I think with the title of this article, you can already tell what I’m about to tell you. It should come as no surprise, but we should set up the story nonetheless. If you don’t know, there are a lot of talented and wonderful people that like to break games, I tend to do that without trying; Fallout 4 bugs and crashes aside. These people will take all sorts of games to pieces and break them, a bit like that weird kid that would always play with screwdrivers and turns out to be an engineer later in life.

Well, it seems one of these wonderful people, Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon on Twitter), has bent and broken P.T. P.T. being the “Playable Teaser” of a game Hideo Kojima was going to make following Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, a horror within itself at some points. Yes, I do believe Kojima thinks suitability is a brick in a tumble drier. So it should come as no surprise that the character you play as is not only Kojima’s newest toy in Death Stranding; but also the character at the end of the teaser as well.

Just to put any uncertainty finally to rest after all this time, yes, the guy you play as in P.T. is the same guy we see in the ending cinematic. Not that there any real doubt, but yeah, it's Norman Reedus the whole time. pic.twitter.com/PXh5svLRSi

— Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) December 12, 2019

As you can see above, from the wonderful work on Lance McDonald, the camera is not the first-person perspective the game is meant to be in. This allows us to see the mirror and see the character’s face for the first time in a slightly muggy and disgusting mirror. Of course, as I’ve already referred and Lance’s tweet says, The Walking Dead and Death Stranding star, Norman Reedus, was the player character the entire time.

Sadly, the downloadable demo from 2014 is no longer available in a well-storied break up between Kojima and Konami. The teaser not only saw Kojima in the role as director, the Mexican movie director, Guillermo Del Toro was also in this seat; with Ludvig Forssell composing the piece. History is what it is and Kojima, Reedus, Del Toro, Forsell, and the studio behind the demo went on to make what was this year’s Game Awards winner for “Best Game Direction,” “Best Score/music,” and “Best Performance” for Mads Mikkelsen.

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