the return from Silent Hill, after the aborted demo that was PT The sequel, we know it and since then, Abandoned has been a project that got bogged down in dishonest communication methods, shedding light on Hasan Kahraman, customary in scams.
In his latest Brain Structure podcast, available on Spotify, the Japanese game designer returned to the game Abandoned, alongside his friend Geoff Keighley. Kojima-san has indeed expressed his weariness of always receiving messages and photo-montages associating him with the game Abandoned and Hasan Kahraman, specifying that he hopes that Internet users will stop with their theories which do not hold water.
Users kept sending me pictures of this "Hasan". They still send me montages and deep fakes, about twenty a day, it's really very painful. When we did this thing with Moby Dick (the fake studio and the fake person for the announcement of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, editor's note), you were involved Geoff and it was kind of fun.
But people should know that I never do the same thing twice. I never spoke with Hasan, the game hasn't been released yet. I don't think he can say or do much at this point. But if the game releases a game, people will probably understand. Maybe he should hurry and get it out.
If Hideo Kojima finally makes it known that this little game of theories no longer really makes him laugh, we must not forget that the latter is the initiator, he who has often played with the players, by creating a fake studio, a fake game design named after Joakim Mogren. Without forgetting that he reiterated the thing with PT before revealing that it was a demo to relaunch the Silent Hill license. For a few weeks now, Hideo Kojima has been teasing again with his next game, Overdose, which unfortunately leaked 24 hours ago, with gameplay that ended up on the web. Moral of the story, there is never smoke without fire...
