Even five years after its release, P.T. remains one of the most mysterious horror/puzzle games. According to an IGN theory, the infamous playable teaser is has reached the status of an urban legend.
IGN goes in-depth about the theory of why P.T. has become such a legend with some pretty convincing points. The original Silent Hill released for the PlayStation 1 was widely considered to be one of the creepiest video games of its time. Fast forward to P.T. and gamers had a very similar reaction. But it wasn’t the creep factor alone that made P.T. the urban legend it is today. A lot of it had to to with solving what P.T. actually was. Players and streamers had to work together to solve puzzles and discover secrets. All this work to reach the end which caused an explosion of excitement.
P.T. wasn’t just a demo, it was a teaser for Silent Hills and featuring Norman Reedus, no less.
Even after its release (and sadly the no-go on the full-length project), players were still discovering secrets about the demo. One recent discovery that stunned everyone was that Lisa actually follows the player around the house the entire time. She’s literally right behind the protagonist at any given point.
The teased Silent Hill game never launched, but that didn’t stop fans from nit-picking every creak and shadow in P.T. It’s often referred to in streams and play-throughs and a lot of horror games that came after took heavy inspiration from it.
To make things even more mysterious, Konami removed the demo from the Playstation store after the full game was canceled. P.T. literally exists as a ghost, though luckily a fan-made version was created to soothe the burn of losing the original.
IGN’s theory looks pretty solid, all things considered. P.T. is the Big Foot of the gaming world, the lock ness monster of the Playstation. It is an urban legend that will most likely go down as one of the most mysterious games of the early century.
Source: IGN
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