While one could say the same thing for 2023’s Resident Evil 4 remake, the fact remains that the original RE4 is readily available on about a dozen platforms, including all of the modern consoles and PC. With Bloober’s remake looking like it’s set to “modernize” the visuals, writing, acting, and combat, there’s an understandable worry that so much of the original’s charm will be left by the wayside. Its strange script and off-kilter performances bolstered its excellently bizarre and unnerving tone, in a similar way that many of David Lynch’s classics do. Konami’s 2001 classic is a phenomenal game that handled its heavy themes of guilt, trauma, sexual frustration, and self-reflection in a manner far beyond not only most of its contemporaries, but most modern games as well. Bloober Team has a pretty spotty track record for its horror catalog outside of the solid Observer, especially when it comes to delivering a compelling story with rich themes. Like a lot of folks online, I wasn’t immediately sold on this one. Let’s get the elephant out of the room - the announcement that came with the most trepidation was the long-rumored Silent Hill 2 remake from Bloober Team, the Polish studio behind modern horror games like Layers of Fear, The Blair Witch, and The Medium, the last of which very much felt like a dry run for Silent Hill. And while the five projects it revealed didn’t all land with thunderous applause (and there’s obvious cause for concern for some of them), Konami’s willingness to hand over the reins to genuinely interesting developers and creators has me weirdly optimistic for the future of Silent Hill, which is not something I expected to be saying in the year 2022. After years of rumors, reports, teases, and disappointments, Konami finally unveiled its ambitious plans for the future of its beloved horror franchise during its Transmission livestream.
This has been a pretty strange week for Silent Hill fans like myself.
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