I skimmed through the 8:51 trailer. I haven't been desperately trying to investigate every little nugget of information ever released about it so maybe that's why I feel this way but, I really don't see any appeal at all.
Apart from "aren't we weird and kooky!" I don't actually see anything that really sets it apart from everything else. You can walk. Slowly. I guess there's a bike too but never mind that when you can walk. SLOWLY. Oh and you can climb up AND down. ... Slowly. Oh and did you ever want to run away from hazmat dudes with cattle prod spears only to end up fighting them mano y mano one at a time while the others wait patiently for their turn to be manhandled by the hero? Then you've come to the right place! Ooooh but you can't manhandle everything. Sometimes, you will have to use the baby to scan the environment (I don't fucking know why, stop asking questions!) and there'll be lost smoke monster rip-offs that if they see you you might as well just accept death as their attack travels faster than you can run. Because you run slowly. Because movement is slow in this game. Personally I can't wait for them to show us that we can go prone and crawl. Imagine how slow that'll be! I for one LOVE taking forever to traverse vast sceneries to just get to a location I want to get to. Why walking simulators are my kink and boy does this make me throb with antici-... Pation.
I don't understand what this game is and I'm not interested enough to waste my time researching what the game is just so I can have a base understanding of it. I've had more fun writing this useless post than I had with that trailer. There comes a point when the story and setting is trying way too hard to be mysterious and teasing to the point that it is just alienating for me.
But hey, if the gameplay is good enough and straighforward enough then maybe it'll be the hook for me and over the course of playing the game the narrative will unfold itself and slowly begin to make sense. However, the gameplay quite frankly looks like the embodiment of "meh".
So, I don't get it. I don't get why there's a cult around Kojima that spends their days on this earth just fantasizing about washing his balls with their mouths. I don't get why this thing is promoted as if it is going to break the gaming world. I don't get why because it is weird it is somehow going to expand our minds and open our third eye with its message.
It's weird and I don't like it. Whenever I hear a game being hyped like fucking crazy I get suspicious of it. Witcher 3 got hyped as if it was the third cumming of christ and when I played it I found it to be oh so very vanilla when it came to every aspect of the gameplay with its only praise-worthy aspect being the story, writing, characters and voice acting. And quite frankly I would have preferred an animated tv-series over a game.
With that said I think this meme sums up my feelings towards, not necessarily the game, but the reaction to the game.
