Se🅷ries producer Motoi Okamoto opens the segment saying that "Silent Hill was a series that fused the essence of western horror and Japanese horror, as the series progressed I felt that the essence of Japanese horror was lost." After the likes of Homecoming and Downfall (which were developed by American and Czech studios, respectively), Okamoto felt "a desire to create a Silent Hill with 100% essence of Japanese-style horror."

He explains that NeoBards was selected by Konami to develop the game as the studio had done great work with Japanese publishers in the past (with the studio working on a ton of re-releases for Capcom). With NeoBards game producer Albert Lee saying "we had discussions with Konami on how to create a game experience that maintains꧑ the spirit of Silent Hill within a Japanese atmosphere."

The game's director Al Yang adds that "with the major thematic shift it was a🧸bsolutely critical for us to not merely copy, but really understand what the key atmospheric elements that define the classic Silent Hill titles were, in order to evolve them for [Silent Hill] f." And considering the previous games and films used Pyramid Head like a mascot, I'm super hopeful for Silent Hill f, because that statement alone proves NeoBards gets it.

Elsewhere in the Konami Press Start stream, we got a new look at 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater which revealed its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:online multiplayer mode Fox Hunt. Plus, Konami announced it was teaming up with Bloober Team again to create a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:remake of the original Silent Hill.

Silent Hill f actor spent so long playing her role that "I almost felt my own sanity slipping," and I'm starting to see a pattern here.

This news was unveiled during the , just over 30 minutes showing off new Konami games and teasing what's in the works. We got an extended look at 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater – a remake of 2004's Metal Gear Solid 🐈3: Snake Eate🔯r.

We only got the briefest of teasers for Silent Hill, on the other hand, which is bound to disappoint some of you who wanted to actually see the remake in act💮ion. But at least we know it﷽'s in development.

The teaser was shown last in Konami's showcase, right after the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill f section, and a tweet from the officialﷺ Silent Hill account reads (with translations 🙈provided by Google): "Please watch the video with audio. Please await further updates for further details."

The news is being received very well over on the . People are sharing GIFs of tears of joy and hyperventilating into paper 🐼bags. So, various kinds of happiness and excitement are ꦯon display.

"This is so sick," writes a fan. "After SH2 [澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2] Remake I know Bloober will make this an amazing r🌃emake. Holy shit this is so sick." Another replies, "I really hope Bloober gets the oꦆpportunity to remake SH4 [Silent Hill 4] as well. The imagery in that game is so disturbing and I know they'd nail it."

Are you excited?

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If it wasn't already clear from the Silent Hill name alone that the next mainline title would be gruesome and terribly bleak, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the game's ESRB rating was revealed in March and teased such atrocities as "Faces ripped apart," "a character burned alive inside a cage," and "entra🔴ils and sinew displayed on serving platters." Needless to say, Silent Hill f, as with any Silent Hill game, is probably not for the faint of heart.

Take it from Kato Konatsu, who portrays Silent Hill f lead protagonist Shimizu Hinako. Konatsu shared a message via the official Japanese , translated 🃏by , and while my sympathies go out to the actor, I have to admit I'm eve🎃n more excited for this nightmare of a game now.

"I've been living as Hinako in the world of Silent Hill for a long time now," said Konatsu. "On some days, I almost felt my own sanit꧂y slipping, but it was worth it to be able to contribute to this game."

A key staple of the Silent Hill series is its main characters losing their minds in the wake of unfathomable tragedies, but it's a little concerning to se🐻e that trend continue in real-life actors portraying those characters.

Konami shared the 澳洲幸运5开奖𝔍号码历史查询:first Silent Hill f gameplay trailer at this week's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PlayStation State of Play, and while the September release date was undoubtedly the biggest news out of the showcase, it was the absolutely dera𒈔nged creature designs that have really stuck with me in the days since.

It's 🉐worth noting that developer NeoBards, which made Resident Evil Resistance and ReVerse, has yet to really prove itself with a mainline single-player game of this caliber, so I'm staying cautiously optimistic about Silent Hill f for now. But with this latest trailer keeping me up at night, and now with Konatsu's comments on acting for the game, I'm finding myself less and less cautious by the day.

Konami says Silent Hill f is "independent" from the rest of the series: "People who have never played the series before can enjoy it"

OK, I'm officially sold on Silent Hill f. Not that there was ever a universe where I wouldn't be playing it day one, but I refuse to get too excited about anything until I see some gameplay, and with Konami dropping the first Silent Hill f gameplay trailer during today's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PlayStation State of Play, not to mention nailing down a September 25 release date, we might as well just kick off the Halloween season three months ahead of 🦩schedule.

The trailer starts with a familiar scene as we see protagonist Shim♚izu Hinako wander through a fog-covered town from 1960s Japan encountering utterly hideous creatures. But this time around, we actually get to see combat for the first time, with Hinako dodging, blocking, and clubbing monsters to death with a furor that seems to lend itself to a more intense combat system.

And indeed, in the PlayStation Blog accompanying the release date announcement, producer Motoi Okamoto said "the combat will have a heavier ꧙focus on melee and be more action-oriented compared to last year'🌼s Silent Hill 2."

Sile🌃nt Hill f also continues to impress/disturb me with its creature design. The series is known for producing some of the most nightmare inducing baddies ever, but still it seems they've stepped it up a notch here. I mean, whatever Hinako's friend turned into at the end of the trailer... that thing just about made my stomach turn. And I'm here for it.

Here are the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best horror games to play right here and now.

Outside of the setting making 𓂃it stick out, it's also one of the only games in the series to not take place in Silent Hill itself (from what we know anyway, I'm sure there's a swerve in there). And now the game's publisher, Konami, is using this fact as a way to draw in potential new fans. On the official account, Konami posted (via ma🗹chine translation), "This is a completely new work independent of the series. Even those who have never played the 'Silent Hill' series can enjoy this game."

Granted – even though I know why Konami is doing this – that's pretty much the case for the majority of Silent Hill games (outside of the first game and third). While there are details to be found in each game that hint at the events of others, the majority of stories in the series are self-contained. You're really not missing too much in Silent Hill 2 if you haven't played the original Silent Hill.

But it's nice to know that Konami is positioning the new game as a starting point to get people into one of its best series, even if they're going to have to deal with "fa🔯ces ripp♎ed apart," "a character burned alive inside a cage," "entrails and sinew displayed on serving platters," and all of that heartwarming stuff.

Nintendo files new trademarks for 2 Metroid classics and a beloved 2007 DS game, sparking hopes of remakes: "Never say never."

Per , Return to Silent Hill is set for a theatrical release on the big screen. There's stil𒊎l no release date attached, but we now know Cineverse has acquired the rights for the movie in the US. The company promised it'll be "a fai✅thful adaptation of the video game Silent Hill 2," which is pretty much exactly what the 2006 Silent Hill wasn't.

This might be a hot take, but ꦓ2006 Silent Hill is a vibe, man. The plot's a little all over the place and it's not afraid to take creative liberties that diverge from the games, but divorced from the Silent Hill name it's a half-decent supernatural horror movie with solid acting, great practical effects, and a consistently oppressive atmos🌠phere.

That said, it is not a faithful adaptation of the games. With just how good Silent Hill 2's story is🤪, I'm glad to hear Gans and co. are focusing on a more direct interpretation.

For what it's worth, the official pres𓆏s release includes the film's premise, and yeah, it se﷽ems pretty faithful:

"James, a man broken after his relationship with the love of his life,🐈 Mary, ends. When a mysterious letter from her calls him back to Silent Hill, he finds a once-recognizable town transformed by an unknown evil.

While James desperately searches for Mary he encounters terrifying creatures and begins to unravel the mystery of what happened to the town. But as he descends deeper into the darkness the secrets he unco𝓡vers lead to a horrifying truth, and James finds himself struggling to hold on long enough to save his one true love."

Return to Silent Hill stars Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again lead Jeremy Irvine as main protagonist 🐼James Sunderland and Jigsaw star Hannah Emil♋y Anderson as Mary Shepherd-Sunderland.

"I am delighted to partner with Cineverse, which has shown a genuine understanding of fanship," ꦺsaid Gans. "Return to Silent Hill is an adaptation created out of deep respect for a true masterpiece of a game, Konami's iconic Silent Hill 2. I hope fans will enjoy and be fulfilled with the experience this new film has to offer."

Until then, here are the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Silent Hill games you can play tonight, with🌌 the lights turne﷽d off, of course.

The gameplay preview suggests sci-fi Cronos could be the Dead Space of my unpleasant dreams, rooted in familiar humanity rather than the iconic 2008 survival shoot𝕴er's more clinical, dull metal spaceship. But instead of letting its horror unfold in a sterile environment, Cronos seems to let it mingle with reality.

Sure, there are earthworm-colored🦩 aliens – which apparently have the ability to merge their skin with one another as if made from chewing gum, "turning every encounter into a mind-bending nightmare and a struggle for survival," PR says. But Cronos' time-traveling protagonist alsܫo wanders through empty apartments, over winding cobblestone streets in a deadly Polish winter.

This more anxious approach to horror – taking recognizable, comforting scenes and coating them in plague – reminds me of the surreal 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 remake; it seems that Bloober has learned a lesson in psychological subtlety, showing fearsomeness rather than instructing you to be afraid, as its 2016 game Layers of Fea🎃r did.

Cronos: The New Dawn also looks like it'll be much more proactive than that game, which players have sometimes derisively . The Traveler, encased in th🦹eir clunky gray spacesuit, apparently gets to twirl around during zero-gravity ju🐬mps and whack monsters with many kinds of explosives, contributing to the dusty wind that surrounds them.

"Bring them back," the gameplay trailer instructs in big red letꦓters about w🌃hat PR describes as a group of "enigmatic characters" – all human. Will see what's left of them when Cronos: The New Dawn releases some time this year.

Travel through time rifts to search for survivors in sci-fi survival horror Cronos: The New Dawn.

There have been a lot of different interpretations of Silent Hill at this point, but – barring Ascension and The Short Message – they've all had one thing in common: actually taking place in Silent Hill, Maine (the titular Book of Memories was sent from Silent Hill, I'm counting it). But Silent Hill f is breaking that trend; this time around it's taking place in 1960s Japan in a town called Ebisugaoka (which is based on a town that can be澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: jus🐠t as 💫spooky, according to the locals).

And of course, there's another layer to Silent Hill; at some point or another, the protagonist will wander into the Otherworld. This is a part of Silent Hill that can reflect the psyche of whoever inhabits it (most famously it's a rusty and bloody mess in the original game). This time around, the Otherworld takes place in a place called 'The Dark Shrine,' we didn't get to see much of it in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the recent trailer, al༒though it was home to a horrific doll monster.

Konami made a new post on the 🐻showing off The Dark Shrine in all its glory. While this isn't exactly a big deal, Silent Hill f's director, Al Yang, chimed in with some more detaiꦑls about the new Otherworld. In a Yang said, "One of the big challenges for us on SILENT HILL f was to create an interesting Otherworld for our new setting." Afterwards, Yang dug a little deeper into the philosophy behind the design, saying that NeoBards wanted to find "that blend of new and nostalgic."

Of course, details on just what Silent Hill f has in store are still being held close to Konami's chest. But considering the game has already been 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:rated by the ESRB and CERO (making it the first game in the series to be澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: rated 18+ in Japan), it's liไkely we'll find out more in the near future.

In other Silent Hill news, series artist and Pyramid Head creator Masahiro Ito is getting frustrated with – as he puts it – "fucking ridiculous headcanons."

Spoilers for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 and its remake are below, as well as mentions of potentially upsetting topics like sexual assault.

