Silent Hill collection to return as Konami hosts expose occasion


Artwork of a rumored Silent Hill game, featuring a character covered in sticky notes at the end of a hallway

Image: Masahiro Ito/Konami

After several reports and also leakages, and also over a years without a significant brand-new game, Konami will certainly expose the future of the Silent Hill collection on Wednesday today, at 5 p.m. EDT.

“In your restless dreams, do you see that town?” the firm tweeted from the authorities Silent Hill account. “The latest updates for the SILENT HILL series, will be revealed during the #SILENTHILL Transmission on Wednesday, October 19th, at 2:00 PM. PDT.”

The tweet web links to a new Silent Hill website, which has no more details.

Masahiro Ito, that functioned as beast developer and also art supervisor on the initial 3 Silent Hill games, retweeted the news. Ito confirmed in 2020 that he was functioning as “a core member” of a growth group on a brand-new game. An item of art work authorized by Ito showed up in a series of images that leaked previously this year, professing to be from a brand-new Silent Hill game.

These photos are said to relate to a P.T.-design usable intro for a brand-new, mainline Silent Hill. South Korea’s game scores body recently rated a game called Silent Hill: The Short Message.

Also in the jobs, supposedly, is a remake of Silent Hill 2 made by Polish scary professional Bloober Team (Layers of Fear), which announced a partnership with Konami in 2014. A 3rd reported task entails an anecdotal, story-focused collection. Also, Christophe Gans, that routed the 2006 movie Silent Hill, has actually stated he’s dealing with the manuscript for a 3rd Silent Hill flick.

Any and also all of this may be disclosed on Wednesday; it’s also feasible we’ll see the launch of the reported usable intro.

Despite being extremely preferred with scary followers, the Silent Hill collection has actually been basically inactive because 2012, which saw the launch of Silent Hill: Downpour and also portable offshoot Silent Hill: Book of Memories. Neither title was well obtained. The collection scheduled for a prominent relaunch in a game called Silent Hills, generated as a partnership in between Hideo Kojima and also the movie supervisor Guillermo del Toro, and also advertised by the launch of P.T. But the game was terminated in 2015 in the middle of Kojima’s acrimonious departure from Konami and also the author’s partial resort from significant game growth.

The return of Silent Hill is a huge minute for followers of the collection, and also it’s likewise a huge examination for Konami, which hasn’t launched a significant video clip game because 2018’s Metal Gear Survive unless you count the dreadful launch of its rebranded football franchise business, eFootball. All eyes will certainly get on Wednesday’s news to see if it can restore gamers’ depend on.

 

Source: Polygon

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