Modern Silent Hill | The Poisoned Well 

He had nothing to do with it. I don’t know why people say that. Last thing that asshole needs is more credit than he’s due.

Don't forget junji Ito, who was supposed to work on silent hills.

Team Silent as a collective are remembered rather than one individual director. Unfortunately, that band's been permanently disbanded. What's sad is that Google doesn't acknowledge the group as a whole in the search results for the "creator of Silent Hill", because it was really all of them that were responsible.

Chris Chen As is the case with any game really.

Christopher Marlowe No. You seem to be bothered by something though.

I fucking hate Kojima. His games are mediocre and the disgusting fetishs he shoves into them are so creepy. Idiot thinks he's a movie director.

@@stuartcaffrey2949 Mediocre? METAL GEAR SOLID = 94 Metacritic METAL GEAR SOLID 2: SONS OF LIBERTY = 96 Metacritic METAL GEAR SOLID 3: SUBSISTENCE = 94 Metacritic METAL GEAR SOLID 4: GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS = 94 Metacritic METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN = 95 Metacritic You might not like them, but that's all up to your contrarian taste, the quality of the games are undeniable if ALL the reviews put together average over 90 out of 100.

Stuart Caffrey I can understand the difference in taste but MGS1, 2 and 3 are some of the most important games ever made.

@@ihavenomouthandimustmeme6928 Kojimas games are messy and he cant keep up story together, it goes all over the place.

@@ihavenomouthandimustmeme6928 >using reviews from game "journalists" as an argument ouch. and i LIKE mgs4, but implying it or V are as phenomenal as MGS3 or Splinter Cell Chaos Theory is insane.

I couldn't agree more with you. It is waaaaaay better to let the imagination fill the gaps. Remember the mall in SH3? Damn those noises haunted me for years

Yeah i agree 100%. Americans cant do horror like Japan does. Even shitty eastern horror is just as terrifying as some of the best of western horror. And subtlety is absolutely the key to that.

In SH2, they recorded over 100 different footstep sounds to play randomly as James walks/runs, so that the player never gets a sense of comfort.

For me, I always end up recalling the Historical Society portion of SH2: a nonstop onslaught of visual/auditory terror that creates a real nightmare

I mean, horror *can* work both ways, but I won't deny the fact that they tried doing it again and again, so I think the way they are doing it isn't working... Mysterious and threatening is a potent combo, it's just not the things they are either going for, or managing to implement in a successful manner. My two cents.

It's worse. That was the point I was making.

@@Ghenry I don't know, I'd rather have a character who was getting overhyped to the point of exhausting the love and patience of fans getting overshadowed by a bit character from a teaser who might not have even been involved in the full game. It's not as though everybody's forgotten about Pyramid Head, he just isn't the hotness anymore when it comes to Silent Hill discussion. At least this means we might not have to worry about any potential future game trying to shoehorn another pointless cameo or cheap imitator that devalues the purpose of the original, in Pyramid Head's case that is.

If you’re just glancing at what amounts to a eh game that doesn’t really appeal to anyone other than it previous fans and if the only other horror title you played was the OTHER major franchise that is big on action and has monster really called Nemesis... yeah everyone’s only Going to pay attention to the guy with the metal Pyramid on his head and the Giant knife.

They also really watered him down to "scary man big helmet bigger knife" when in his first outing he was pretty weird, with flesh bulging out of the helmets bottom to hint at weird anatomy, him looking around with his hands and pulling open the big slot on his head to... smell? That's what I like about pyramid head, not big helmet big knife, but his inhuman nature if you look a little closer.

lmao facts. Pyramid head shouldnt show up anywhere that doesnt involve James. Like all the shit that happens is supposed to be unique to whoever the focus of the story is. Now we got heather and pyramid head in dbd when it should actually be James.