Silent Hill is a series that inspires a ton of fan theories. When you're dealing with the occult or unreliable narrators in a town that has been shown to be able to shape itself to specifically target people's trauma, there's no doubt a lot of interpretations that can come to be. A developer from Bloober Team – who developed the Silent Hill 2 remake – even said they 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:spent hours looking up fan theories during the remake's development.

While some of these are extremely out there – like a theory/debate on whether Silent Hill 4's Walter Sullivan is circumcised () – some of these are more realistic than others. There was a long-standing theory that James Sunderland had his dead wife Mary's body in the back of his car, which was confirmed by using the camera out of bounds in the Silent Hill 2 remake. Plus, a theory of the game taking place in a time loop due to series' art director that every Silent Hill 2 ending is canon seems to have been 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:hinted at in the remake.

However, despite being a proponent of some theories, Ito is seemingly tired of them. showing artwork of the Silent Hill 2 boss, Abstract Daddy, which is theorized to be a monstrous manifestation of the character Angela Orosco's trauma after 🍌she was sexually assaulted.

While Ito that the version of this monster that James sees is different to what Angela sees, a fan asked Ito if James had also been a victim of sexual assualt, which would trigger his response to the boss. this had ꦐto be the case and said that the fan in question should "listen to their own thoughts without listening to famous head𓃲canons."

on things in response to a fan saying the theory "has no merit at all" by saying, "but 'low IQs' believe the insane theories and spread them. I occasionally need to deny the fuckin ridiculous headcanons." I imagine it has to be exhausting being any prominent game dev on Twitter (see: Hideki Kamiya's mentions being filled with vitriol after he said he felt bad 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历﷽史✨查询:Assassin's Creed Shadows was criticized so much), so it's no wonder Ito is starting to get a bit annoyed with the amount of theories he receives almost daily.

A developer on the Silent Hill 2 remake recently revealed that he was 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"afraid there might be no good way" to rebuild the game.

The Australian ratings board has been known to refuse to rate games fairly regularly, with the likes of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:South Park: The Stick of Truth and having to be edited to release in the country. While it has calmed down in recent years with the introduction of the R18+ rating in 2013, some games like Sludge Life and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hotline Miami 2 are still unavailable in Australia. It looked like Silen💟t Hill f would be the next game to join the 𒆙list, but it seems like that was a mistake.

In a statement to GamesRadar+, a spokesperson from the Classification Board told us, "澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill f is not currently classified as ‘Refused Classification’ in Australia." The game's page on the has been removed, implying it was mistak꧋enly posted in the first place.

So as it currently stands, Silent Hill f isn't banned in Australia. However, this does not mean it's in the clear. While the game no longer has a 'Refused Classification" rating, the Australian Classification Board hasn't given it a different r🍸ating either. There's still a chance the game can be refused classification later down the line. The spokesperson from the Classification Board told us that "a classification decision will be published to the National Classification Database ahead of the game’s release💃."

One of the themes that often lead to bans with the Australian Classification Board is drug use. Wasteland 3 and Fallout 3 both had to have edits over the use of drugs in-game. While it doesn't necessarily mean a ban is going to happen, It's worth noting that the mentions "drug-induced hallucinations."

Banned or not, it looks like Silent Hill f is going to be pretty unsettling, with Konami urging players, "If you feel uncomfortable at any point while playing, please take a break."

Well, the next bit of evidence in favor of༒ 'Silent Hill f is going to be super scary' has just dropped. The Australian government has for the upcoming horror game, that 𓃲being 'RC,' which is 'Refused Classification. This means that without changes to the game's content, it won't be released in Australia.

While the Australian government website typically gives a reꦆason for something being refused classification, the section for that simpl𒊎y says, "For further information regarding the reason for this decision, please contact us." GamesRadar+ has contacted the ratings board and will provide an update should we get a response.

However, with the horrific details listed in the ESRB description and the , saying the game ꧙features depictions of "gender discrimination, child abuse, bullying, drug-induced hallucinations, torture, and graphic violence," it's probably one or many of those that are the reason for Australia's decision. The only Silent Hill game banned in Australia previously was 2008's Silent Hill: Homecoming, which ended up being in a censored state the following year.

Video game bans still happen shockingly frequently in Australia; most recently, the upcoming fighter 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hunter x Hunter Nen x Impact was banned ahead of its launch later this year.

Ito first shared the below images in August 2022, but he recently reposted them to Twitter in the wake of Konami's recent 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:re-reveal of Silent Hill f, the next mainline game in the series. To be fair, the connection between Ito's new tweet and ✤the new Silent Hill f trailer is tenuous at best, b😼ut the timing is notable.

"They are some of creature concept sketches I drew in 2016," Ito said. "They were not chosen back then, but still exist in my mꦇind and their children may be in any titles in future."

Again, as far as we know, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ito isn't inv❀olved in Silent Hill f in any way and almost certainly isn't suggesting his concept art will be used in any upcoming Silent Hill game, but I'd imagin💜e if his work is up for sale, there will be plenty𓄧 of bidders among horror game devs.

While Silent Hill f isn't benefitting from Ito's iconic art, there is another legendary name attached to the game: Higurashi When They Cry creator Ryukishi07, who's writing f's story and recently said he worked so hard on it that "I don't think I would mind if it was the last💞 thing I ever wrote."

Silent Hill 2 remake director had no choice but to make Pyramid Head "more aggressive and faster" during his iconic fight: "We've been losing something, but we've been gaining something, too."

Despite being in the Silent Hill canon, this will be a new story that takes us away from the mainstay of the series' iconic small-town setting of Maine, USA, for the first time. In fact, we're heading to 1960s Japan, no doubt bringing the story more in line with the densely atmospheric cinematic horrors that the region is known for. We'll be taking on the role of Hinako, and with its appearance during Summer Game Fest, we also know it promises to be more action-oriented than last year's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 remake.

From everything we've seen so far, it's quickly shaping up to be one of the most exciting 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming horror games, and with a September release, it's also one of the biggest 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new games for 2025 headed our way. For a full recap of everything we know so far about 🤪Silent Hill f, read on below.

Silent Hill f release date confirmed

Silent Hill f is set to release on September 25, 2025.

The release date was revealed du💯ring o🍎ur very first look at Silent Hill f in action during a gameplay trailer in the State of Play June showcase. Konami also confirmed following the showcase that its a standalone spinoff that can be enjoyed by those new to the series, but there will be plenty of Easter eggs for longtime fans, too.

Silent Hill f platforms

It's been confirmed that Silent Hill f will launch on PC, Xbox Series X, and PS5!

Having an Xbox confirmation is big news, especially considering how the 2024 Silent Hill 2 Remake was a PC and PlayStation exclusive. It also seems like every gamer will have access to the title on day one, as no exclusivity deals have been mentioned either. Currently, you can already wishlist the title o꧃n your platform of choice!

What platform we are still waiting on, however, is the Switch and Switch 2. We are holding out hope that Silent Hill f gets added to our list of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Switch 2 games in the future. But as it currently stands, Nintendo is avoiding all the nightmares and mayhem for now. We'll keep you posted if any news heads our way. In the meantime, if you need something to hold you over while you wait for a release, you can also check out our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Silent Hill games to play today.

Silent Hill f trailer

PlayStation revealed a new 🐬Silent Hill f trailer in March 2025 and its a doౠzy. Running for almost four minutes long we are treated to cinematic shots of the game's setting, the fictional town of Ebisugaoka, Japan, and we get to meet our protagonist, the high school student Hinako Shimizu.

The town is ominous from the get-go in the trailer, immersed in a thick fog that soon has Hinako wandering around empty streets. However, things really kick off when we spot some Red Spide෴r Lilies blooming (you know that flower that symbolizes death?). Hinako is transported to another plane of exist𓆉ence, walking through a temple that seems to be filled with a myriad of monsters.

While not much is given away in terms🍬 of story, the trailer does promise one thing: expect to be creeped out. If you doubt that fact, make sure you rewatch the last few seconds of the teaser above, they end things with a gruesome punch as Hinako's skin starts peeling off her face. Delightful!

Silent Hill f story and setting

Silent Hill f is an origin🌱al story, meaning that you won't need to have played any of the previous games in the series ahead of its release. It's also the first Silent Hill game to give us a story set in Japan! That's right; we are moving away from the titular New England town seen in Konami's past main-line entries to a new continent.

During this upcoming horror game, you'll be navigating the Japanese town of Ebisugaoka during the 1960s. A fun fact: the town of Ebisugaoka is based on a real place called Kan🦋ayama, Gero, in the Gi🐎fu Prefecture. Written by Japanese author and artist Ryukishi07, the story of Silent Hill f will follow the high schooler Hinako Shimizu, who 🦹lives an ordinary life until a mysterious fog engulfs her town and begins to change 🥂it in horrific ways.

Along with the foggy towಞn, the teaser for Silent Hill f, shows Hinako being transported to shrines that echo the game's Japanese setting, diving into some mythology and history as well. From the trailer, we know that there will be some psychological elements at play throughout Hinako's journey as well. The teaser has a voice-over asking us if we "want to stay with our friends forever" before discussing how they may betray us and that it's up to us to decide their worth.

We're excited to see if there will be any more information on the story or Silent Hill f's monsters in the future. But for now, it's thrilling enough to see a Silent Hill entry not set in the United States for once. We'll keep you posted as more ne🅷ws heads our way!

Silent Hill f gameplay

Like every other Silent Hill game, Silent Hill f is a survival horror game that will have you solving puzzles and tryi✨ng not to die as gruesome monsters wander around the map, poise♔d to kill you if given the chance.

You will have to guide Hinako through the monster-infested town and will likely have to find certain keys or solve riddles to move through areas of the fogged-up map. Combat will also be a part of the upcoming game, as the Silent Hill f des𒆙cription (via ) mentions Hinako "fighting strange enemies and doing everything she can to survive."

We got our first official look at gameplay during the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:State of Play June 2025 showcase (which you can watch above). After speaking with a friend, we see how things suddenly take a dark and mysterious turn when monsters start to appear. We get to follow Hinako as she faces some incredibly unsettling, scarecrow-like figures that stalk towards he🌸r with unnatural twisting limbs.

In an official following the showcase, Konami producer Motoi Okamoto detailed the team's approach for Silent Hill f's feel and gameplay, revealing that the "puzzles are grounded🔯 in psychological anguish and suffering. These are deeply connected to the story by scriptwriter Ryukishi07, as well as elements of Japanese culture, such as scarecrows".

Okamoto also adds that the game "features unique combat", and the "encounters are as challenging as obstacles Hinako must overcome in life". With a heavier focus on mel🌼ee, which is definitely shown off in the trailer as Hinako fights off enemies in close-quarters combat with steel pipe-like weapons, Silent Hill f is also said to "be more ac𒊎tion-oriented compared to last year's Silent Hill 2.

For more, check out our selection of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best survival games to p🅷lay today while you wait for Silent Hill f to arrive.

Can you pre-order Silent Hill f?

Yes! Currently, pre-orders are live for physical copies of Silent Hill f on PS5 and Xbox Series X.

The game is currently up on Amazon and Best Buy's 🙈(for US readers) storefronts. At the time of writing, there is only one edition of the game available, and it costs $69.99/ £69.99.

No digital pre-order is live yet, so if you are a PC player, you'll have to wait a tad bit longer. The good news is, that you can still wishlist the game (via ) so that you can easily keep track of it when d𓄧igital pre-orders do eventually🔯 go live.

For more future releases, check out our guides on all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming PS5 games and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Xbox Series X games racing towards us.

Clearly the devs knew that you couldn't risk messing up one of the most iconic horror titles of all time, but the game's creative director, Mateusz Lenart, revealed at the Silent Hill 2: Remaking a Horror Icon — An Artistic Journey into Fear panel at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2025 that he initially thought there "might be no good way to create the remake for that game." Despite initial fears, the team started work and "quickly realized that we are dealing with the memory of the game, and if we want to succeed, we need to bring this memory back to the players, but not by copying what was there, but by reimagining those things for the modern era." This approach is similar to Capcom ditching the tank controls and fixed camera angles of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil 2 when creating the remake.

