Silent Hill Origins Development History | What Happened to Silent Hill on PSP? 

I cannot imagine how much stress and crunch those poor developers were under. It must have been absolutely brutal working on this game.

I've been saying it for *years* now but it's really incredible that Climax UK was able to salvage the sordid state of the scraps Climax US cobbled together to make a game that was actually pretty decent, in the span of just about a year no less. That's no easy feat. I never knew of the depth of the ineptitude of Climax US management, so that was cool to discover but unfortunate for the devs who had to suffer under those circumstances. Can't be surprised either that the main reason any of that occurred was due to Konami literally being Konami by sucking ass at being responsible for their studios and devs. One thing a lot of people don't understand/know is that Konami's ineptitude stretches all the way back to the 90s, it wasn't just a recent phenomenon. The fact that a lot of good/great games released in the 90s/2000s under their publishing is more telling of the talent of the devs, not the suits.

You bring the depth to the controversial surfaces of the franchise. One thing I've noticed in the fandom overall is they tend to focus on the surface product, but have little to no interest to what's unused in the game, the ideas that were scrapped, the process and development of the games we love, the people that made it work... it's just whatever the final game is like, and the "Team Silent" vs "American devs" entities. Ironic, coming from a franchise that's notorious for its depth into darker themes. I continue to enjoy your videos on these matters, and I hope more fans find you and discover these depths too.

Silent Hill Origins as a whole is a solid *OK* ...but learning the backstory behind the game's development you suddenly realize what a tremendous accomplishment it truly is. Just imagine how amazing the game would've been had Konami given the second team the time and the resources to fully achieve their own vision for it.

Alot of the problems with series really did stem from not having enough time in the "oven" so to speak and... Konami being Konami

It gets some hate just for being western made. But out of all of those, it feels the most like Silent hill to me. It does have it's problems of course, but I'm pretty happy that I got play something else that's surprisingly close to capturing the feeling the first game had.

You can't really fail with Silent Hill fans once you just follow one important cardinal rule when developing the game: It has to be scary. The reason why Origins is still considered an okay game despite some game design and story issues is simply because it still captures that cold sweat feeling of dread the original 4 had. Which is also why Homecoming and Downpour are considered to be duds and the simple reason is those games aren't all that scary. The "Scary" is all that matters, everything else comes secondary. Silent Hill is not about Pyramid Heads and bloody iron net hallways, its about psychological horror first and foremost. Shattered Memories was considered to be a good game and that P.T demo was superpopular and people were wishing Konami to give a greenlight to make it into a Silent Hill game, despite the game barely having any franchise hallmarks. Most important thing was simply that its scary and its psychological horror. Focusing on keeping the old visuals while failing to keep the scary atmosphere just leads the franchise to a path of Hellraiser where it becomes a cheap IP for lazy directors to exploit, making their own crappy horror films while having 5 min footage of Pinhead to justify calling it a "Hellraiser movie".

In my humble opinion, after the Japanese developers, Climax (UK, the one responsible for Origins and SM, I mean) was the only one on the right track to bring greatness back to the series. But Konami just preferred to kick the franchise around like an old, smelly pair of shoes 🤷🏾‍♂️

Really enjoyed this video, I've watched all your SH videos, there's something exceptional about this one, all of them are exceptional but this video was perfectly crafted. Nice job!

It's remarkable how fast Climax UK turned this game around... was O.R.T. already composed for the LA version, or did that masterpiece come in for the UK version?

At least it played like a Silent Hill game But man oh man are you right about SH4: was reluctant to play it, and then to beat it; but when I did, I loved the game 4 is up there

Not everyone got to experience Muse playing Origins for the first time, but I did. This video is therapeutic as shit

With regards to the God of War series coincidence, I think there were God of War games that were developed for the PSP in a Sony studio in Santa Monica. So maybe that could be connected or related to the coincidence.

I was just about to go to bed and thegamingmuse new video popped up! Love this stuff

Why am I not surprised that many problems with this game arose from Konami not giving a shit about their IPs, except how much money they can make off it?

They did a commendable job getting this game out and the fact that they went on to do Shattered Memories shows they had some pretty good chops to do the series justice.

I bought the OG Silent Hill day one and, to this day, Origins has always been my favorite to replay.

I really don't think Konami ever really cared about Silent Hill. They wanted the money the series generated without putting effort into it. I think you can see that from the very beginning, when Team Silent was made and left to their own devices. Great for the first few games since they didn't seem to have corporate oversight, but a nail in the coffin after the subsequent games performed poorer.

Origins was the first Silent Hill game I ever played back then when I didn't even know what Silent Hill was Origins made me fall in love with the series and became my overall favorite Silent Hill game, it's also a pretty underrated Silent Hill game in the franchise for being this good of a game (in my opinion) everyone mostly likes silent hill 1, 2 & 3 these days but Origins to me is a gem, thank you for making this video some of the things included in this video were things I didn't know about and I'm glad I do now!

Great video just the information that I was looking for thank you. I just started playing it.

Didn't knew that you where introduced to the series through the film, i knew about the series from the very first game when i was just a kid in the late 90's early 2000's, but didn't give it a shot until a few months ago, big mistake on my part skipping all those years, i'm a new fan too and really enjoy your channel because of it

You can tell the team really tried in Origins. I waited for the PS2 release, because I had no interest in the PSP. The mirror hopping was a little hokey, but they made the best of a bad situation. It does have one of my favorite enemies in Silent Hill...The Floating Halo man. You can see the metal halo contraption floating in space, and you can see only the shadow of the man wearing it. I didn't get past the asylum part, but I could tell that there was a level of care put into the game.

