The state of Silent Hill 2 remake 

I’m not worried because nothing will ever replace the original. :)

I think they just need to fix the animations and sound effects. That's my only gripe so far. They need to make the movement a little more realistic. Some haters are saying this looks like a combat-fest, there's literally at most 3 enemies on screen at once. It's a combat trailer! Clips of combat are edited together, it doesn't take a genius to realize that. Besides that, the mechanics are basically like the original game. You shoot things, you hit things with a stick. Just different means of doing those actions.

I love the entitled fans who shat themself with aggression because a total of 4 minutes have been shown of a game (that is far from done) do not match the image they had from the game after seeing 14 3 hour video essays about it. The ones who have actually played the original game should know that gatekeeping is exactly why we have not had a new game in 12 years. It''s not like Bloober is holding you at gunpoint forcing you to play this.

It's refreshing to see more and more giving nuanced opinions about the remake. I've played the games since i bought a used PS2 with SH2 and SH3 back in like 03. Experienced most of what the franchise has to offer, weird spinoffs and IDW graphic novels included. The OG games have insanely bad game mechanics so letting people jump on the series with a game that is more accessible is a good thing. Of all the people discovering the games through YT editorials, i honestly think that a majority would not even play through any of the games because they have aged so poorly. Not sure Bloober will make a perfect job, but if they at least try to redo what they did with Medium, but actually making it scary. I'd be content with just that. I'm just glad at this point that we get new Silent Hill games. I don't think the remake will be actionbased, but some people tend to forget that A LOT of the four first games have way to much emphasis on combat overall, and most of those encounters could barely be evaded. If Bloober made the action sequences hard and unforgiving i'd be ok with that.

As a sh2 veteran that watched every single analystic video about it out there, this remake looks great, i have no complaints, nothing will replace the original ever, but for a remake it looks great

Great vid man, this is exactly how I feel about it. I was worried about the sounds at first too, but the sound designer at Bloober confirmed that that’s just a result of it being mixed with the loud music. That’s not how it’ll actually sound. So I’m not worried about a single thing now, and I never exactly was. really hyped for this!

I can tell that you are actually a silent hill fan and not a wannabe. I've been playing silent hill sense the day the first game came out. I'm glad that an actual fan is speaking on the subject.

How is it, all the "big" channels dumping the SH2 trailer and shit on SH The Message while several "smaller" channels are much more fair in their review?!

There are rumors swirling that the "combat trailer" was made from an earlier build of the game back in early 2023. If so, the game's development is much farther ahead and near final stages. Looks like it was a calculated move to get fan reactions and feedback. Also, it's Konami who decides on releasing updated trailers and even release dates, not Bloober. Konami would be wasting a perfect year to release SH2 Remake since it will be a quiet year for Resident Evil. With Alone in the Dark Remake arriving in March 2024, there is no other major horror game along the way from there up to December 2024. September to December 2024 should be the ideal release window for SH2 Remake.

There is a good chance that this game will improve a lot. The fans are contacting the studio and giving them feedback and they respond back. They recently showed a small clip of James holding a gun and it looks much better than that trailer. Regarding the audio, the sound manager responded that due to the compression of the trailer it sounds ugly but we can trust that in the final game it sounds better. It shows that it is still in the development phase. so it means that they are polishing a lot until the release of the game. For me, it comes out next year and I receive a high-quality product.

Bloober team is making this happen. People been bashing them since October 22. I’m still excited new hardware more people get to try this game. They should have remade the first one but whatever. Part 3 is the best btw

i have faith in this remake. people just want to bring it down because it’s made by bloober. i think they’re doing a great job so far. they just need to polish it.