Lenart continued, "From the beginning, we knew that the story of this game is the most important aspect of it, and we didn't want to change it too much. At the same time, it was clear that it would be hard to present this story in the modern era without changes in mechanics or combat." While there were some changes to the story (most notably new endings), Bloober deꦅfinitely was more liberal with changing the game design. While it does follow the general formula of the original, Silent Hill 2 Remake had some big changes – with Eddie now residing in a new cinema area eating pink sludge instead of a bowling alley eating pizza at a time like this.

"One of our first decisions was to change the camera to a regular over-the-shoulder third-person perspective." While this may seem the🍨 obvious decision given it worked so well for Capcom, Bloober did acknowledge it has a downside: "we knew that with that change, we would lose a certain style from the original game." But in bringing the game to the modꦏern era, you can't really leave it unchanged, with Lenart saying, "at the same time we didn't want to bring back the feeling of the nostalgia just by using archaic solutions and mechanics" (although I'd argue block-pushing puzzles are a touch archaic themselves).

Working on a remake – especially of something that's so beloved – is undoubtedly daunting, given that any change often has a section of people very unhappy about it (just look at the reaction some fans had to Angela's innocuous redesign). But from Bloober's perspective, making those decisions is where things came into place, with Lenart saying, "Step by step we started to see the potential and places for improvement. Anꦅd because of that, fear slowly turned into excitement." And I'd say it turned out pretty well (even if I'm still partial to the 2001 original).

The developers of Palworld were also speaking at GDC this week, with their community manager revealing that the game's massive week one numbers 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:made them "feel sick."

In an impressively rare reputational 180, our pervasive sentiment toward the Polish studio has shifted dramatically. Now, six months since the game launched to strikingly rave reviews from critics and fans alike, Bloober Team has revealed that it's with the Silent Hill publisher, on an as-yet unconfirmed𒈔 Konami IP, and fans are absolutely hype𒁏d this time. But how did Bloober manage to pull off the redemption of a decade, and what does that mean for its future?

Layers of fear

If you're wondering what exactly Bloober Team did to ruffle so many feathers pre-Silent Hill, I'm here to walk you through it in broad strokes. Established in 2010, the studio experimented with a variety of genres before finding its stride in 2016's Layers of Fear. Horror seemed the perfect niche, with Layers of Fear channelling those Silent Hill P.T. vibes expertly. By the time a sequel launched in 2019, alongside movie-adjacent Blair Witch, Bloober's formula for creating atmospheric horror walking sims had been firmly established. This reputation went on to precede it, potentially casting doubt over Bloober's ability to even make a survival horror game like Silent Hill.

Specializing in a particular style of horror is not a crime against development꧟. At the same time, Bloober had branded itself with a pattern of predictability. It tried to escape that typecasting in 2021, branching out into third-person, fixed camera angle survival horror territory with The Medium.

Unfortunately, the studio swiftly fell foul of a very different trap that had been priming the whole time. Accusations soon poured in regarding Bloober Team's heavy-handed 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"trivialization of mental health" not only in The Medium, but Blair Witch too. This gave way to broader concerns over ꦺa perceived lack of sensitivity, specifically as it pertains to the experiences of real-life sufferers, that Bloober Team seemed unable to justify or amend going forward. Its unpredictable handling of complex themes paired with specializing in very niche horror meant that, when Konami announced it as the studio spearheading a remake of its most beloved and best Silent Hill game, the decision was a contentious one.

Those doubts persisted throughout the 3-year production process. Despite numerous assertions from both Konami and the developer itself th🌼at they would both be staying true and respectful to the 2001 original, every gameplay reveal seemed to spark further scrutiny from the community — whether for its combat, the outfit reworks, or the 🦄character models themselves.

Much as I try not to involve myself with negative discourse, I admit to being more than pleasantly surprised by my 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 hands-on preview experience as a result of being so prepared for the total opposite. The original is a game steeped in subtleties over garish shock factor, su⛦ggestible horrors outstripping the overt ones, and everything is a metaphor for something much darker and psychological – and Bloober Team hit the nail on the head. Shelving my lingering concerns over how it might handle the subject of trauma, considering Bloober's past fumbles in The Medium, I felt ready to send the studio an apology fruit basket. And I'm not the only one.

The tone of discourse flipped overnight, marking a new chapter for the beleaguered developer. Bloober Team had seemingly gone through all reputational shades in the eyes o🐷f the horror community, and had come out the other side, reforged. Maybe all the studio needed was to be taken by the hand and guided there fastidiously, with Team Silent and some solid source material as its shining North Star? That's m🔯y best bet, as it seems Konami and Team Silent have managed to get something out of Bloober Team that it might never have accessed on its own; not through lack of skill or trying, but through being given a chance for a future beyond its troubled past.

Bloober met that chance for redemption with open arms, and the result speaks for itself. It takes a big person to make amends for their misgivings, and in Bloober Team's case, Silent Hill 2's success has done wonders to show how the studio has learned and grown in the years since The Medi🌃um.

With so much yet to be confirmed, all we can do is marvel at how Bloober Team got here and give credit where it's due. There's no news yet on what the next Konamꦿi-B🦹loober team-up might be, though my hopes for a Silent Hill 3 remake are already fired up.

Could this be the beginning of a dedicated remake series much like Capcom's own Resident Evil remak🐓es, potentially setting a new standard for modern survival horror? Or could it be Konami's chance to dig up another gem from its past and pose a very new challenge to its Polish partners? Either way, I'm pleased to see Bloober Team living up to the potential it always had brewing – even if some of us need to own up to denying it was there from the start.

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But even with all of that grotesque body horror we're♊ about to subject ourselves to, Silent Hill's spooky town seri🌳es is nothing without a spooky town to wander in.

This time around – instead of Silent Hill, Maine – the game is set 🅰in the Japanese town Ebisugaoka, which is based on Kanayama, Gero in Japan's Gifu Prefecture.

During the Silent Hill Transmission stream, the game's proꦡducer Motoi Okamoto recounted that the Silent Hill f team went to the real-life town to scout it out and even record sounds of day-to-day life.

But it was actually the game's writer, Ryukishi07, who wanted to bring the game to Kanayama, saying, "I chose it as the setting because you can really feel its history." He then cites its "labyrinthine alleyways" and structures that have shifted "in response to bo♐ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚth its residents' lifestyles and the passage of time."

And it looks like Kana♊yama was the perfect place to set Silent Hill f, as – following the announcement – a fan of the series (spotted by ) to show off just how unsettling it can be.

The user says (translated by Twitter), "When I read an article about the release of the game Silent Hill F, I was surprised to hear that the scenario writer, Ryukishi07, said, 'This game is set in Kanayama Town, Gifu Prefecture,'" adding that the town is their grandmother's hometown, while posting photos of the labyrinthine streets. "When I looked at the game screen, my usual boring walking route had turne🃏d into 🅰a disturbing and bizarre landscape."

Although Kanayama is not quite as spooky as Silent Hill, the Twitter use🎃r did share some absolutely cursed photos of the town, saying, "Even though it's not the world of Silent Hill, come to Kanayama Town, where you can take some disturbing p♉hotos."

Later on, they of a candy store in Kanayama, which could be mistaken for a real Silent Hi๊ll landmark, with handprints covering the splashed white windows. So, if you re💙ally can't wait to get your hands on Silent Hill f, you could always catch a flight to explore the real Ebisugaoka.

Even after creating the beloved horror manga Higurashi When They Cry, Ryukishi07 has said he wouldn't mind if Silent Hill f "was the last thing I ever wrote."

Towards the end of the trailer, Hinako is shown in a distressed state, with a looming threat approaching her. But rather than run away scared (like I will be doing when playing the game), she decide🌜s to fight, and the nearest thing to her just so happens to be a steel pipe. So while we didn’t see any of the game’s combat, we can sleep soundly knowing we’ll be able to bludgeon monsters with the series' most iconic weapon.

While a pipe seems like a standard monster-bashing tool, it’s been the go-to melee weapon of Silent Hill protagonists since the series kicked off in 1999 when Harry Mason found one in an alleyway. Since then it’s appeared in pretty much every game in th🐽e series (eve⭕n the bad ones like Downpour), and Silent Hill f looks to be continuing the tradition. In fact, it seems likely that it’ll be Hinako’s main form of attack, as the game’s box art features her brandishing the blunt weapon. Time will tell if Silent Hill f will keep up the momentum of the Silent Hill 2 remake, but for now it’s looking promising.

In case you weren’t already scared enough, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill F’s ESRB rating promises the likes of "entrails and sinew displayed on serving platters" and "a character sawing off her own arm."

While lif💙ting the veil off of Silent Hill f, another third-person horror stuffed with psychological torment and twisted creatures, the developers also gave some insight into the project's inception.

"I believe the Silent Hill series was born out of blending the essence of Japanese horror with the essence of western horror," Okamoto said during the most recent . "However, as it was based in the West for the longest time, it fe🦄lt like the Japanese influence was fading. And so, this made us think, 'What if we go in the opposite direction and make it 100% Japanese horror?' And this game is the result. "

Of course, Silent Hill has predominantly been the work ofᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ Japanese developers making games set in America. But projects like Silent Hill 2 Remake and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories bucked that trend, and had western talent at the forefront. Silent Hill f seems like a course correction both in-game and ☂behind the scenes.

澳洲🧜幸运5开奖号码历史查✨询:Legendary composer Akira Yamaoka is also back for the game, after having worked on eve🍨ry mainline title, and he agreed that "there is a certain Japanese essence to the games, something that non-Japanese people can't replicate. As Japanese creators, there are certain creative choices and expressions that come more naturally to us." He continued to say that "for people outside Japan, this adds a sense of freshness and innovation to the games."

Elsewhere, the , while explaining he wanted the new game's protagonist to have much more agency. That doesn't mean she won't still be grappling with absolute horrors, though, as Silent Hill f's ESRB ꦓrating has absolute♌ly no chill.

Silent Hill f disclaimer is even making a horror buff like me shudder: "If you feel uncomfortable at any point while playing, please take a break"

Konami gave its upcoming Japan-set horror game the full blowout yesterday with a full trailer, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:some of the spookiest monsters in series hist♏ory, a character reveal, a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:deliciously scary disclaimer, and more.

Alongside a ton of other information, the publisher also revealed that Yamaoka is back after having written music for every single numbered Silent Hill game, a bunch of spin-offs, and countless other horror projects like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Slitterhead, the funky horror-action game from Silent Hill's OG creator. (Plus, the likes of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners... this man's resume is extensive.)

"In terms of music, the focus was not on using classical instruments to complement the depiction of the setting or to express the 'old time' of Japan, but rather on capturing the uncanny 'humidity' and 'scent' of Japan itse🐬lf," Yamaoka on social media. "That, to me, is what Sile🌱nt Hill truly embodies."

"A story set not in modern Japan, but in ancient Japan," he . "While its world may f꧂eel unfamiliar, it strangely resonates with me as a Japanese person. Within that world, my own soul was nurtured, and I strongly felt how it continues to influence my creative work today."

Yamaoka joins an A-list team that also happens to include 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:famed writer Ryukishi07, who proved he can do spooky and depressing in his beloved horror manga series When They Cry, alongside Dynasty Warriors composer Kensuke Inagꦓe and Silent Hill 2 Remake producer Motoi Oka🦩moto.

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Silent Hill f takes the series' foggy setting and co𒊎ntorted-limb monsters to a rural 1960s Japanese village this time, putting us in the shoes of teenager Shimizu Hinako, and the gameꩵ's website goes to great lengths to remind us that some things were very different back then.

