Silent Hill 1 remake announced with the briefest of teaser trailers

Bloober and Konami collaborate connected different fearfulness game

Well good well, Silent Hill 2 remake developers Bloober Team are moving connected a remake of the precise archetypal Silent Hill successful collaboration with publishers Konami. Please springiness maine a fewer seconds to pat myself furiously connected the backmost for asking Bloober astir the prospects of an archetypal Silent Hill remake, mode backmost successful August past year. Oracular insight, thy sanction is Edwin. OK, that's capable patting, my shoulders are starting to hurt. You tin ticker the teaser trailer now, which surfaced during Konami's Press Start showcase today. Lovely to perceive that gut-twisting banjo melody again.

There's zip to accidental beyond what you spot successful that video - nary Silent Hill remake merchandise date, nary hint astir however the communicative oregon combat strategy mightiness change. The crippled is lone confirmed arsenic being "in development". We can, of course, marque deductions from Bloober's past efforts. In his Silent Hill 2 remake review, Brendy called it "a handsome fearfulness remake that plays harmless with its ain history". I had a fewer thinky thoughts myself astir the ceremonial ironies of remaking a crippled defined by repressed trauma.

Speaking of playing things safe, it seems apt that Bloober weren't being wholly consecutive with maine erstwhile I asked them wherefore they didn't commencement by remaking the archetypal crippled past year.

"I deliberation Silent Hill 2 conscionable matches our DNA mode better," Bloober's originative manager Mateusz Lenart told maine astatine the time. "It's overmuch much emotional, a overmuch much idiosyncratic communicative than, for example, the archetypal crippled oregon the 3rd game. And we astatine Bloober were ever fans of telling idiosyncratic stories astir people's experiences, people's feelings and however they spell done them. Not truthful overmuch about, you cognize know, occultism and things from different worlds, right? So I deliberation that was the main reason, basically."

Lead shaper Maciej Głomb qualified, however, that "it's not similar we were making this decision, right? The franchise is connected to Konami's plans."

If each this strikes you arsenic 1 throwback excessively many, you mightiness beryllium amended served by the forthcoming Japan-set Silent Hill f, and so by Silent Hill: Townfall, the spin-off from Observation developers No Code, of which small has been heard for immoderate time.