@@NowhereBeats Yeah, IMO all the Western SH stories fail because they try to be SH2, specifically they try to ape the twist ending of SH2 without getting why that twist works so well: First, the game didn't give the twist away in some thin veiled foreshadowing. Second, the previous game wasn't famous for its mind blowing twist, so there wasn't any expectations going in. That's why I hate ppl that tries to diss SH3 for not going the "personal hell" route of SH2, bc the western SH games shows how predictable the stories would become if they keep retreading the same thing at every game.

Rmember when the remake of Alone in The Dark copied its film...!?

@@LEONOX233 that’s what I thought silent hill downpour did so very well: It took the formula from silent hill to an actually delivered very well without repeating that formula point by point. Because needless to say silent hill 2 was one of the greatest in the series

When I heard Christopher Gans was going to direct Silent HIll film, I was excited. I've enjoyed some of his other films that were released in the US. But in my joy, I forgot that while he was a great visual director, from a story telling perspective, they're just sort of basic. His films don't have a whole lot of meaning, other than be fun to watch. So it shouldn't have surprised me that he nailed the visual look of the game (don't deny it. His 'otherworld' looked spot on), but failed at the deeper narrative present in the games.

like, not to defend a film that shouldn't have been called SH, but Alessa... is not the source of the evil in the town? it's constantly implied that the Thing that took her shape is NOT alessa, but the town, or evil itself (not satan/the demon etc, it's basically just evil & death itself), it just took her likeness bc it was easy to fool her into manifesting her revenge. yeah i don't think it should have been called silent hill but the way it's intentionally misunderstood kind of bothers me sometimes

I've played my first silent hill game in 2015(silent hill origin's) and seeing these characters these concepts was an amazing experience So i got curious and did some research on the game and I've found out it was one of the worst silent hills And then a year after origins I've played silent hill 1 and I've never in my life been so scared. But now i look at the modren horror games and say(*what happened?)

@@DD-hx8td I played the first one when I was 8. I turned out fine... ...mostly.

@@acheron16 i can see the impact from your pfp

Yeah the post mortem soundtracks were pretty disappointing compared to 1-4

I've never played the Silent hill series and my first real point of intrigue into the series was when PT came out, well I got some exposure due to the movies, but all I thought as a kid was "They're psychological horror and they're damn scary" and I thought it was kinda like the RE series which was the one I did know about both for the games and the movies. But I definitely was a little confused when PT came, I knew that Kojima was someone knew, because I knew that he was from Metal Gear Solid and I didn't associate him with a horror franchise. But that's only because of previous exposure to the series and a hunch that Kojima didn't make silent hill titles behind our backs all that time. A good thing about that is I was driven to learn more about the series (note: my mom really didn't like horror, nor games, and I only had hand-me-down games on my PS2 and eventually my PS3. The closest I got to playing Silent Hill was watching top clips on RU-vid around 2012.) and now that I have more knowledge it does sadden me a bit, definitely not as much as those who knew about Team silent before, but it does bamboozle me a bit to see those twitter posts or things acting like they're backlash to the series, but they don't know any better, PT isn't the only Silent Hill and we barely got a game out of it even, who knows how good the rest of it would have been, and at that, how faithful Kojima would have done it? I'm pretty sure if Hideo continued on the project it would've hailed a success, but I feel the fact that He didn't continue this and the game's story got spread around so much that it ended up overshadowing the earlier titles and especially the work of the first developers who started it all. People nowadays hail back to that Norman Reedus screenshot when they think of Silent Hill, or they just think of P.T. This definitely makes me want to buy Silent Hill and play it on my PS2 for the first time, and knowing that I won't be a youngin this time I could probably handle psychological horror And if I were to be playing Silent Hill back then I would indeed be too young to have played the first up to the third Silent Hill since I wouldn't even be able to read, the most-likely games I would have played would be the PS3 titles or those going from 2007-2012, but alas, I did not get to cherish such game experiences.