"This game is set in Japan in the 1960s and contains depic꧑tions based on the customs and culture of that time," Konami's disclaimer . "These depictions do not reflect the opinions or valu🧜es of the developers or any individuals involved." Of course, some things in the world haven't simply gone away as the disclaimer also warns of "depictions of gender discrimination, child abuse, bullying, drug-induced hallucinations, torture, and graphic violence."

Things might get so grim, in fact, that Konami even says that it's💟 really really okay if you need to take a break now and then. Turning on all the lights and running to the kitchen for some emergency coffee wouldn't make you a wimp, honest, the publisher implies. "If you feel uncomfortable at any point while playing, please take a break from playing or speak to someone you trust," are the disclaimer's exact words.

In true Silent Hill form, it seems the real horrors aren't just coming from abject designs and spooky liminal spaces. Shimizu herself is apparently a "girl struggling under the pressure of expectations from her friends, family, and society" who "now hardly smiles." Taken together with the content warn☂ings up above, Silent Hill f will likely take a sterner look at some real-world issues, though hopefully they're𝐆 tackled with the same finesse as Silent Hill 2 and not Silent Hill: The Short Message.

There's no release date for ꧒Silent Hill f, but it'll come t🀅o PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S when it's ready.

Famed Higurashi When They Cry creator Ryukishi07 says he worked so hard on the Silent Hill f story that "I don't think I would mind if it was the last thing I ever wrote"

Whet✅her or not that's a good or bad thing is entirely subjective of course, but for me there is a limit to how dark a horror story can be before it becomes unpleasant to experience. It's a forgiving limit, with deeply upsetting games like The Last of Us 2 and Silent Hill 2 being some of my favorite ever, but it's there. As for Ryukishi07's work, let's just say the When They Cry series approaches that limit very closely.

Anyway, Ryukishi07 had this to say about writing the story for Silent Hill f: "To th🦹is day, I remember the feeling of my first encounter with the strangling and oppressive atmosphere of Silent Hill. It still deeply haunts me, and it still utterly fascinates me. It's an honor to find myself involved with a series I have so many memories with. I've po𒁏ured all my efforts into this story, so much so that I don't think I would mind if it was the last thing I ever wrote."

Ryukishi07 is an acclaimed horror writer no doubt, but his ♔body of work is a little inconsistent, so despite my fear that I'm going to leave Silent 𝓰Hill f severely depressed, it is definitely encouraging to hear him speak so passionately about the game.

Speaking of which, check out Silent Hill f's new trailer, which sadly doesn't include any gameplay but does boast some of the freakiest monsters I've ever seen.

I'll be honest, I was fully expecting to see j🅠ust a little bit of gameplay since it's been more than two years since the Silent Hill f announcement, and at first, I was a little disappointed, but after seeing some of the monsters that our new and unfortunate protagonist Hinako will have to contend with, I'm overall pretty satisfied with today's trailer. It's also cool seeing more of Ebisugaoka, the fictional 1960s-era Japanese town that's the main setting of the game.

🔴You can see the 𒁏new trailer for yourself right here:

Silent Hill f is the next mainline install🍌ment in the beloved survival horror series. It's been a little more than two years since it was announced, and until now, we hadn't seen or heard anything about it since that announcement. The game tells a completely new story seemingly unconnected to the other games in the series, and starring brand new characters. The story's being written by Ryukishi07, the acclaimed horror artist and writing savant behind the When They Cry manga and anime series, which includes Higurashi When They Cry, Umineko When They Cry, and Ciconia When They Cry.

You can now. It's also coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and the Epic Games Store. There's sti💧ll no release dat🅺e.

While we wait for more info on Silent Hill f, it's never a bad time to play something from our round-up of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best horror games available now.

It's been a little more than two years since Konami revealed Silent Hill F, the next mainline installment in the beloved survival horror series, and we haven't heard a peep out of the studio since. In-between then and now, we've seen the release of the free, bite-sized, and ultimately underwhelming 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill: The Short Message, as well as the absolutely wonderful 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 Remake. Now, we're finally about to learn more about the broaꦯder direction Konami is taking the mainline seri𝕴es.

In a brief post on , Konami revealed that a new Silent Hill Transmission stream is airing March 13 at 3pm PDT and that it'll "uncover 🦄SILENT HILL f." That sounds to me like the game is getting a full-blown reveal trailer, possibly with some gameplay, but the wording is ambiguous. There's no word on how long the stream will last, but Konami says to "watch this space" for the streaming link.

Silent Hill F is billed as "an entirely new story" set in 1960s Japan, and there's reason to be excited for it. It's being written by acclaimed visual novelist Ryukishi07, a horror artist and writing savant best known as creator of the When They Cry manga and anime series, which includes Higurashi When They Cry, Umineko When They Cry, and Ciconia When They Cry. The game is being directed by🥂 Al Yang, creative director at NeoBards Entertainment

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The of Bloober's continued partnership with Konami arrived earlier today, coming four months after the Silent Hill 2 remake's long-awaited release. According to the Polish studio, the decision to keep collaborating was sparked by "trust built upon the success of Silent Hill 2," with a new agreement betwꦜeen the two companies in place now for another joint project. There's no telling what that project is just yet, however.

Bloober CEO Piotr Babieno teases something "truly s𓆏pecial" in the future, though, but first looks back at the team's partnership on Silent Hill 2. "Our collaboration with Konami has been incredibly fruitful, and the success of Silent Hill 2 speaks for itself," he writes. "By sharing knowledge and experience, we have been able to create high-quality production together." The lead then looks ahead to the studios' comi🅷ng work.

"Of course, we can't reveal too many details at this time, but we are confident that fans will be just as excited about our collaboration as we are," s🌞tates Babieno. "We can't wait to share something truly special with players when the time is right." As a fan of the Silent Hill 2 remake myself, this feels like massive news – after all, there are still a few other entries in the legendary horror series without any remasters or revamps.

Bloober explained in the past that it didn't start with the OG Silent Hill because "the franchise is connected to Konami's plans" – but there's no way of knowing whether that means the first game will never be remade or if Bloober is now a part of those cryptic "plans" from Konami. I won't hold my breath until the companies share more about their mysterious new project, but the continued collaboration is an exciting development, to♎ say the least.

The Silent Hill 2 Remake director has pitched a Lord of the Rings horror game, and suddenly I'm hunched over growling 'my precious' at the thought of it

You'd be forgiven if you'd forgotten all about Silent Hill f. The mysterious game – which is being written by the creator of the Higurashi When They Cry visual novel series, Ryukishi07 – is set in 1960s Japan, but after its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:reveal in October 2022, news has been (fittingly) silent. With n𒁏o rough release window or even any known release platforms, Silent Hill f has remained an enigma, but its new rating seems to prove it's still alive and kicking.

As , Silent Hill f was last month. A list published by the content rating board showing December's ratings reveals that the rating was applied for on December 4, before being issued on December 12. As for the rating itself, Google and DeepL translations suggest that the game isn't suitable for children, which, uh, is to be expected given the se൩ries' history. 

While the rating doesn't give much away, the fact that it's being rated at all could suggest that it'sꦓ not a massive way away from being released, but that remains to be seen. Silent Hill f isn't the only interesting nam𝕴e in the ratings list, of course, with Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 applied for a bit later in the month, and its rating (which appears to be the same as Silent Hill f's) issued on December 26.

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is in a slightly different boat to Silent Hill f, simply since more information about it was already available, including the fact that it's set to be released in the first half of this year. It was actually supposed to launch sooner, but has been hit with multiple delays – the latest pushed it back from its planned fall 2024 release window. Needless to say, the action RPG getting a rating is more of an expectation at this point than a complete surprise, but it's still a promising s🏅ign for the game – hopefully we'll find out soon when exactly we can get our hands on it.

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Right now, Silent Hill 2 is , as a 17% discount has slashed $69.99 MSRP. In the grand scheme of things, $10 off might not seem like a great 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Black Friday PS5 deals out there. However, it's worth remembering thi📖s horror remak🥀e has only been on shelves for little over a month, so any discount at all is a big deal. While Woot is an Amazon-owned site, the game is currently just , making this deal even more lucrative for horror game fans.

Physical PS5 games slowly drop in price all the time, so you could wait a little longer before picking up Silent Hill 2. H🍎owever, that could take some time. Tekken 8, which landed on the console at the start of the year, didn't see its first major price drop until four months later. Instead of waiting, you can always pick up Silent Hill 2 at Woot while stocks last, so you don't experience the horrors of missing out on this early Black Friday deal.

Should you buy Silent Hill 2 (2024)?

The Halloween season may be over, but it's always a great time to have some spooky fun on the PS5. Especially if that fun is a remake one of the greatest horror experiences you can experience in video game form. The original game was released 23 years ago, much to the dismay of my pensioner-gamer mindset. As of typing, my original PS2 copy is still amongst my PlayStation game library, sitting snugly between Rule of Rose and my other horror games that are likely worth more than every piece of Sony hardware I own.

While the original game still holds up well two decades later, not all of us have the means to drag out a PS2. (Or want to experience the comic sans delights of the PS3 remaster) - which is where Blooper Team's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 comes in. The PS5 game takes the unnerving psychological horrors of James Sunderland's foggy adventures searching for his wife Mary and transforms it for a new generation of fans. Everything from the creepy nurse monsters, the red pyramid thing, the decaying and maze-like Wood Side Apartments, and the dog ending have returned.

With the holidays coming up, you may be in the mood for something a lot more festive and a lot les🐽s terrifying. However, if any of your loved ones grew up with the Silent Hill franchise, this would make for one ideal gift for the holidays especially if you can save $10 off. Sadly, I cannot sing the praises of the remake myself as even I asked for it as a gift this year. I just hope Santa's also been told about its current di𒁃scount on Woot.

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Over on Reddit, user Dale Robinson has worked out the true meaning behind the 'Strange Photos' collectibles introduced in the remake. There are 26 in total, and all of them include a bit of writing alongside the images themselves. It turns out that if you look at each picture hard enough, you'll see that there's a significant number of something visible – in the first photo, there are six open windows, while in the sixth one, there are four holes in the photo itself. If you then use this number for each picture to count along the letters on their accompanying writing, you'll end up with a message when looking at them in order🍌 – 'YOUVE BEEN HERE FOR TWO DECADES.'

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Solving this was seriously impressive work, and it's not taken long for Bloober Team creative director and lead game designer Mateusz Lenart to weigh in and confirm that this is the exact message that the devs had hidden. "I knew it wouldn't stay hidden for long! (There was a theory in our company that the puzzle might be too hard)," . "I really wanted to make it subtl🍃e when I was painting those photos... I think the timing couldn't be better for you to solve it. Congratulations!"

So then, wha♑t does this all mean? It'd be compelling evidence to support the time loop theory – the idea that protagonist James Sunderland is trapped, being endlessly tormented by Silent Hill's horrors. As @AestheticGamer1 on Twitter mentions, this was before the release of the remake thanks to other clues, including original Silent Hill 2 art director Masahiro Ito previously proclaiming that

But does this mean that the theory is confirmed? Apparently not. Responding to one fan concluding that "the loop theory is canon," Lenart simply says, For some, this might be a relief, since – "I have never liked the loop theory. It feels so cheap," one . Instead, perhaps it could be a message for the players, who've also "been here for two decades" since the original game released over 20 years ago. Bloober Team clearly isn't going to say either way, but regardless, it's very cool that the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new game's puzzle has been solved.

Be sure to check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 Remake review to find out if the horror classic is worth returning to.

