
Konami appears to be all in on its recently confirmed Silent Hill revival as the series' producer says he is always looking through pitches from external game studios to develop new entries and spin-offs. In an interview with IGN Japan, Motoi Okamoto said that since Konami can only make so many titles at once, it turned to indie creators to get games like the Silent Hill 2 remake and Silent Hill: Townfall off the ground. Now the revival project is public, Okamoto states he is "all ears" to more pitches.
While remarking that some Silent Hill projects never got off the ground, the producer said: "The fact we were reviving Silent Hill was a secret until now, so we couldn't exactly go out and yell 'Hey, everyone! Bring us your Silent Hill projects!' We can do that now, so if creators from around the world who love Silent Hill bring us their pitches, I promise to look through every one of them. We're all ears."
Okamoto sees the Silent Hill franchise as a "unique, highly artistic, and original" one, and hopes to continue that with new entries like Silent Hill F. Discussing what appears to be the next mainline entry, Okamoto said he's "happy to see players reacting to Silent Hill F, which is a Japanese-style horror game, with even stronger interested than I’d expected".
As for why Konami decided to go straight to the second game instead of remaking Silent Hill on PS1, Okamoto said the publisher focused on what the series' identity was, eventually landing on its psychological horror nature. Since most employees agreed Silent Hill 2 is most closely associated with that theme, they decided James Sunderland's search for his dead wife is the right place to start. "There were of course some people inside the company who thought it would be better to start with 1, but I wanted to start this project with something that symbolizes this identity."
The remake of Silent Hill 2 is being led by Layers of Fear, The Medium developer Bloober Team while the Observation team No Code makes Silent Hill: Townfall. Meanwhile, Silent Hill F is a "completely new story set in 1960's Japan featuring a beautiful, yet horrifying world. Written by Ryūkishi07, famed for Japanese visual novels dealing with murder mysteries, psychological and supernatural horror."
[source ign.com]
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Its cool to see they are open to more, and that's good.
But maybe calm down a bit and see how the current project turns out before getting into anything else.
I’m sure that Hasan Khariman is flicking through his Japanese telephone directory to the K section as I type this.
Silent Hill: MCU - will Spiderman escape the town of Silent Hill with his sanity intact? Battle the Red Witch as she plunges the webslinger into an alternate horror universe, complete with… murderous nuns? Hmm…
Sounds like they are copying Resident Evil with remakes of old games and new entries.It's working well for Capcom hopefully Konami can deliver.
I'm not expecting much as haven't liked anything made by Bloober and Konami hasn't put out anything decent for years.
Castlevania playas.come on konami.theres already a lot of silent hill games already.word up son
Why Silent Hill 2? The cynic in me says they would have picked whichever title debuted pyramid head because they knew that would draw the most money - not that there is anything wrong with that. Makes sense to revisit the title that fans connect with the most
I have a pitch! How about for your next game you have the renowned Hideo Kojima as the Director, the extremely talented horror director Guillermo Del Toro helping with the story and Norman Reedus playing the main character?
1. Get your upcoming games right first.
2. Put your classic games on streaming services.
Capable remasters of the first four games on modern platforms.
Don't know if I want anything actually new from them until we see how this current slate of projects turns out.
Hopefully the Konami Redemption Arc continues unabated.
Hell yeah dude, I am down for this. After years of radio silence, I'll take anything I can get.
Been waiting years for a new silent hill so excited
Well that feels like a huge stretch. The trailer for "f" is very cool but it's prerendered, so it's not representative of what the actual game will be. It's just a tone piece and a statement of intent.
f is being developed by the same team that handled Resident Evil REVerse, and that game is...let's just say rough, to put it mildly. I'd love to be happy that Silent Hill is coming back after so damn long, but all but one project Konami announced has some kind of sizable red flag attached.
We're getting a Silent Hill 2 Remake, but it's coming from Bloober.
We're getting a new movie, but Gans is writing AND directing.
We're getting SH Ascension, but it's some weird ass community choice driven, one-off, live-streamed not-a-game.
Silent Hill f is coming from the REVerse team
SH Townfall is the only one of the announced projects that I have even a modicum of faith in, and that's only because I know developer No Code's reputation.
I'll happily eat my words if these turn out great, but I have so little faith in Konami that I'm not holding my breath.
translation: "yes, all of us at konami are interested in your money."
perhaps konami should see how well everything plays out before jumping the gun and ASSUMING we will want more after these revival projects? in the wrong hands, they might have a PR disaster and tarnish the IP even further. konami didn't exactly go out of its way to find reputable and/or AAA studios to work on its latest projects which is already disappointing in itself.
@Ralizah Agreed, but in case you didn't know you can buy a pretty well-running copy of SH4 for PC on GOG.
I really hope they stick to the original formula. The town is silent hill and it needs to feel isolated and confusing. If it goes all apocalypse and starts devouring the world I’ll be so upset. I really hate when things like that happen (like when the world finds out a super hero’s identity or when it doesn’t feel isolated anymore.)
Keep silent hill creepy and isolated!
"If creators from around the world who love Silent Hill bring us their pitches, I promise to look through every one of them."
I'll hold them to that when I send my first draft for a slapstick-style remake, starring Norman Wisdom as Pyramid Head.
Pro Evo remakes from the PS2 and N64 era (iSS64!). No monetise bollocks, just that sweet sweet sweet nostalgia rushing through my veins again
Jaw Dropping Stuff.
@BusyOlf iss64 only football game I had fun playing lol. Goro majima the funniest guy in the yakuza games him rising out of the bin cracked me up and goro zombie lol and monetizing worse thing to happen to games.
They should make a sequel to symphony of the night with the same gorgeous style of graphics.
Lets see how the Silent Hill 2 remake goes first.
I thought Silent Hill 1 was already remade in Shattered memories.
Didn't really make sense to do it again.
I shall reserve judgment until Silent Hill 2 remake has released.
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