Whereas it is perhaps laborious to disclaim that Konami has been on a roll with its newer entries within the Silent Hill franchise, collection producer Motoi Okamoto has confirmed that the corporate initially introduced three tasks within the franchise collectively to indicate its dedication. As caught and translated by Automaton Media, Okamoto took to social media to speak concerning the Silent Hill franchise, and Konami’s dedication to bringing the collection again with new releases.
He famous that, whereas Konami may have merely gone with an strategy that will permit it to “take a look at the waters” for Silent Hill returning with a single launch or remake, this wasn’t what the corporate wished to do. Quite, Konami has been fairly critical about reviving the franchise, which in flip would contain each a remake in addition to a brand new entry within the collection.
“Three years in the past, in 2022, we introduced three titles: Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill f, and Silent Hill: Townfall,” wrote Okamoto. “We didn’t wish to simply announce a single remake to ‘take a look at the waters.’ We wished folks to really feel how critical we have been about reviving the collection. Creating a remake and a brand new title concurrently naturally includes dangers, however we wished to convey our dedication initially.”
The dangerous transfer has fairly clearly paid off for Konami, with each Bloober Staff’s Silent Hill 2 remake, in addition to NeoBards’ Silent Hill f seeing fairly a little bit of important and industrial success. He famous that gamers not already accustomed to the collection wouldn’t have engaged with a brand new entry as deeply in the event that they didn’t assume that there was a future for the collection.
“Solely when a brand new recreation is introduced can the way forward for a collection be seen,” he wrote. “Customers gained’t really feel motivated to interact with an IP until they’ll sense it has a future. If the corporate takes a wait-and-see strategy, so will the gamers. The corporate wants to indicate how critical it’s so that customers can get genuinely excited. I feel that’s solely honest.”
Konami lately introduced that the Silent Hill 2 remake from final 12 months had bought greater than 2.5 million copies worldwide. This, in flip, has helped the general Silent Hill collection hit a brand new gross sales milestone of over 10 million models. The newest entry within the franchise was Silent Hill f which got here out simply final month. Developed by NeoBards and that includes writing by Ryukishi07, the title has been described fairly positively by followers of the horror style.
Earlier this month, voice actor Konatsu Kato – who performs Silent Hill f protagonist Hinako Shimizu – spoke about her time within the recording sales space, in addition to how she was emotionally affected by the writing and efficiency. Whereas noting that the recording began off “easily,” Kato then revealed that she began asking herself questions, particularly when it got here time to having recording together with her personal character.
“Since I used to be taking part in Hinako, and the opposite actor was additionally taking part in Hinako, I’d get confused about who I used to be—each within the function and in actuality,” she defined. “There have been occasions again then when tears would simply come out despite the fact that I wasn’t occupied with something. The confusion grew in proportion to the “time spent dealing with one another,” so I bear in mind having days once I felt like I’d lose my thoughts.”
For extra particulars concerning the current entries within the Silent Hill franchise, try our opinions of Silent Hill 2’s remake and Silent Hill f. Within the meantime, Bloober Staff has confirmed that it has begun engaged on a remake of the unique Silent Hill.