Yeah I was relieved to see some veterans of the genre and series get a crack at it, I don't think kojima would do it justice

For every one person shouting for Owaku or Sato, there were 10-20 people crying for Kojima on all social platforms

@@Ghenry That destroys me cause ya, I was interested to see how he would handle it, but I was more interested in fuckin Guillermello Del Toro and Junji Ito working on a Silent Hill game then him.

@@TheParadoxGamer1 They would do the best parts probably.

@Rando I worry about the future of the franchise but I'd definetly sound like a kojima hater to you I guess, despite me being a metal gear fan too. It's just they are different fruits, and although I love metal gear for what it is... it shows many weaknesses in Kojima that he never improved upon, but rather worsened, like his overexposition long rambling goofy memeable iconic philosophic existential hyperdimensional midboggling dialogue. That stuff would destroy silent hill, I can imagine him putting this corny stuff in a scene and it ruining the whole damn thing, him explaining the history of the town and how it relates to cold war events and to the future of mankind and hegel's, zola's, weber's etc. theory of the human condition etc etc. I don't care about that at all, that stuff killed me in metal gear solid already lol. Other than I really disliking his gameplay sometimes, it gets very repetitive. But the worst would be the emotionally shallow characterization he has. Like I said in another comment, Silent Hill tells a much more moving and profound story by just using the right words, the right way. Imagine him writing the character of Walter Sullivan for example. Again, I'm still a fan of early MGS, but it's not the same style. It's like asking Tarantino to remake a Hitchcock, Bergman or even worse a Tarkovski film. He can't do that, it'd become his own thing. Kojima should do Kojima projects only, that's where he can himself as much as he loves to. I guess a Kojima game is already my own version of silent hill lmfao, so I shouldn't be complaining so much, since it'd be a silent hill game either way :P

The terminal show Witchcraft

And Scarlett

-two best friends playthrough of it

The whole OST

AM I the only guy who enjoyed rolling around and pretending I'm link from zelda, but with Alex? xD homie Alex was the most OP silent hill mc of them all, and I swear thats what people remember the most, the wacky knife combos and shit. Lmao

Maybe Fake Silent Hill Fans!? I'Dunno

Bandwagoners

Casual PS4 fans who never played SIlent Hill prior to P.T.

People who only watched RU-vidrs play PT

I saw the comments and was at complete loss Kojima barely was involved in PT anyways. these people just liked the shlock easy to digest simple themes of MG and think that applies to Silent Hill.

Downpour's disadvantage was inexperienced studio that couldn't bite it. I might be wrong, but Downpour was, like, their 1st big game.

@@Mafon2 Their first and last game.

@@coldstuff9784 amen.

@@Mafon2 actually most of Vatra Game was veteran devs who made Mafia and Mafia II, they have talent just ask Konami about the time and money Vatra Games was given

@@hieunguyenrileygekko yeah, my bad, I checked it recently, they were pretty experienced bunch. Still, it was new grounds for them.

Same with Devil May Cry, hell DmC didn't work because it also lacked what made DMC special to begin with.

Only with Extensive Research for the setting. America isnt too good when it comes to this.

@@baroquechevalier8516 This, DMC was always western inspired. It wasn't until 4 where things changed

Silent Hill and Dark Souls have a lot in common story wise, i could argue that with a lot of mental gimnastics they could even exist in the same universe if You take into consideration sh3 theology of the cult that states that humanity is trapped in an endless cycle of pain and suffering, so they pleaded to the god and god took pity on humanity and wanted to grant humanity death, not as a punishment but as a gift, such is the paradise the cult would have descend upon the world, death for humans, that would imply that our souls cannot die and linger in pain like in Sh4 or reincarnte like Alessa in Cheryl and Heather and the unamed baby. Much like in Dark Souls we are undead, destined to respawn and die again and again.

@@baroquechevalier8516 well, some of the blame for that has to be placed on Capcom for pushing NT further than their original concept art, which is much closer to the original series, but was according to Capcom, not "western enough".

