Hideo Kojima's 'P.T.' Demo is Helping Japanese Kids Learn English

It’s been over a decade since Kojima Productions released P.T. , an interactive PlayStation 4 demo meant to set up the studio’s next project, Silent Hills . The demo was pulled after the game’s cancellation , but it’s found new life over in Japan as a tool to speak English.

Per Automaton , the Niigata Prefecture’s Tsunan Secondary School recently began having a fifth-year class—roughly high school sophomores for those in the west—play through P.T. entirely in English, from the dialogue to the menu text. After certain sections, the teacher pauses the demo to ask students what direction to go, and they’d have to answer in English with phrases like “walk around the room” or “answer the phone.” From there, they’d dictate the player’s next action.

In a translated school blog