With the Silent Hill 2 remake a approach off, former collection developer and Immortality director Sam Barlow tells PCGamesN about how he’s cautiously optimistic for the Bloober Staff-headed Konami revamp, and why he can’t wait to see how the horror video games develop with the brand new course introduced alongside Silent Hill 2 final 12 months.
PCGamesN had the possibility to speak with Barlow, Natalie Watson, and Connor Carson of Half Mermaid whereas at GDC 2023 in San Francisco, and whereas we bought a cryptic reply about Half Mermaid’s subsequent recreation after Immortality, Barlow was rather more clear-cut on what he thinks in regards to the new course Konami is taking the Silent Hill collection in.
“Personally, I’m much less enthusiastic about taking part in a remaster,” Barlow tells PCGamesN. “It’s additionally like the largest poison chalice in videogames, doing a remaster of Silent Hill 2. I imply, good luck to them as a result of I don’t know the way you are able to do that with out upsetting folks.”
Layers of Concern, The Medium, Blair Witch, and Observer developer Bloober Staff is heading up the Silent Hill 2 remake for Konami, and whereas Barlow is much less within the remake than he’s within the new initiatives, it’s completely clear that he holds no disdain in direction of the remake or its builders, as an alternative understanding that the Silent Hill 2 remake is a tall order for some of the beloved video games of all time.
Konami put out a name for Silent Hill recreation pitches earlier this 12 months, after asserting all of its new horror video games within the collection. Barlow is in a singular place to touch upon these video games as he labored on each Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill: Shattered Recollections, and he’s really fairly excited in regards to the collection’ new course.
“The model of Silent Hill that I might love – which it seems like they’re pushing – is that ‘we use this as a platform to have a variety of fascinating psychological horror video games,’ proper? And really, can we see a breadth of gameplay? You understand, Twilight Zone, and people sorts of anthologies provide you with a way of what you’re getting your self in for however you’re additionally excited to see the other ways through which they are often explored.”
Barlow makes specific point out of No Code’s upcoming Silent Hill Townfall, saying he’s a giant fan of the studio and that he can’t wait to see what they’ve been teasing. We really revealed a Silent Hill Townfall trailer breakdown, with ideas in direction of the enemy sorts and settings getting used within the collection spin-off.
On prime of reports tales, we’ve additionally bought a full interview with Half Mermaid from GDC 2023 all in regards to the artwork of creating video games, the sport business as a complete, and rather more on the way in which quickly. Within the meantime, we’ve bought the Silent Hill 2 system necessities so that you can verify in opposition to your rig alongside a take a look at one of the best single-player video games for those who’re feeling that Silent Hill itch.