I agree. The game actually sucks dick, but the soundtrack and the mosters designs r dope. Remember Scarlet?

@@oMaruMesmo Scarlet was actually pretty damn creepy when I first fought her. Her entrance was pretty well done. She's the best designed monster in not only that game, but in the entire line up of western developed "Silent Hill" entries.

Right? "Witchcraft" Is a total Jam, One More Soul to the Call has maybe my favorite Akira's guitar work... As for the monster desing , i'll say the bosses were pretty good, at least they weren't an uninspired bland reskin of creatures from the original 3 games...

@@nicolasriveros943 "Witchcraft" is arguably the best track on that soundtrack, and definitely one of the best compositions in the series' history

@@oMaruMesmo Scarlet's Theme was amazing NIGHTMARE FUEL.

And Thats Alot People Who Don't Understand!?!? 🤔

But I can't use curse words :'(

Does shitting in a well poison it?

indeed

@Jordan Ghill Imagine being so offended by someone else's take on the series that you have to project your own hurt feelings onto someone else. Laughing face emoji ecks-dee!

I think it's way overdramatic. Much like the video itself.

Same! I was so upset when that potential horror-masterpiece combo of a production got cancelled. Love Junji Ito, his work would've fit in so well into a Silent Hill game.

Junji Ito and Del Toro working on a game's monster designs. Can you fucking imagine? We almost had that. Konami took it from us.

@@GundamGokuTV I respect both, but I have to say Itos' are miles ahead of Del Toros'

@@michael1390 we don't need comparison here. They both would have been involved.

Fellow Michael, you'll be happy to know that Kojima's working on a new horror game with Ito comicbook.com/gaming/news/hideo-kojima-junji-ito-horror-game-silent-hills-ps5-playstation/?fbclid=IwAR2E1si_Eb9CD24zGol_u85egLSvcV3tSCPEEzS2gZqXCSyXkTSMjz4GGWw

I'm going to be honest, I never expected Kojima to make a _real_ Silent Hill game. I lost hope for that years and years ago. But I was very excited for Silent Hills, because even if Kojima would have been a terrible match for this particular franchise, at least here would be a Silent Hill game with actual heart and character and charm. That would have been enough for me: Kojima's silly weird-ass take on a beloved franchise. But if he had been the mind behind it from the beginning? I think we'd be missing out on something very special.

@@DarthFennec You summed up my own thoughts perfectly.

@@DarthFennec The nice thing about silent hill is it SHOULD allow for different interpretations and styles...most of us fans are happy if what we get is just good...but that's hasn't really been the case since PS2.

No team silent no Silent Hill

@@Sammo212 I agree with you but I must disagree that it hasn’t been as good since PS2. I believe silent hill downpour was a worthy successor to the awesomeness of the original formula. homecoming was good but I think it founded a little bit and shattered memories I think was a very unique gem.

@Lord NicCage Thanks, Ghost Rider.

walt disney no one stop you from liking shit

Yep, Shaterred Memories and Origins are very goods Silent Hill Games I dont care if the most people desliked it.

Renatho Nathan your reason is shallow and effortlessly just like the games.

@@stevenrith2386 so what? I enjoy more Origins than Silent Hill 3( is very good too), and that is wat matters for me. The soundcracks are amazing like the others, the gameplay and Graphics is Ok for a PSP game, and the story remembers the first Two games, so I Have No reason to deslike this game. And Shaterred Memories the Soundtrack is spetacular, gameplay and graphics is good in all consoles, and I like the Choices System very interesting seeing this in a Silent Hill game. But if you dont like those games, fine too.

Honestly I think SM gets a lot of hate because people think it's trying to "rewrite" the original franchise, which is not. It's just a spin-off structured more like a suspense thriller and tried a lot of new stuff, which should be respected. It's definitely a freaky outlandish horror tale, but it feels like a very personal story that might hit close home to many. I really liked the game, and the music was amazing, I also like how it changes so much each time I revisit it.

