Konami wanted more changes in Silent Hill 2 Remake, but Bloober Team said no

A pesar de todas las críticas que está recibiendo Bloober Team por lo que han dejado ver de Silent Hill 2 Remake, en Team Silent parecen tener otras opiniones

Few games are as anticipated and feared as Silent Hill 2 Remake. Partly because it’s a cult game, highly beloved both within and outside the horror gaming community, partly because what the ads have portrayed thus far doesn’t seem exactly the same as the original. That’s something that the makers of the original Silent Hill, Team Silent, have something to say about.

In a recent interview with Famitsu, Japan’s longest-running video game magazine, Silent Hill 2 Remake producer Motoi Okamoto made some surprising statements. When asked if it was difficult to strike a balance between introducing new elements and maintaining what made the original so memorable, Okamoto responded affirmatively. But he didn’t stop there. He stated that, in fact, the original developers wanted even more changes to be made.

According to Okamoto himself, “the Japanese team, including Masahiro Ito, the original designer, and Akira Yamaoka, the sound designer, would say ‘we want to change this part!’, and Bloober Team would often contend, ‘no, we don’t want to change this!'” The reason for this, Okamoto says, is that Bloober Team are big fans of the original game. That’s why they didn’t want to make big changes to the original Silent Hill 2.

Okamoto clarified that Japan’s perspective was to do something different. He explained that “(the creators) don’t want people to play the same thing. That’s why there were a lot of things they wanted to completely change in the remake,” and pointed out that “the remake ended up being extremely respectful to the original game. If we had formed a development team entirely in Japan, it would have been a completely different remake.”

This is a bit surprising because it clashes with many fans’ impressions. Insisting that the changes have been for the worst, that Bloober Team was not the right team to tackle this remake, and that it doesn’t reflect the spirit of the game at all, there seems to be a clear difference of opinion between the creators and the players. But we’ll still have to wait for our chance to play it ourselves and see firsthand which of the two sides is right.

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The developers of the Silent Hill 2 remake would be working on two other projects

Bloober Team has confirmed that they are working on two new IPs, one of which is set to be announced in 2024, perhaps before the release of Silent Hill 2 Remake.

Bloober Team is an uneven studio. With excellent games like Layers of Fear or Observer, they also have terrible failures like The Medium or Blair Witch. That’s why we don’t know what to expect from their next game, the remake of Silent Hill 2. Although what we do know to expect is what they will do next. They have announced that they are working on two new games.

In a letter to shareholders, Bloober Team has confirmed that they are working on two new games. The first one is Project C, a new IP, which they are working on with Take-Two Interactive and will be announced later this year. The other one is Project R, a game that will be released in 2025, and is based on an IP from Skybound Entertainment, the company created by Robert Kirkman, the creator of The Walking Dead.

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Although we don’t have more information, Skybound Entertainment has a handful of IPs that would fit well with Bloober Team, a studio specialized in horror. However, among all of them, the one that would probably fit them the most is Outcast, a comic by Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta, about a man involved in demonic possessions since his childhood.

Meanwhile, in the same letter, Bloober Team has assured to be confident in the Silent Hill 2 remake. So, we just have to wait and see how all this turns out.

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