To me Origins is a fantastic game mostly due to how it emulates the gameplay of the first Silent Hill. It doesn’t really tell anything new, it has rather bland characters and voice acting and it doesn’t expand the Silent Hill lore, at least not significantly. But none of this ruins the overall experience. The core gameplay mechanics and atmosphere of Silent Hill are all here and they work perfectly. I see this game as an extention of Silent Hill 1, but without the plot and characters. It’s a very competent game.

Wow! What a video! I want to play Silent Hill Origins, now. I wonder why Konami just...don't want to create good games...

This was my first SH game EVER and it creeped tf out of me on our PSP (along with S.M) and I just love it! Hope it had better controls and a brighter screen though and I wish a remake or a PROPER HD remaster for this game 🤞🙏

wow didn't know about all this. Bravo to the dev team for not taking the easy route and trying their best.

I never finished this game, but love the song "O.R.T."!

I’ll tell you what happened, I bought it and had a blast.

Oh I love these 😀

I remember how hyped i was with the first trailer that used the SH3 song and still how time made me forget all about this game. It took them forever but while the game felt quiet simplistic in some areas (like the traveling between dark and foggy Silent Hill) this game wasnt too bad. Actually i think it was the best western SH game and thet one that matched the first games better. I never played the PS2 port toigh but in the PSP it was really impresive and bringed a lot of happynes to finally have a portable SH game.

lack of oversight for origins to me is one example in a long line of proof that at the corporate level, no one at konami cared about the silent hill IP.

Wow, so the story was glued together. That seems about right as things did feel disjointed, especially with how Alessa was used, mimicking the movie version more than the game.

Great video as always... actually got me wanting to replay the game.

I had a hell of a time playing this on console, you're basically forced to turn off every light in your house, or you just walking in the dark while throwing health drinks at people

What happened with Silent Hill: Origins? It shouldn't have

Gonna be haunted by how good the early concept trailer looked now

Be sure to play psp version. It runs a lot better than ps2 version.

Haven't watched yet, just feeding the algorithm. I want all Muse, all the time

This was a marvelous story.

0:24 - It was my introduction to the series, though I'm not one of those fanboys that cant see the continuity errors here, I personally imagine it as an alternate universe canon instead of the official canon, it allows me to enjoy it as its own thing, separate from the real Silent Hill story line, cause even with all its story flaws and stupid quick time event mashups "btw, a modder could outright disable those if they tried", I personally enjoy this game even to this day. :3

Yes, on the hole preparation H feels good.

Ngl, that monster that was a split animal on hooks would of been great to see.

I don't understand the hate origins get. This game don't try to do something crazy or change the formula of previous silent hill games, unlike the original version of it. I think they played it safe and it paid off. Regardless of its shortcomings, It did what it was meant to do very well, scare the shit out of you.

Personal Bookmark - 5:19

You have a soothing voice. 😄

11:10 so this is was the original psp game?!?!

My first silent hill game was origins on the psp

The sad thing is, I liked the early concepts. What they eventually showed, however, also included a hard crunch into what Konami wanted with every game from sh2 getting harder pushes toward action by konami execs. A need to focus heavily on the combat as it was the big demand Konami had. But all that development time and only that to show (as they didnt have the engine until super late) boded pretty poorly. I wonder what a story that happened around the same point in time, but didnt focus on shoehorning ties to the first game and let them happen more naturally...what would it have been? The woman in the mirror; Alessa's personality never really fit in Origins; too much movie Alessa, not enough PS1 Alessa.

I know people are gonna get butthurt when i said this but i wish they would have went third person but still survival horror

I like homecoming but its no SH4

Silent Hilll Origins on PSP is absolutely fantastic...on PSP, probably shouldn't have ever been released on a regular console

Silent Hill hates sinks

Origins is decent fanfic. It's nowhere near as good as the first four, but it has good stuff in it. I am shocked it worked at all given how bad things were behind the scenes.

What music is in the background

thanks

Silent hill oranges

Origins had potential, for a PSP game it looks pretty good and the overall experience is semidecent especially compared to every post team silent games. Main problem is the plot is just god damn awful, it's portrait of SH1 characters is very bad and the B plot about Travis parents/past baggage sounds interesting in paper but is not very well flesh out and it's an obvious (and bad) copy of SH2 story.

It's really great game. I used to hate it a lot but played it first time last year and liked it a lot. It's really good silent hill game, not the best one but good one indeed.

Silent Hill 5 and 7 are really pretty good games, silent hill 6 on the ps3 was a real dog though, not the kind in a control room either.

you said Nintendo would not give out Mario or Zelda without strict rules just asking but have you seen the Mario and Zelda CDI games that where made?

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I loved the 👽 🔫

i think origins gets a bad rep. i think it's the most soild "post tetralogy" game in the series. the only real issues i have with it are the combat, some mild otherworld preferences that i wish were fleshed out a bit more, an annoyance that the butcher was underutilized and the limitless inventory.

hears rules of thumb with resident evil and devil may cry. HA! funny.

Too much of grand piano tho 😅🙈

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The worst part of the series in terms of graphics and animation

Can’t tell if the person talking is a guy or girl lol

.... but all the games that came after sucked...! i hate western SH.

I actually just finished this game tonight. I personally loved it, especially its choice of worlds/environments. It has its flaws, but IMO this is the closest we got to another Silent Hill 2. It’s very unfairly underrated IMO. The name Origins itself is genius. It applies to both the story of the town in the series and its main character’s origins. I liked this game the hell of a lot more than 3. I’ve played 2 through origins so far, and 3 is by far my least favorite.