Fun fact: It's actually Konami that's running the franchise into the ground, and ordered those games from outside "cheaper " studio's for a quick cash grab...

i wouldn't label it silent hill, or game either.

yup after all the whole situation is about her finally admitting to herself what happened and letting go. The ending I got was so touching.

Well i always loved SH4, despite its flaws, and i still find it the second most interesting game in the series only behind SH2

@@Klef_Takis I don't hate Silent Hill 4, mind you. It's biggest strength was the story and uncovering the mystery. Gameplay-wise, though, it felt a bit off compared to the first three entries. As we all ended up learning, however, considering the entries we got afterwards, telling an actual good story that fits what Silent Hill is about is infinitely preferable. I'll take escorting Eileen over stupid mirror-warping or pointless, unfulfilling side quests any day.

@@HisBubbliness Yup, pretty much that

his own thing sucked though

I'd rather play Homecoming than 4. 4 is such a chore to play... Even if the concept of the game is brilliant and it has some neat mechanics like first person for your own room and the progression of it, I just hate to actually play. I haven't even finished it once yet. I've beaten the trilogy dozens of times, I even beat Homecoming once (the game didn't keep my interest too much) but 4 is just there half finished.

Kojima would've been an absolutely horrible choice for Silent Hill. He has the subtlety of a sledgehammer and I actually enjoy games, not the glorified movies makes now.

No, kojima is always in a lot of exposition, when the silent hill games are not about exposition, its for sutilness and the fear of the unknown

@@Upsetkiller456 ah yes I make one bad game now I'm a movie maker

@@alphabroncotwozero392 Kojima ALWAYS was a pretty hack writer with an extreme emphasis on cutscenes what are you on about. MGS4 is notorius for them. He is a bad for Silent Hill but that doesn't mean I don't want him to do a horror game, he should, just his own title.

As far as i'm concerned Kojima stopped making good games after MGS4, hell MGSV had a 80 million usd budget and barely anything was properly done on that game, then the flop that is Death Stranding cemented to me that he lost his mojo.

Nah it stinks

I don't want to blame it only on culture but I think I do want to blame it on a lack of understanding of good writing. The reason I say that os because if you look at for example Jacobson's Ladder which is a strong inspiration for the original series, or Twin Peaks by Lynch, you definitely see a lot of that uncanny valley sensation of things not being quite right in the writing. I mention these sources since they're explicitly western. The original 4 games understood this and knew how to capture that feeling in the writing. It places a greater emphasized on introspection and the meaning of relationships especially with regards to what is real and unreal. There's a sense that you can never really trust your perspective o f reality which makes everything feel very uncanny. A lot of the horror comes from that I think, because it creates an existential anxiety where the player is made uncomfortable with themself. I honestly think that if we're looking for comparative horror games albeit with very different atmospheres, Frictional Games games really get this. The sort of existential dread Soma leaves you with haunts you for days. Again western studio. The problem with non-Team Silent games is that they just don't understand to understand what scares people, especially in the genre of psychological horror. Even Bloodborne understood this and we're talking FromSoftware which only has one other horror game to name under their belt. I mean I'm not going to say that culture does not play role at all be I think it does, because a lot of Japanese games just feel, for the lack of a better word, quirky, when they try to incorporate a western perspective through the narrative.

It's not 'that' bad

@@Ghenry Have you tried Remothered yet? I heard it's pretty good, albeit with a somewhat jumbled story.

@@chrisossu2070 Remothered had terrible dialogue at the end that destroyed it all for me. It felt like watching a terrible PSOne cutscene.

@@chrisossu2070 I remembered that Keiichiro Toyama, creator of the Silent Hill series and Forbidden Siren, expressed his admiration for Remothered and hoped to collaborate with Chris Darril.

