Very like Capcom beginning its Resident Evil remakes with the second sport, Konami has finished the identical with Silent Hill – however the query is, why?
You’ll suppose that the logical solution to remake a collection is ranging from the start, however when Konami lastly revealed that the Silent Hill collection was making a comeback, it did so by saying a few new video games, and naturally, a remake of fan favorite Silent Hill 2 from Bloober Group. It is that fan favorite level that’s most likely an enormous motive as to why it has obtained the remake therapy first, however in a latest interview with Rock Paper Shotgun, Bloober Group’s inventive director Mateusz Lenart and lead producer Maciej Głomb supplied some extra in-depth causes as to why it was that the second sport is kicking off the Silent Hill revival.
“I believe Silent Hill 2 simply matches our DNA method higher,” Lenart defined. “It is way more emotional, a way more private story than, for instance, the primary sport or the third sport. And we at Bloober have been all the time followers of telling private tales about folks’s experiences, folks’s emotions and the way they undergo them. Not a lot about, you understand, occultism and issues from different worlds, proper? So I believe that was the primary motive, principally.”
As RPS notes, the primary sport is a little more supernatural, there’s some imprecise stuff a couple of bizarre church that comes throughout a contact cultish, it is much more in regards to the vibes than it’s some sort of psychological character research, which Silent Hill 2 roughly is. Lenart defined that Bloober prefers to inform extra “grounded” tales, saying “Clearly [our games] characteristic some supernatural components, however ultimately it is all a couple of particular individual, on a particular journey that they should make to seek out out the reality about themselves.”
Whereas Silent Hill 2 would possibly slot in higher at Bloober, that does not imply the choice was all all the way down to them. Głomb additional defined, “Yeah, Silent Hill 2 is the perfect match for us as Bloober Group, by way of our DNA and the video games that we have finished and that we did beforehand. Then again, it isn’t like we have been making this determination, proper? The franchise is linked to Konami’s plans.”
We’re clearly conscious of a few of these plans, with different video games like the possibly extra indie-oriented Silent Hill: Townfall, and the Japanese-set Silent Hill f, however we’ll have to attend and see if Konami has extra concepts in terms of remaking different video games within the collection. Our personal Kelsey not too long ago acquired to go hands-on with the remake, coming away from it feeling that “despite all my qualms and rising apprehension, it’s protected to say that Bloober Group has, up to now, finished the perfect job it presumably might have finished whereas recreating the deeply-troubled world of Silent Hill.”
