New Silent Hill Games

[Silvanus]

No thread yet on the Silent Hill transmission news? What's going on!?


Konami finally stopped sitting on their piles of ill-gotten money and provided trailers for new & upcoming Silent Hill projects. We all knew about the high likelihood of a remake of Silent Hill 2 helmed by Bloober Team (best known for Layers of Fear and The Medium) because that news leaked ages ago, although it did finally get a proper trailer.

What wasn't so expected were trailers for two altogether new entries in the series: Silent Hill Townfall, being developed by No Code, and Silent Hill f, being written by the Visual Novel writer Ryukishi07. The latter looks much more stylistically Japanese than previous entries, with the trailer featuring red spider lillies and a Torii gate.

There was also an announcement of an "interactive streaming series", whatever that means, called Silent Hill Ascension, and another film called Return to Silent Hill.

The news starts at the 10 minute mark in the vid above. I'm altogether surprised and delighted we're getting anything from the Silent Hill franchise while Konami still holds those rights.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

It’s in the news and videos threads I think, but yeah this would help keep track of them all as they develop.

 

[Hawki]

No thread yet on the Silent Hill transmission news? What's going on!?

Radio silence.

 

[BrawlMan]

Radio silence.

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Looks like AAA horror and action horror is making a comeback. These SH games and SH2 Remake (all I am still wary of), Dead Space Remake, RE4Remake, and Callisto Protocol. Space Horror is making a big comeback too from all sides of the industry.

 

[Drathnoxis]

So what? Is their strategy to burn everybody out on Silent Hill all at once so they don't have to make any more for another decade? Or maybe they'll make a bunch of crappy products and release them all at once to cash in on the last remaining dregs of interest in the franchise.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

For reference -

 

[Casual Shinji]

Or maybe they'll make a bunch of crappy products and release them all at once to cash in on the last remaining dregs of interest in the franchise.

It's Konami, you tell me.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

It's Konami, you tell me.

That's the thing- I'm not even sure anymore. Konami could have built up so much failure that the counter rolled over and they're back in success territory. Stranger things have happened; most of them to me.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

That's the thing- I'm not even sure anymore. Konami could have built up so much failure that the counter rolled over and they're back in success territory. Stranger things have happened; most of them to me.

So they're the Anti-Gandhi?

 

[BrawlMan]

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[hanselthecaretaker]

So they're the Anti-Gandhi?

Hopefully more like a Remake-Gandhi.

Really though, it is kinda surprising that Konami would put all their eggs into the Silent Hill IP, after it has been rather cursed with a longer string of mediocrity than any successes enjoyed beforehand. I wonder how long this smorgasbord was in the works, and if it’s going to be treated as litmus test for their other IPs to follow or not.

 

[BrawlMan]

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[CriticalGaming]

Do you guys think there is any chance these will be good? Giving the history of the series and Konami as a company?

 

[BrawlMan]

Do you guys think there is any chance these will be good? Giving the history of the series and Konami as a company?

Considering all of these games are being outsourced to different devs, none internal within Konami, anything goes. SH2R can work as long as whatever veteran from Konami is guiding them not to fuck up. SHf looks the most interesting, because of the flower motif and having a 1960s Japanese setting. I love the concept of another country having their own type of Silent Hill that is just as nightmarish or worse than the small American town. The rest I wish the best of luck, but I have little to none interests in them.

 

[BrawlMan]

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[The Rogue Wolf]

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Watching Woolie absolutely lose his shit while Pat basically has a low-key "oh please God no" moment made my afternoon.

 

[immortalfrieza]

The Silent Hill 2 remake looks incredible and based on what's shown in the trailer they're sticking to the original very closely story and settingwise while updating it graphically and probably with gameplay. If they honestly do that the game is going to be great. I just wonder how they're going to keep things interesting for players of the original i.e. a great chunk of their primary audience who already know everything that's going to happen.

Silent Hill F... as someone who can't get enough of the Fatal Frame games it definitely looks interesting to me. The strong Japanese aesthetic does make me wary though, where's the Silent Hill in a Silent Hill game?

Ultimately the question is going to be if these games actually live up to their trailers.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

James looks hideous.

 

[immortalfrieza]

James looks hideous.

I agree, he does look awful in the PS2 version. The remake version looks amazing.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I agree, he does look awful in the PS2 version. The remake version looks amazing.

I am bested sir.