I have to admit I thought homecoming was a bit of a mixed bag but still a good cylon whole game. And the fact that the bosses were actually the murdered children of the cult leaders I thought was downright disturbing

That's one thing we can agree on in homecoming.

The way too obvious to be actually creepy. Plus the fact that most team silent games monsters tie into the bad guys background. In Silent Hill, they're tied to Alessa's background and we're supposed to think that she's the bad guy. In Silent Hill 3, they're tied to Claudia's background and she's the bad guy. In Silent Hill 4, they're tied to Walter's background and he's the bad guy.

@@kalelvigil1510 I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. In what way are the monsters within the games you don’t like not frightening…?

I don't hate SM. It's too 'okay' for me to hate it. Don't mistake disinterest with 'hatred.'

Shattered Memories' reflections of your choice were shallow. Like that monster that saw the shape of its head change based on indicators like sex, religion, alcohol/drugs. It was a neat idea I just think it was poorly executed. I also hated how often you were being chased around like it was Crash fucking Bandicoot and there wasn't a scary element to be found.

@@Ghenry Your video still seems to be discussing this game almost like it's meant to be in the same universe of the original games but it's pretty obviously not and in a different timeline/universe from the original series. It may not have been a masterpiece but it was at least a potentially good foundation for an alternate timeline for new SH to work from. I mean lets be realistic that by the time origins and SH homecoming came out the SH story was convoluted at best. From game 1 it was really but by 5 it was just....confusing. In my opinion really the issue with shattered memories was that it was to short and therefore did not have time to full realize and expand on some of the excellent ideas it had gameplay and story wise. Some of the puzzles, while being to easy, were fairly fun and made good use of the controls on the wii and could have been interesting, again if the puzzles had been given more time to expand on them. I do wonder how much of that is development issues we dont know about caused by konami given how bad it is to work with konami as reported by many people who worked for them especially on the SH series (see the development issues with SH HD remakes for an example).

@@alteredstates927 i mean it changed based on your decisions subtly,i don't see what went wrong here according to you.

GhenryPerez Looking back that really wasn't the best word to use in here, yeah. Didn't mean to resume your thoughts as "LOL I HATED IT". What i meant to say was only that i disagree with this view of the game, but absolutely it's still important to have different views on media. After all this time SM is the Silent Hill i still think of besides SH2 as what made the series interesting, to me at least. It showed how the series could still be relevant and push the medium forward somehow. Still liked the video and love your chanel c:

I agree with this and I think he was being very unfair by generalizing the reasons why people thought that Kojima was the face of SH. You're right that the original four games made by Team Silent are over a decade old at this point and to my knowledge,they've never been released digitally either. The only way to play SH1 would be to go online and hope to get a copy that isn't expensive and have a PS1,an old gaming console. And the average person is simply not willing to go through those hoops. There is the HD Collection but: 1) it only has SH 2&3 2) It doesn't even include SH4, and 3)It's a terrible port in general that changes many things from the original games like the voice actors and is from a technical standpoint a buggy mess to boot. So the HD Collection is not the best place to start learning about the older games

Lucien Lachance My father committed suicide a few months prior to me playing Shattered Memories. I went into it blind and wasn’t able to guess the plot twist. When it finally happened I felt so touched by the game’s story that it has since become one of my favorites ever. I can see why some don’t like it, but when you separate it from SH I think it’s a genuinely great game.

@@dailydoseofvitaminc6565 Thank you for your comment and I am sorry for your lose. I didn't see the plot twist coming either. I could agree more with you about the game. thanks again and take care.

Lucien Lachance Thank you

Meanwhile, the arcade game (which came out a year earlier) had a boss that looked strikingly similar.

@@Ghenry I unfortunately never played or even knew about the arcade game, but seeing it in motion along with the music just really did it for me.

