Konami and Bloober Workforce have made it abundantly clear on a number of events that their upcoming remake of Silent Hill 2 goes to be largely a trustworthy recreation of the legendary unique, although gamers can, after all, anticipate loads of adjustments nonetheless, from extra explorable buildings and a revamped introduction to altered dialogue and extra. One other change you can add to that record, apparently sufficient, is adjustments in enemy and encounter placements.
Talking in an interview in concern 44 of PLAY journal (caught by MP1st), Motoi Okamoto – Silent Hill’s lead sequence producer at Konami – revealed that the Silent Hill 2 remake options “some minor updates” the place enemies are involved, with their placements being remixed in order that even gamers conversant in the unique recreation may have a contemporary expertise.
“As for the creatures, we’ve some minor updates. We have now additionally changed and remapped all of the enemies from the place they have been positioned within the unique so everybody can have a contemporary tackle fight,” Okamoto stated.
Okamoto additionally went on so as to add that with the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake, Konami is seeking to illustrate how “critical” it’s about its ongoing revival efforts for the psychological horror franchise.
“We totally perceive that Silent Hill 2 holds a particular place in many individuals’s hearts as being memorable and as a masterpiece,” he stated. “So by introducing the remake of this recreation because the very first main title, we wished to [demonstrate] to all of our gamers, all of the followers, that Konami is critical about [renewing] the sequence, and that we’re able to delivering a high-quality Silent Hill recreation.”
At present, Konami has two different upcoming Silent Hill titles formally introduced within the type of Silent Hill: Townfall and Silent Hill f, although leaks have beforehand claimed that there are a number of different tasks within the works at nicely. Konami has additionally continued so as to add to its numbers to work on what it described as “large-scale” Silent Hill tasks.
Silent Hill 2 launches on October 8 for PS5 and PC. The sport can be roughly 16-18 hours lengthy for a mean playthrough, indicating a meatier expertise than the unique. Learn extra on that by right here.