Once a POW camp for Civil War soldiers, then a correctional facility with a habit for executions and disposing of corpses in deep holes, Toluca is saturated with bad memories. Fittingly for the spooky season – and faithfully to Team Silent's original rendition – Toluca Prison is the point at which Silent Hill's dimensional spectrum ventures towards the spectral, with Bloober retaining the little touches that made the pr🐼ison feel haunted (by forces other than James' own guilt and horniness, that is). Long-dead prisoners whisper in clammy cells, invisible horses can be heard trotting to take prisoners to the gallows, and a scream from beyond the grave – a shameless jump-scare made all the more effective by the fact that the game contains so few of them – await those descend into Toluca.

Hell in a cell

Bloober's rendition also takes a few departures from the design of the original Silent Hill 2, which used a tight, top-down perspective that made it hard to see the scuttlers and other creatures coming your way. With the limited control that ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚwe had over the ca𒈔mera in Silent Hill 2, we were often at the mercy of Team Silent's creative cinematography, which it deftly exploited to claustrophobic effect. Even now, there's definitely some weight to the contention that a fully controllable all-angles camera is an aspect of modern game design that's anathema to effective horror. To counter this, Bloober exploited an aspect of modern game design that was notably lacking back in the days of the original: verticality.

Instead of looking downwards in Silent Hill 2 Remake's Toluca, your attention is turned upward💃s this time. At first you just hear something moving up above you, but when you look up, you see nothing but dim lights dangling by cords that disappear into the darkness. As you try to get your bearings while radio static signals threats you can't yet see, you get some respite when you find a lever that switches on all the lights in the cell block. But that relief is short-lived when you realize that these lights are on a timer, which audibly ticks down faster and faster until you are plunged into near-total darkness once more. In the end, the precious seconds I'd spend pulling the lever, compounded by that dreaded countdown, would slather on so much tension that I'd opt to just sprint through the darkness rather than ﷺburden myself with the additional stressors.

Eventually, maybe as the ticking lights start to sputter, you see them: the𒁏 deadly new threats that have been 🅺stalking you. They are in fact a new form of an existing enemy, the Mannequin – four prosthetic legs adjoined by a torso, essentially. Utilized up to this point in the game as hidey-seeky purveyors of jump-scares tottering around on two gainly legs, Toluca gives the Mannequins a horrifying refresh just as their original form might have started to grow overly familiar. This variant scurries along walls and ceilings on all fours, like cockroaches skittering in and out of ceiling vents in a damp motel room, before leaping at you from all angles.

Once this insectile new form of the Mannequin catches your scent, it's as if it sends a signal to the others, because they all seem to descend on you at once. Within moments, you're blasting them off the walls with your s♐hotgun while straight-jacketed Lying Figures spit venom at you from their cells. In these moments, Silent Hill 2 Remake's horror veers into Resident Evil 4 territory, as you're besieged from all sides and – for the first time in the game – are anxiously watching your ammo supplies dwindle. This gear-shift towards a noisier, swarming kind of horror is a creative liberty on Bloober's part, but it works precisely because it's an outlier to the rest of the experience. It also fits thematically with a setting that's steeped in violence, as you try to traverse what f꧟eels like an otherworldly prison riot. You can't possibly quell it, you can only hope to survive it.

Even in the quieter moments wading through Toluca, the protracted industrial notes of Akira Yamaoka's score reverberate through and grind down your psyche (you know you're in a bad place where the only relief from the barrage of noise and monsters comes by standing in a pitch-black execution yard). At one point, you pick up a paranoid note from one of the prisoners claiming that another p🐠risoner can get to him through the walls. When you get to this prisoner's cell, you find that they've created a hole in the wall through which to escape, and as you squeeze yourself through this escape route, that note about the prisoner stalking others through the walls lingers🌳 in your mind.

Maybe Toluca is a reflection of James' repressed conscience reaching breaking point, tearing to get out, or maybe there really is some kind of paranormal activity here. The beauty of Bloober's remake is that it retains the mystery surrounding this forsaken place, while adding a few astute elements that elevate it into one of the most stress-inducing horror sequences you (or James Sunder🔯land) could imagine.

Silent Hill 2 and Resident Evil 2's introductory sequences showcase two different approaches to the survival horror remake, and both of them are valid

Pyramid Head began life as hellish penance personified. A walking manifestation of someone's guilt, ready to serve punishment to those who crave it the most with eery groans 𒁃and a rusted cleaver. But the big boss has since become the closest thing Silent Hill has to a series mascot, so publisher Konami can thank 1990's Jacob's Ladder for its cash cow.

Over on social media, original Silent Hill 2 artist Masahiro Ito once again gushed over the cult classic. "If I had not seen a teaser of that on my TV, I would never have gone to watch the film, never have made the other world schooಌl in SH1, or never have come up with the background ꦑof Pyramid Head," he tweeted. "Goose bumps!"

Jacob's Ladder might not be the most common cultural touchstone - it was barely a success at first - but it's pretty easy to connect the dots between the two projects. Jacob's Ladder follows a Vietnam war veteran who becomes haunted by otherworldly apparitions, tentacled monsters, and alternate realities that blur the line between what's real and what's just a manifestation of Jacob's psyche. Very Silent🐼 Hill-y. 

When it comes to Pyramid Head in particular, Ito that a very specific lꦯine in the film gave him the idea to create a physical representation of guilt and judgement. "The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won✅'t let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you. They're freeing your soul," is the line, which is itself a quote from German philosopher Master Eckhart.

On the topic of influences, Ito also said that Silent Hill’s Fukuro Lady was actually inspired by a BDSM magazine. 

Ito played a huge part in the creation of the early Silent Hill games, having gone from a monster designer in the first game to the art director for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 and 3. Now, he's given a bit more insight into the design ofܫ one of the female character models he created, which the models for Silent Hill 2's Maria, Mary, Angela and the Bubble Head Nurse were all based on. The original one eventually became known as Fukuro Lady, and was featured in the short film Fukuro alongside Pyramid Head and other S🐭ilent Hill 2 monsters. 

In this original model, which shows her in a red dress and heels with her sleek dark hair styled as a bob, it'd be totally understandable if you thought Ito might have taken inspiration from a certain Tekken character, Anna Williams, when it came to her design. However, en♔ough people have clearly had that exact same thought that Ito wants to clear things up once and for all. Sure, the two might look similar, but Fukuro Lady's actual inspiration was very different. 

"Some have replied [saying that] this lady reminds them of Anna Williams from Tekken and come to think of it, maybe they are right," Ito begins. "But the inspiration was a photo 🔜picture from a BDSM magazine that I used to read."

Not quite from a fighting game series, then. The magazine in question wasn't Ito's only influence, though, as he also notes that her hair was based on "Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction," and yeah, you can definitely see that when you compare t𝄹hem side by side. 

Even if Fukuro Lady didn't make it into Silent Hill 2 as a full-fledged enemy, Ito says the graphic test model he made for her was partially used in Silent Hill 3. In the thread, : "The face of the nurse in SH3 was from 🐲that PS2 graphic test model." The more you know.

For more games like Silent Hill 2, be sure to check out our roundup of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best horror games.

Ito was art director on Team Silent and served as creature designer for Silent Hill, art director on Silent Hill 2 - a role in which he came up with the iconic Pyramid Head monster - and art director on Silent Hill 3. He also played an active part in the development of the recently released and highly acclaimed 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 Remake.

According to Ito, in all𒊎 🌄the time spent studying art and then creating some of the most nightmare-inducing monsters the gaming medium has ever produced, he never once had a girlfriend.

"As a side note, all the time I was attending my art university or was developing Silent Hill 1/2/3 & a canceꦐlled title, I never had any girlfriends," Ito offered up on Twitter. "Coz I had no time for it."

Frankly, the fact that Ito made this substantial sacrifice for the sake of straight-up defining PS1 and PS2 horror is iconic and makes him even more of a legend than he already was. Ito is fairly private about his personal life, but he's very outspoken when it comes to his work. He recently affirmed his GOAT status when he took Silent Hill weirdos to task over their criticism of some of the character models in Silent Hill 2 Remake, saying⛦, "I really wish they w﷽ere not children but adults".

Ito originally didn't want the Silent Hill 2 Remake to happen, but decided to cooperate to "make sure the core was preserved".

That's why Capcom took a gamble when it decided to remake its most famous game ever. Thankfully, when Resident Evil 2 Remake landed in 2019, it pretty much wrote the book on how to remake one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best survival horror games of all time. It's all about 🌃a fine b🐷alance of innovation, homage, and evolution – and with Silent Hill 2 Remake now launching to similar acclaim, it demonstrates how both Konami and Capcom went about the act in two different ways. You don't even need to play the games in full to see what I'm talking about. The evidence can be found in the first half hour of each.

Worlds apart

Resident Evil 2 is flat-out iconic. Leon Kennedy and Cl♍aire Redfield's first foray onto our consoles was atmospheric and creepy enough back in 1998, building the air of suspense and horror that went on to edify its place among the survival horror greats. But in its 2019 remake, Capcom went the extra mile to pad the experience out further still by adding something very important: context. Both games begin, more or less, with a man in a truck. The original sees the trucker driving alone while🍸 grumbling to no one in particular, staunching a wound and complaining about the nasty bite he just received. But in the remake, we get to see how this man got bitten in the first place.

A conversation on a radio talk show about a man getting attacked himself is interspersed with the trucker chowing down a grey-tinged hamburger, foreshadowing the zombie-infested streets of Raccoon City before we even see them. When he accidentally runs over one of said zombies and gets out of the car to help her, his fate is sealed. Even tiny mไoments like these feel important to Resident Evil 2 Remake. Brave, even, considering that Capcom was reworking the most famous Resi game ever, showing no qualms about expanding on its work at the same time. Capcom wanted to take time setting the scene, giving us some more exposition before introducing Leon, and it absolutely pays off.

The effect is that Resident Evil 2 Remake doesn't come across like a beat-for-beat copy of the original game, but an honest move to evolve it. We see this commitment to subtle yet meaningful changes again in Leon's introduction. Both games see him pulling up to an abandoned gas station – in his civvies in the remake, rather than already kitted out in his RCPD uniform. Upon hearing a strange noise, though, the 2019 version has Leon venture inside to investigate. Not only does this open up more of the world surrounding Raccoon City for the player to examine, giving us a greater understanding of its inhabitants as well as a richer sense of place, but it teaches us more about our playable character. Leon is a courageous rookie cop, sure, but his frequent expletive cries also prove him absolutely terrified – though Capcom makes sure to signpost that he's still the same flashy bastard we know and love from the original, as he orders Claire to "get down" before shooting the lunging zombie🥂 behind her square between the eyes. All of this happens✤ in the first ten minutes of Leon's path A variant, and already, it's doing everything a remake should: innovating with something new, evolving what's already there, and paying homage to the brilliance that came before.

Deja-view from the bridge

Silent Hill 2, on the other hand, feels a little more he🍌sitant. Where Resident Evil 2 Remake allows for moments of complete newness, reframing and expanding upon its narrative to add as well as recreate, developer Bloober Team goes easy on the newness in the name of accuracy. Aside from some clever Easter eggs, Silent Hill 2 is such a faithful remake that i💖t shies away from adding almost any new context clues or narrative threads to its mysterious world, preferring instead to flesh out existing details lifted from the 2001 original and translating them to Capcom's third-person action perspective as popularized by the RE2 Remake. 