Homecoming was a disaster but some of the boss designs were interesting like the one you mentioned and Asphyxia or whatever her name was, the one that died by suffocation and to hurt her you actually have to remove the hands from her throat and force her to breathe.

No Scarlett mention?

Easy. Games 1 through 4. No Kojima whatsoever.

@@dbzfanjodi Yeah I'm pretty sure he was being ironic

@@Igneeka They'll never learn. For all the puzzles solved and items found, so many survival horror fans still suck at using context clues.

Yes, but not without Solid Snake

Kinda tells you something about these pieces.

GhenryPerez I think you went too hard on Shattered Memories. Viewing it as it’s own piece instead of connected to the original I think it honestly is a great game. I completely disagree with your takes on both the story and exploration. I loved the gameplay loop and it didn’t feel formulaic at all to me. I personally did not guess the twist and the story really hit me hard due to having a father who recently committed suicide. To this day Shattered Memories has one of my favorite video game stories. The only valid criticism I subscribed to for it is that the chase sequences were bad all around.

I think what he means is the western developers keep missing the mark. JP SH is influenced by western horror but still has a distincly japanese execution of the concept: subtletley and psych horror. Most western devs just see the western horror influence and not the JP horror one, so they just resort to using western tropes at face value, but then never seem to understand why they never captured the feeling of the original, despite the fact they literally missed a key ingredient.

@Christopher Marlowe Its not that no one likes Kojima. It's when people keep hyping him as if he was the original creator of Silent Hill himself and that no one else can do the game justice is what a lot of people have a problem with. This is the case that's being made and it's something I've seen too much in social media and other areas.

@Christopher Marlowe There's a difference between hating Kojima and laughing at the fact that people think SH can't be SH without Kojima

It already did, Kojima illusion of being a competent developer shattered with death stranding. It outed him as a lucky charismatic guy who knows a couple Hollywood stars. Style over substance is kojimas Moto. And many, including me, are happy kojima is not involved in Silent Hill, although I guess del Toro could have reigned kojima into something respectable

Some of the comments he showed said things like "SH without Kojima is blasphemy" or "it won't really be SH without Kojima" so it's apparent that there's a common misconception that he was the original creator.

Dead Space is western as well so that's probably the reason.

@@baroquechevalier8516 Though Deadspace came out sometime after Origins & Homecoming...!

Tbf dead space is a pretty good love letter for resident evil 4.

Dead Space generic? Lol, try one of the first person walking simulators, now that's generic

nop

My issue with the source code thing is that its not a good excuse. Its actually been pointed out before that archive data is not necessary at all. For example Blue Point who made many well done HD remasters never relied on source code. Instead they found old working retail copies of the games and reverse engineered them which insured they had every bit of data they needed. Now I will agree though that Konami with their meddling did not help alot of these studios. It honestly really broke my heart when I learned that almost everything people hated on Tomm Hulett for was actually Konami excecs fucking things up. Tomm didn't deserve alot of the hate he got.

Blame Twin whatsit, they put all the blame on him without even looking into Konami.

It's Korn.

Konami apparently came out saying they're false rumors. www.vg247.com/2020/03/24/konami-silent-hill-rumors-just-rumors/

@@BauliusTorvoltos Yep, I've read that. But still, Konami is Konami, and Konami is the worst, so it could be just PR talk. Or maybe not, and they that dumb, wouldn't suprise me.

same

Honestly not viewing SM as connected to Silent Hill I think it’s a genuinely great game and I wholeheartedly love it’s story

I was on the 'please let it die in peace' train also, but recently with games like God of War and Assassin's Creed, games I absolutely hated, have now gone through a reimagining of what those games could be, I think a competent company could make Silent Hill if they have access to real talent and artisanship.

Tucker Monticelli The issue is that I think everyone agrees that that company is not Konami

@@dailydoseofvitaminc6565 True, I would hope Konami would just license it out to Sony and get the free money from it while Sony actually builds a competent team.