There was a wholesome quantity of skepticism surrounding the Silent Hill 2 remake’s launch, and given developer Bloober Staff’s spotty monitor file, it wasn’t exhausting to grasp why. The survival horror title launched earlier this month although, and has completely proved doubters unsuitable, having fun with not solely widespread crucial acclaim, but in addition gross sales to match, having offered over one million items in its first three days.
Just lately, Bloober Staff introduced a brand new sci-fi survival horror title in Cronos: The New Daybreak, and with the unequivocal success of Silent Hill 2 beneath its belt, the developer is hoping to double down on that with its subsequent challenge.
Talking in a current interview with GameSpot, Wojciech Piejko – co-director of the aforementioned Cronos: The New Daybreak – spoke about how Bloober Staff was in a position to efficiently show doubters unsuitable with Silent Hill 2, and the way that’s going to uplift your complete studio, together with the completely completely different staff engaged on Cronos.
“It was robust for these couple of years earlier than [Silent Hill 2’s] launch,” he mentioned. “They made it. We made it. Bloober made it. And now, it’s superb spirits inside [the studio.] We need to present what we will do on our personal, how we will evolve our concepts.
“They recreated a legendary sport. They made the unattainable potential, and it was a bumpy street due to all of the hate on the web. The stress was large on them, they usually delivered, and for the corporate, it’s a tremendous second.”
Co-director and producer on Cronos: The New Daybreak, Jacek Zieba, added that Bloober Staff intends to stay with the horror style with its future initiatives, and says that the studio now intends to take a big step forward- because it did previous to the event of Layers of Worry, when it got down to cease making “sh***y” video games.
“We need to be a horror firm,” he mentioned. “We need to discover our area of interest, and we expect we discovered our area of interest, so now we simply–let’s evolve with it. […] And the way that occurs is extra complicated, but it surely additionally occurs organically in a approach, like with [2016’s] Layers of Worry, folks within the studio had been like, ‘Okay, we made some shitty video games earlier than, however we [can] evolve.’”
Piejko added, “We gathered a staff that loves horror. So I feel, for us, it will not be simple to modify [to other genres], and we don’t need to.”
Silent Hill 2 is obtainable on PS5 and PC, whereas Cronos: The New Daybreak is due out for PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, and PC in 2025. In the meantime, Bloober Staff additionally very a lot appears to be open to engaged on extra Silent Hill video games. Learn extra on that by way of right here.