Again, we see as much in Silent Hill 2's opening salvo. From the grimy public bathroom to the letter from Mary, Bloober's commitment to source text loyalty has been acknowledged and appreciated by ardent fans. Everything about the first half hour plays out almost identically to the original, with the exception of some new puzzles and areas of exploration. While these moments do help situate the game,  giving the town distinct a personality as we uncover more of its nooks and crannies, they feel more decorative than active. I don't feel I understand James any better than I did before. I don't feel the world of Silent Hill 2 has changed or evolved since 2001. Nothing is ostensibly new to me in Silent Hill 2 Remake, and if that level of content preservation was kinꦜd of the whole point,ꦏ then Bloober smashed it out the park

I understand the hesitation on Bloober and Konami's side when it comes to rejigging anything from the original. The hair-trigger sensitivities of Silent Hill 2's passionate fanbase makes touching anything at all a bit of a risk. You only need to look at the discourse surrounding Mary's wardrobe change and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Angela's character model to see how much this game means to its fans, and there's something refreshing about how🌜 both Konami and Bloober Team respect them so much. 

Silent Hill 2 is a remake in its purest form, down to a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:shot-for-shot story trailer. It's the ultimate homage to its source material, so much so that it purposely sidesteps the need to evolve or innovate. On ඣthe other hand, Resident Evilౠ 2 Remake ambitiously pushes all three factors for a very different mix. Neither is the right or wrong way to concoct a survival horror remake, necessarily, but it never ceases to fascinate me how malleable the horror genre can be – especially when it comes to reworking the greats. 

There's plenty more where Silent Hill 2 came from on our list of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming horror games to watch for this year and beyond.

This was, of course, inevitable. The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Resident Evil 2 Remake mods over the years include everything from the infamous Thomas the Tank Mr. X to the manifestation of the fabled Resident Evi🐟l 💖2 Akuma Mode after 26 years. It's only fair that Silent𝕴 Hill 2 Remake gets the same treatment, although we've yet to reach t♚he levels of absurdity we inevitably will.

My favorite 'character' mods so f﷽ar include one that , another that lets you play as Resident Evil 4 Remake hero Leon Kennedy, and another that swaps James Sutherland for 2B from Nier Automata. We've seen these exact mods in other game♑s, including Resident Evil 2 Remake, but hey, they're classics for a reason, right?

Where do we go from here? Well, Thomas the Tank as Pyramid Head seems like a safe bet, and while we're on the topic of GTA, Big Smoke too. We have a long road ahead ༺folks, and it's time to buckle up.

One of the most surreal things I saw today is the Silent Hill 2 Remake mod that clears out the game's signature fog for a weirdly sunny scene.

What originally began as a technical limitation on the OG PlayStation turned into an instantly iconic artistic choice as Silent Hill's oppressive, sometimes blinding fog is almost as recognizably 'Silent Hill' as Pyramid Head, bless his pointy heart. Was that groaning sound the wind or the growl of a nearby monster? Was that a shadow in the distance or the concrete floor blurred by nature? Every new step you take in Silent Hill is a step into the terrifying unknown, but modders have already pacified th෴e remake. 

Two NexusMods mods called and have made the spooky town fogless, revealing what looks lik༺e a standard UK high street hiding underneath - truly the stuff of nightmares. The latter cheekily pokes fun at Konami's other re-release, as its description says the mod "makes the game more faithful to the HD collection," which also came under fire for lifting the fog effect. (Thanks, .)

Online screenshots of the fogless town haven't revealed anything too unexpected yet, expect for the fact that Bloober Team's remake is shockingly detailed beneath all that murkiness. Dirty walls, reflective puddles, and tܫhe general griminess of everything make Fogless Silent Hill 2 a still-pretty-handsome game - even though I definitely wouldn't recommend playing it this way for the first time. 

Another Simple Freecam mod also revealed other fun little details in the remade game as players were able to see out-of-bounds areas. The widely-memed Comic Sans Silent Hill 2 sign from the HD Collection is hiding in a ditch somewhere, while there's another, more ominous Easter Egg buried in the backseat of James' car - look away now if you’re sensitive to spoilers!

Many Silent Hill fans assumed tha𒆙t James had bought Mary's body with him in his car trunk - a fan theory that was by series art director Masahiro Ito last year, who confirmed her corpse was actu🍰ally hidden in the backseat. Wanna take a wild guess at what the Freecam mod reveals in James' remade backseat? A floral blanket covering what is likely a body, as at least one player.

Going into the game full fog? Get some help by finding all weapons in Silent Hill 2 Remake and then check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:beginner’s tips and tricks guide. 

The exact 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 remake release time varies depending on region, but for most folks it lands on Tuesday, October 8, which means the vast majority of fans haven't had time to actually play the game yet. However, reviews have been largely very positive, with Bloober Team's remake currently boasting a more than respectable 87 review score. Our own 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 Remake review is a little lower than most at 3.5/5 stars, but that's still a pretty🃏 solid score.

Point is: most people who have played Silent Hill 2 Remake seem to be pretty happy with it, and judging from these early impressions it seems to be an extraordinarily faithful retelling, but with a series and entry as beloved as this one, a remake will always have its critics. And unfortunately, am🐼ong those critics is a small but vocal group of people who are upset because they think a character from the original game has been made "ugly" in the remake. Frankly, I don't want to dignify these criticisms by discussing them any further.

Ito, who created the iconic Pyramid Head villain as monster designeღr on the original Silent Hill, who was art director on Silent Hill 2, and who was creature designer on the remake, took to Twitter to voice his frustrations with these fans in particular.

"Don't just take what people on the internet say at꧂ face value, but see for yourself and verify the facts before you say anything," Ito said in a machine-translated tweet (thanks, ). "If you're an adult, you should stop saying disrespectful things to the actors who played them, like calling them 'ugly.'"

A few days after that tweet, Ito followed up with an eve🌟n stronger rebuke, this time written in English, saying he wished those fans "were not children but adults." Ito has since deleted that one tweet, but he's yet to scrub another that revealed he's since blocked all of the accounts blaming him for their remake woes.

"This is NOT the account to take it out on," reads a tweet from October 7. "I decid🎃ed to 📖block all of them who did it to me IMMEDIATELY from now on."

I'd usually advise not just game developers, but everyone else,💜 to block disrespectful people before even engaging with them, but I also can't blame Ito for speaking up in this case🎃. 

Either way, the OG Silent Hill 2 director is "very happy" about the remake: "Whether it's good or bad doesn't affect the original."

As , it turns out that in the remake, players can attempt to turn away from the foreboding setting altogether, and make protagonist James Sunderland walk back up the road in a desperate attempt to leave before he's faced with the horrors within. Unfortunately, there's no Far Cry 4-style secret ending that lets you roll credits within the opening minutes of the game, as you'll just be greeted by an invisible wall to halt 𒐪your escape. That doesn't mean you're not rewarded for trying, though.

Reaching this point of no return will give you a shiny achievement called "No Turning Back Now" – just to rub it in for anyone feeling particularly scared of what's to come that they're in it for the long haul (unless they just turn the game off, of course). So, if you're trying to collect every achievement or trophy possible, make sure you're not too quick to rush ﷺinto the action, and 🅘get that little bit of backtracking in before you dive into things. 

At GamesRadar+, Leon gave Bloober Team's take on the horror classic three and a half stars out of five in his 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 review, praising its atmosphere and scares, but noting that it "stays too close to the source material," and "shies away from improvements" that could have enhanced one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Silent Hill games. 

OG Silent Hill 2 director is "very happy" about the remake: "Whether it's good or bad doesn't affect the original."

Masashi Tsuboyama led the original game with the sadly-shuttered Team Silent all the way back in 2001, and he's now chimed in on what remakers Bloobe🃏r Team have achieved in 2024.

"I think the value of the remake is that a new generation can play it" Tsuboyama tweeted earlier this week right as glowing澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: Silent Hill 2 Remake reviews began to flood the internet. "As a creator, I'm very happy about it. It's been 23 years! Even if you don&ꦕapos;t know the original, you can just enjoy the remake as it is. Whether it's good or bad doesn't affect the original."

Having said that, Tsuboyama then delved into his mostly positive impressions of the horror revival. He called most of the fluffy modern additions - 4k resolutions, 'photorealistic&𓃲apos; environments, and pre-order cosmetics - "mediocre," which isn't too surprising since Silent Hill 2 is a game that's foggy and murky by design. And, also, a massive pink rabbit mask? "Who is this promotion going to appeal to?"

The OG director had much kinder praise for everything else in the remake, though. "The change in playable camera has a significant impact on many aspects, combat, level design, art creation, etc," he explained. "While the impact on the story may be relatively small, it brings a big change to the playfeel of the game." He also says he's "not satisfied with the playable camera from 23 years ago" since it was a tech "limit" rather than intentional design. "The over-the-shoulder view definitely adds to the sense of realism. In other 💛words, it makes me want to try playing the even more immersive remake of Silent Hill 2!"

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Silent Hill 2 Remake is set to release on Tuesday, October 8, and reviews are by and large indicative of a remake that stays faithful to the 2001 classic while modernizing elements to be approachable in 2024. GamesRadar+'s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 Remake review call൩ed it "an atmospheric and rewarding horror game up there with the Resident Evil remakꦍes for reinventing a classic," awarding the remake 3.5/5 stars.

release times for Silent Hill 2 Remake across regions and platforms, which means it's time to set a reminder for October 8. Here's exactly when you'll be able 🌠to play the game based on where you live and your preferred platform:

Silent Hill 2 Remake release time:

Los Angeles
PS5: 9pm PDT October 7
Steam: 9pm PDT October 7

New York
PS5: 12am EDT October 8
Steam: 12am EDT October 8

London
PS5: 12am BST October 8
Steam: 5am BST October 8

Paris
PS5: 12am CEST October 8
Steam: 6am CEST October 8

Sao Paulo
PS5: 12am GMT - 3 October 8
Steam: 1am GMT - 3 October 8

Istanbul
PS5: 12am GMT + 3 October 8
Steam: 7am GMT + 3 October 8

Riyadh
PS5: 12am GMT + 3 October 8
Steam: 7am GMT + 3 October 8

Hong Kong
PS5: 12am HKT October 8
Steam: 12pm HKT October 8

Sydney
PS5: 12am AEST October 8
Steam: 3pm AEST October 8

Tokyo
PS5: 12am JST October 8
Steam: 1pm JST October 8

It's also worth noting that if you pre-ordered the Digital Deluxe Edition, you can jump into the game 48 hours earlier than the above listed times. And now that you have everything you need to play the Silent Hill 2 Remake as soon as you possibly can, you can probably squeeze in a pl🥃aythrough of the original.

There's a reason this classic ranks so high on our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best horror games ever made.

In a new post from the official Bloober Team Twitter account, a video shows ♏one of the game's many puzzles in action, with the caption reading: "In #SILENTHILL2, we’ve strived to recreate the game's iconic puzzles, while also infusing some of them with fresh ideas and adding new challenges that tie into the game's story."

Bloober Team also confirmed that the remake will have three di𒁏fferent difficulty options for all of the puzzles in the ga🌟me, which is a feature carried over from the original.

There's been an immense amount of pressure on Bloober Team to deliver a satisfying remake of one of the most iconic horror games of all time. Most of the horror community's trepidation is due to Bloober Team not being the original developer of the game, and also not necessarily having any one game fans can point to as proof of its ability to do the Silent Hill name justice. That's not to say it doesn't have any solid games - Iꦰ personally really enjoyed The Medium - it's just that it's in the unenviable position of being compared to Silent Hill 2 of all games.

All that said, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:hands-on previews from August were almost unanimously positive and really shifted 🌊the tone and conversation around the remake considerably. The remake hits PS5 and PC on October 8.

With only days to wait until it releases, spoilers are currently the scariest thing about Silent Hill 2 Remake as early copies are breaking the street date and hours of gameplay is surfacing online.

While those who pre-order Silent Hill 2's digital deluxe edꦗition can expect to dive into the freshly remade horror classic two days before its general October 8 release date, players definitely weren't meant to be able to get into it quite this early. However, posts across social media tell a different story, with some claiming to have been sent physical copies days before they were supposed to.

Needless to say, anyone who wants to head into the remake totally blind might want to be careful when looking at the likes of Reddit and Twitter as more footage is starting to be shared around. In fact, over the last day, hours of gameplay have been streamed on YouTube. Of course, this might bother some more than others – we're looking at a remake of a 23-year-old game, after all, so some will already know its plot very well. That's not the case for everyone, though, as Bloober Team's revival of it will undoubtedly pull i🎉n horror fans who have never experienced the original. 

As for what everyone can expect from the horror remake when it (properly) launches this month, developer Bloober Team has confirmed that we'll be able to disable all UI elements for "the most immersive way to play," allowing us to rely on🅷 visual and audio cues to guide our way. There's also a "90s filter," complete with screen adjustments, color correction, and a grain effect to make the remake regain a bit more of its classic feel (even if the original didn't actually release in the 90s in the first place). 

We'll just have to wait and see if the 2024 version has what it takes to become one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Silent Hill games, but we were pleasantly surprised in our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 remake preview.

Speaking to , Bloober Team's vice president and chief financial officer Kar⛎olina Nowak acknowledges that PS5 will probably be the remake's largest sales base since the original 2001 classic was released exclusively on the PS2. However, the Layers of Fear studio is well 𝐆acquainted with developing for PCs and has slightly nudged its publishing partner in that direction. 

"We encouraged our partner Konami to take a closer look at about PC," Nowak says
(based on machine l♔earning translations). "We were fans of the idea of a PC release. The Steam version has attracted a lot of interest and we are confident that in addition to the PlayStation launch (for which the game was originally announced), will also be a success."

If you're looking for a similar case study, Capcom found huge success launching its fellow old-head horror series Resident Evil on every platform, all at once, in recent years. So, it's no surprise to see other Japanese publishers like Square E꧃nix and now Konami follow suit with a multiplatform approach - although, the Silent Hill 2 remake is skipping Xbox𓆏 consoles until at least next year because Sony seemingly paid to block that from happening. 

Silent Hill 2's remake comes out on October 8, and it might kick start an entire revival for the series, just as the Resident Evil 2 remake did upon its arrival. Nowan explained that both Konami and Bloober are chuffed𒁃 about their collaboration, and all signs point to the companies working together again. "It can be expected that this is not the end of the adventure with Konami," the CFO said.

Silent Hill 2 remakers didn’t start with the OG Silent Hill because “the franchise is connected to Konami’s plans.” 

...Which released in 2001. I'm giving the Bloober goobers a pass on this since the first Silent Hill game came out in 1999 and thus just barely makes the cut, but I also couldn't not point out the iroꦦny. But yes, there w🐟ill be a '90s-inspired filter with "grain effect, color correction and screen adjustments to complete the old-school experience."

The original Silent Hill 2 famously had zero on-screen UI during gameplay sequences, not even a health bar, which made getting lost an essential part of the experience. However, if you decide to disable the HUD in Silent Hill 2 Remake, yജou'll then start seeing and hearing visual and audio cues to let you know what you're supposed to be doing. For example, the main character James will glance toward areas of interest and display different animations and facial expressions when he's wounded, presumably to let you know you should heal up.

It's wild how quickly and effectively Bloober Team has flipped the whole conversation around Sile🧸nt Hill 2 Remake on its head. Since its announcement in 2022, there's been widespread concern in the horror community about the studio's ability to do justice to such a beloved IP and title, but as soon as hands-on previews started appearing a couplꦍe of weeks ago, there was a seismic and positive shift in confidence around the project.

Our own 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Sꦗilent Hill 2 Remake han✨ds-on preview is one of many expressing optimism, even if it is 🎐a decidedly cautious optimism. Now the optional UI and nostalgic filter represent yet another feather in Bloober's cap as we ride out the last few weeks𝔍 until the remake's October 8 release date.

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Yamaoka very෴ sensibly explained in a that in the 25 years since he sat down and formulated the iconic score for Silent Hill 2, his🌞 approach toward making music has changed dramatically.

"Remade all🌳 the original tracks and added new ones," Yamaoka said. "After 25 years, my approach to music has evolved. This work reflects that change, blending past passion with today’s sound, challenging me like never before."

If I was sitting in front of Yamaoka right now, I'd ask where he draws the line between respecting such a beloved video game sc🐻ore and making sure the music has evolved along with his artistry after so many years. It must be somewhat daunting tinkering with something so universally treasured but also finding ways to modernize it and respect his own vision, but alas, this isn't an interview.

Our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 Re෴෴make hands-on preview is just one of many that recently surfaced daring to flip on its head the whole narrative around Bloober Team's ability to pull this thing off. Bloober has a few hits in t꧅he bag, namely Layers of Fear and Observer, but it's also released a few duds, *cough* Blair Witch *cough*, leaving some Silent Hill fans in doubt about whether the studio can do justice to one of the most iconic horror games of all time. However, with hands-on impressions being near universally positive, it's possible those fears have been unwarranted a🌠ll along.

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In an interview with , creative director Mateusz Lenart explained that he reckons the sequel "just matches our DNA better" because "it's much more emotional, a much more personal s🌺tory than, for examp🍒le, the first game or the third game."

According to Lenart, Bloober Team have apparently always been "fans of telling personal stories about pe🎃ople's experiences, people's feelings and how they go through them," as opposed to strictly focusing on "occultism and things from 𓂃other worlds."

Lead produꦫcer Maciej Głomb agreed that Silent Hill 2 was "the best match" based on the team's prior work on The Medium, Layers of Fear, and Blair Witch. "Even in our previous games, we were so inspired by Silent Hill 2 in more specific aspects - in Layers Of Fear, which is a completely different game, but having those different endings, it was inspired by Silent Hill 2," Głomb continues.

But Głomb was also open enough to acknowledge that "it's not like we were making the decision" since "the franchise is connected to Konami's plans." Konami's plans also currently include new games in the series, from Silent Hill f and Silent Hill Townfall, and presumably more 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming horror games. 

Silent Hill 2 Remake is coming to PC and PS5 on October 8. Gamesradar's Jasmine Gould-Wilson played the first five houܫrs of Silent Hill 2 Remake, and was pleasantly, if not cautiously, surprised. "It's clear that the Silent Hill 2 Remake proudly holds ti🌃ght to what the production teams identified as its core tenets," she wrote in her preview.

Silent Hill 2 veteran says the survival horror classic would have featured multiple protagonists if it didn’t make the story “too complicated.” 

"Some accounts have asked me if David Lynch's films were the references for Silent Hill 2," veteran Team Silent art director Masahiro Ito says on . "Yes, of course, some of them were. When we were building the outline of the story, there was an idea that two or three guys were the main protagonists like Lost Highway's story. But, if we had chosen the plan, the story would have become too complicated. And ♓then the plan was rej🐟ected." 

We've long known how much Lynch and other experimental filmmakers influenced Silent Hill 2 in particular, going all the way back to interviews with outlets like prior to the game's original release in 2001. But if the devs have ever spoken ღabout the possibility of it featuring multiple protagonists before, those comments are well buried - and now that the game has been cemented as a survival horror classic, it's tough to imagine it taking a majorly different form.

With the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 Remake on the way, we'll need to get used to seeing the game in a new light, however. The remake aims to stay faithful to the original in many ways - the shot-for-shot "love letter" to the old 2001ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ trai🎉ler is evidence of that - but we know it's going to feature some very new stuff as well. Our recent 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:hands-on ꦗpreview of the Silent Hill 2 R♊emake not🗹ed that there are new endings this time around, and the devs have recently that th🏅e remake will take around 20 hours to complete, which is much, much longer than the original.

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I'm happy to report that James Sunderland's revamped nightmare is no exception to the rule. It might be operating on a more simplistic level to the action-forward likes of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil 4 Remake, but after getting familiar with two key weapons during my 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 Remake preview session, I'm officially sold. It just goes to show that even with the remake renaissance hailing the return of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best survival horror games, to varying degrees of like-for-like accuracy, some things are better left in the past. Even if, according to Silent Hill 2's key production team, the game's refin🎶ed combat system is not meant to be central to it.

Never (bul)let me go

I'ꦺm pacing through the decayed dereliction of the Wood Side and Blue Creek Apartments respectively, nothing but four handgun bullets and a trusty plank of wood at my side. Tell-tale radio static buzzes in my ear, louder and louder as I round a corner an🍌d prepare to meet…well, something. The experience is made all the more immersive for Silent Hill 2 Remake's over-the-shoulder viewpoint. Hallways feel narrower from this angle, the walls ever threatening to close in on James as he systematically throws himself against locked door after locked door in search of – OH GOD. 

Suddenly, a spider mannequin leaps out from the shadows and right up into my face. An involuntary scream erupts from my chest as I quickly go about battering the thing with my plank – the only appropriate way to thank it for the jumpscare. Once I've furiously coughed up my own swallowed tongue, though, I find myself breaking out into a proud smile. This is exactly what I'm talking about, Bloober Team.

The third person perspective lends itself so well to shooter and ♓melee combat encounters that it really can't be overstated how much of an impact it has on the gameplay experience. At a base level, it proves to me that Bloober Team and Konami are serious about adapting the 23-year-old horror game to suit modern genre expectations, even if it means changing up something that once felt so enmeshed with Silent Hill 2 from a stylistic perspective.

But from camera perspe✅ctive to creature design, Polish developer Bloober Team knew it had to handle Silent Hill 2 Remake with care. "At the very beginning, we didn't want to chang🌱e anything completely, because we were too afraid of touching the game," lead producer Maciej Głomb said at the media premier Q&A forum. "Especially at the beginning, we had a lot of conversations about characters, about monsters. We got into deep conversations about how we should approach them." 

Before you panic about that approach to changes, you should know that they aren't really that dramatic. In fact, Masahiro Ito clarified at the pre🔥miere event that not only are there "absolutely no brand-new monsters in the game," any and all changes to them were necessary on a mechanical rather than design level. 

"While we have not made any massive changes🔯 to all the enemies that have been present in the original, we have reworked the combat mechanics, because the combat mechanics were, frankly, not very smooth in the original game," he'd said earlier in the Tokyo event. "While working on the combat, we also decided to add some minor variance – some very visual, slight changes – to all the enemy designs." 

In short: a third-person camera angle necessitates refining the combat style, and a refined combat style means James and the monsters will fight each other in different ways to accommod𝄹ate all the changes. As a result, some might look or move differently to how they did in the original. Personally, I'm very much on board with all of the above reworks – granted, I was six when Silent Hill 2 came out in 2001 and felt wholly exasperated by the clunky controls when I eventually played it in my mid-teens. 

But desp♓ite all these necessary tweaks, Ito-san has made﷽ one thing clear: "this game is not supposed to be oriented heavily toward combat." That is where things start to make a little less sense to me in terms of what is being said about the Silent Hill 2 Remake versus what it actually feels like.

All bite, no bark

Third-person shooter sensibilities have become a mainstay in modern survival horror's design brief, and with that, I've come to expect a heightened action experience. The gunplay in Silent Hill 2 Remake feels smooth and sharp, the DualSense controller making snappy work of my enemies whether I'm aiming down my sights or walloping a Lying Figure with reckless abandon. I know I can simply creep around these enemies, which is perhaps what Ito-san is getting at, but why on earth would I not want to make use of t๊his simple yet extremely fun combat system? And why say that this game is not geared towards combat when, for the most part, I feelꦡ James is in a state of perma-combat?

Hear me out: I like all the combat, and I like the sense of danger on every corner. It's the same approach I take to Resident Evil, The Evil Within, and indeed any survival horror game I get my hands on. I don't like to leave witnesses, so if the bullet fits the bad guy, you can bet your bottom dollar I'll kill my digital enemies first and as𓄧k myself if it was a good use of ammo later. Killing everything is made all the more attractive by the fact that there does not seem to be any weapon degradation system in Silent Hill 2 Remake. That means my faithful wooden plank, bloodied and bent out of shape though it might be, proves reliable whenever I get a bit too trigger-happy. The result? A great many beatings.

I didn't expect it, but th🦩e simple pleasures of whaling monsters to death with a wooden plank or shooting them in their misshapen ankles are standout factors to me in Silent Hill 2 Remake.  I'm not asking for a Resident Evil 6-style total genre twist further down the line if Silent Hill 3 gets remade, don't get me wrong. But as Konami and Bloober Team work to bring this dormant series into the 2020s, I think it's okay to enjoy killing monsters in video games again – and it's okay to admit that combat is important to the genre, too.

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Just earlier today, Konami released a brand new story-oriented trailer for Silent Hill 2 remake, which you can see in full just below. The trailer opens with protagonist James Sunderland&a𝓡pos;s wife, Maria, speaking to him from within a jail cell, and focuses on his other interactions with supporting characters within the titular town,ꦺ including Eddie.

It turns out this trailer was desi𒁏gned to be developer Bloober Team's "love letter" to the original Silent Hill 2 trailer from all the way back in 2001. That's according to Bloober Team creative director and lead designer, Mateusz Lena𝕴rt, writing on Twitter, praising Konami for collaborating with Bloober Team on the trailer. "I think it captures the mood of the game pretty well," Lenart adds.

The trailer Lenart is referencing is the one seen just below, and watching the two side by side, they're incredibly alike. The trailer opens with the same monologue from Maria, before cutting to🅘 James' found footage-style film of Maria👍 within the hotel. The trailer even opens with the same few guitar notes, and later features James confronting Eddie about why he can't kill people.

One could even 🦋argue that the 2001 trailer is more action-packed than the new trailer for Bloober Tea💮m's remake. A common criticism of Silent Hill 2 remake trailers over the past year is that they've focused too much on action, but the new trailer merely features James stalking around the town, while the 2001 trailer has him both killing monsters and being killed by monsters.

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At the same event, iconic Silent Hill 2 artist Masahiro Ito told us that he didn't want to remake the horror classic, but he decided to cooperate to "make sure the core was preserved."

Appearing at the Tokyo 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 preview event on August 8, Yamaoka was asked how it felt to return to the game more than two decades later. "The first thing he had to do was a bit of self-counseling," Yamaoka's tr♋anslator says. "He had to ask a lot of questions to himself, like, 'what was I thinking back then? How did I live my life back then? Who was I? What was my mental state, and how was I approaching life at that time?' And he says that he couldn't remember."

The passage of time has made some details frustratingly hazy for the celebrated music composer, but he does remember one thing about the 2001 game's production process. "He was not very financially stable at the time. And he did not have🐭 enough money to buy a bass guitar. So what he had to do was tune down the guitar strings so that it would sound more low key. He had to take all these extreme measures and be very creative with what he was doing at the time in order to [make the game,] but he still had the passion to want to make something great." 

Sure, Akira Yamaoka "can't replicate the same circumstances that he was🌸 in 25 years ago," but now he has a new goal:💝 "to deliver something that feels fresh for both existing fans and for newcomers. So, long story short is he tried to get in touch with his younger self, but he couldn't. He still ended up trying to make something [out of] who he is right now."

Silent Hill 2 Remake is set to launch on October 8 on PS5 and PC, and with a stellar soundtrack comprised of "over nine hours worth of music," it see♓ms al😼most certain that Yamaoka is set to deliver excellence once more.

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"Back in late 2019 or 2020, he says that [Konami series producer] Motoi Okamoto reached out to him via Twitter, as it was called back then, and asked whether he would be willing to cooperate in a Silent Hill 2 Remake," Ito-san's translator said at the Tokyo 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 Remake preview event on August 8. "At the time, he had felt that there was no need to do such a thing. So his ℱoriginal plan was to reject the idea."

However, he soon had a change of heart. "Even if he were to reject the idea, he said he felt that there was always th꧅e chance that Konami would be open to creating a remake even without his support. 

"Rather than let the project go without him, he felt it was best for him to cooperate✤ and to do his best to make sure that the core of what made Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 2, was preserved in the best way possible. There was the initial idea of preserving the core ღbut giving it a new coat of paint," he says of his reasons to work on the project despite not feeling a remake was all too necessary.

Ito-san then addressed the different content, stylistic, and design chang꧋es that had been tabled for the remake and how it differs from what the game turned out to be. "The original idea that Konami and Bloober Team had in mind may have been a little different from what we ended up with right now. But [Masahiro Ito] believes that by cooperating [in the remake], he was able to inject the core principle of what Silent Hill 2 is and preserve it in a way that is brushed up and polished, so that players of the current generation will be able to appreciate wꦗhat was crucial to Silent Hill 2."

Silent Hill 2 Remake launches on October 8꧅ on PC and PS5.

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Their apparent anxiety (and pride) reminds me of something Okamoto-san has just told us, specifically of Konami's initial move to enlist the Polish studio in its remake of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Silent Hill game ever. "What we wanted to seek in our partner was the strong passion towards the game," he said. "So we had a list of candidates that we were willing to work with, and we reacﷺhed out [to Bloober Team]. I have first-hand selected them as my own decision." The unfinished game isn't without its hiccups even at this late stage, but that passion Okamoto speaks of is instantly palpable.

You promised you'd take me there again someday 

It's clear that the Silent Hill 2 Remake proudly holds tight to what the production teams identified as its core tenets, from its tension and atmosphere, to the belter of a reworked soundtrack. But the five ▨hours I spent with the game would also go on to unveil a curious sense of hesitancy, constantly pulling it back from being either a totally faithful remake or a brave reimagining entirely.

I'm impressed by plenty of bright spots throughout my hands-on experience, including the game's dynamic third-person movement, refined combat, and expanded exploration zones. So much so that, even with my concerns at this point in its development, I'm hopeful that Silent Hill 2 Remake may🥀 yet make a lasting impression upon modern day survival horror audiences – even if the creative teams s🦩ound apologetic for its very existence at times.

Before we get started, Okamoto walks us through the game's nine key new features. We know to expect a thick and realistic blanket of fog enveloping Silent Hill thanks to the game's 4k graphics, including faithful recreations of key locations "down to miniscule items," and facial mo-cap to make cutscenes "as emotional as possible." On the technical side, he also mentions 3D sound design to heighten immersion, an over-the-shoulder third-person camera perspective, reworked combat featuring a dodge mechanic and aiming reticule, remapping of existing enemies, new and expanded areas and puzzles, and the inclusion of all original endings. There will even be some brand new Silent Hill 2 e⛄ndings that can "only be accessed in New Game+," Bloober Team tells GamesRadar+, though the studio shies away from revealing more.

Keeping all of this in mind, I set out on my Silent Hill 2 Remake journey. The game picks up at exactly the same place as the 2001 original, with protagonist James Sunderland arriving at the small, deserted town after receiving a mysterious summons from his supposedly deceased wife. It's charged with as much creeping dread as ever. The team discussed making the iconic introductio🎃n "more action-heavy," says cr💧eative director Lenart, but admits it "did not feel like it was very Silent Hill, and this is why we made the choice to keep it as it was and only pick up the pace after some time."

But after taking my first few steps into the mist, I find myself needing to swap over to performance mode in order to achiꦿeve smooth 60 frames-per-second gameplay. It's a little troubling so close to release, especially with quality mode not seeming to boost fidelity much at all, though it's possible this is an older build of the game. But even these instances of texture drop-out while staring into the recesses of West Vale's many overfilled dumpsters isn't enough to ruin my day. That's because these opening scenes excel at nailing the atmosphere of Silent Hill as a location, turning it into an expansive, malevolent entity in itself.

It might be more modern than fixed camera angles, but the third-person perspective does nothing to detract from how disorienting it feels not to be able to see more than a foot in front of you. Likewise, don't bother to memorize any of the puzzles and key item locations from the original game – you'll find many of them have been remapped entirely in the remake. Feeling so lost in a world I thought I knew pretty damn well is an appropriately jarring sensation, demonstrating Bloober's understanding of how to create uncanny familiarity that keeps you on your toes. It's something that instantly drew me into Capcom's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil 2 Remake back in 2019, and I'm relieved to see flashes of brave mechaꦰnical innovation in Silent Hill 2 Remake as well.

The addition of a single new puzzle while exploring West Vale, involving a broken record, is an example of thi🌠s, proving formative in altering my pathing through the town as I'm led on a wayward treasure hunt. Repairing the record and listening to the music triggers a memory, and where does it lead me? The next main area: Wood Side Apartments. I find it a simple yet effective change to how James makes his way there in the oriℱginal, but purists may find the tweak too extreme.

Trigger happy

Hardwood plank in-hand, I take on the iconic Lying Figures enemies with relentless aggression. I know I don't need to kill them all – and in some Silent Hill games, you'd be wise not to – but the satisfying thwack of wood against meaty carcass is worth every moment of🧔 overkill. The precision element is certainly refreshing in Silent Hill 2 Remake, trading the unwieldy clunk of the original's fixed camera angles for a more targeted approach that allows me to off far more monsters than I would playing the original.

The more I play, the more the puzzles and combat stand out to me 🅰as the biggest mechanical strengths of Silent Hill 2 Remake – even if Ito-san insists that "the game is not heavily oriented toward combat." The former is something Lenart is especially proud of himself. "I think we have been able to capture this smooth balance between the memory of the original game and new content that can, I think, surprise the long-time fans of the series," he says of the puzzle and level design reworks.

As a fan of third-person shooters and the way survival horror games have implemented their combat in recent years – 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Alan Wake 2, I'm looking at you – I'm not mad about it. It just gives James more ways to approach a situation, as well as giving me a fighting cꦜhance should I be unable to sneak past a foe.

But with a game like Silent Hill 2, even the smallest🐽 of changes are bound to surprise its dedicated fans one way or another. "At the very beginning, we didn't want to change anything completely, because we were too afraid of touching the game," lead producer Głomb admits, acknowledging the risks of remaking such a cult classic video game. "But after time, we saw that we needed to expand on the game in a way that would beᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ competitive in this generation of consoles." 

These alterations might not be for everyone, but I find them refreshing. By the time I break into the Blue Creek A👍partments, just over three hours into the preview session, I note how well the expanded zones help establish the world of Sileꦏnt Hill for new and returning players alike. But there was one more surprise in store for me in the form of a nasty new enemy variant, though it's important to note that accoridng to Ito-san, there are "absolutely no brand new monsters" in the game.

As I aim my flashlight-mounted handgun to help navigate the detritus of the nightmare apartment block, relief floods my body. Thไe coast is somewhat clear, for no♋w. It's a brief respite, because I soon come face to face with the Spider Mannequins. Or as I like to call them: the bane of my absolute stinking life.

I mean that with a lot of love. These monsters scurry across the floor, dodging my painstakingly-timed shots with unfair levels of grace that James can only dream of in his drab khaki raincoat. Mannequins give me the biggest jumpscares of the day, as many a lurking developer unfortunately becomes privy to. Every time I enter a room only to have a mann🧔equin suddenly move in the corner, I'm thrown into a fear-fueled frenzy and batter it to death with my melee weapon, hissing the vilest profanity known to the English language to the gleeful titters of Team Silent and company.

Even this rage is borne of love. For all of Silent Hill 2 Remake's reworks to the form, flow, and style of the original, it more than succeeds at delivering a compulsive survival horror experience. Modern flourishes seek to bring it in line with today's genre standards, falling just shy of makinওg any truly huge moves to break with its core conventions while show♑ing new sides to a beloved franchise that's finally emerging from dormancy. Having had a closer look at what Bloober Team is aiming for on October 8, I'm more than ready to give Silent Hill 2 Remake the chance it deserves.

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