The original voice actors will most likely not return. Guy Cihi (the voice of James), have mentioned in passing after the initial announcement that no one have contacted him and after the HD Collection incident he certainely don’t want to work with or for Konami again. Long story short, witheld residuals, Konami blamed him that the performance of James was not as they planned. The issue is that Konami wanted ”real” voice actors, they just not wanted to give budget for it. For the project to go around Team Silent hired more or less the first people they found who spoke native english and somewhat fluent in Japanese. Guy has said this a few times, it’s also mentioned in the official documentary that came with the game in some regions. With the HD Collection they were planning to scrap the old VO’s for Silent Hill 2 and 3. The problem is that the performers had in their contracts that they own their own voice work and mocap recordings. Konami wanted to use the mocap without paying the actors. Shitstorm from fans and the actors ensued. Ended up having the OG and a new voice track for SH2 in the HD collection. But the original VO’s for SH3 was never implemented. It’s also Konamis fault that the Hd Collection turned out as it did, the company that did the port was greylisted for a while, they redeemed themselfs when they patched the game for a while after the release, without Konami giving a shit so the devs patched the ports for free.

Finally, somebody who makes and has the same opinion as I do. I was going to do a video on this. I love Silent Hill, and I understand where people are upset. But this is 2024, we cannot expect team silent to continue to use tank controls. Or team Bloober. How else would you do over the shoulder combat? I thought the trailer was decent. I think the new cinematics truly show how desperate James is, like when he starts crying because the key was kicked away from him. And in that moment you can see how detrimental his situation is. And maybe I'm biased and I got this premise in the original game. But it's just exacerbated to the point it cannot be ignored. I believe through this way a-lot more people can perceive the game the way it was intended to be.

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This Silent Hill 2 Remake is still exciting.

The only thing that really concerns me, other than the over the shoulder perspective (which is not a huge deal, but I would have loved to see them stick with the cinematic camera angles), is the "Reap what you sow" line written on the wall. Silent Hill is a subtle franchise, that kind of blatant foreshadowing is a joke. Anyways, I disagree that combat was not an integral part to the game. I always find myself with a plethora of ammunition, and rarely run from encounters, even on higher difficulties. Compared to the RE trilogy, the game gives you tons of ammo, and enemies aren't nearly as dangerous. They can't grab you, they die much faster, and you actually have a useful melee weapon, unlike in RE trilogy. Even Silent Hill 1 discouraged combat far more, with the overworked being plagued by the bird and dog enemies, which are much harder to fight effectively than the lying figures in SH2, due to their hit and run tactics and hiding in the fog. This is actually something I think 1 does much better than 2. Even though the Lyomg Figures are far more disturbing to look at than the generic dog and bird enemies in 1, they're not nearly as threatening because they just aren't as mobile or intelligent in their attacks.

Yeah the sounds aren't all that great but the mechanics look like they'd feel like the original, what made the original so scary was the feeling of uncomfortability and lack of mobility it gave you fear and anxiety kept you on your toes .... nobody complained about that in the RESI remakes so to me it's like people wanna sh*t on this game just to do it._.

I'm very optimistic and absolutely love what they showed. I wasn't expecting much (I was expecting combat, but that doesn't mean it had to be jaw dropping. Just the option to fight, and I'm glad its here!). But they blew my mind with the atmosphere. If there's one thing I ALWAYS have to give credit to Bloober team, they KNOW how to use Unreal properly, and the fog and armosphere looks great. Only concern I have is (which can be cleared by a gameplay clip) how the radio is going to work. What made the original scary about not knowing whats around the corner was that rooms load, so you never know whats behind them and you'd dread opening a door you haven't explored because as soon as you went in, the radio would go off and you'd be attacked. If there are no loading screens behind doors (which makes sense, its modern mechanics), how will the radio give that same "scare" factor of entering unexplored areas? Or will it be like Skyrim where you know an enemy is around and you gotta hunt for them if you want to refrain from being surprised? I don't know, but I have full faith that Bloober, Ito and Yamaoka know what they are doing and I can't wait for more.

I didn’t even know Silent Hill had combat most of the time. I just ignored the enemies or avoided them. It was mostly about the scares and the creepy atmosphere the OG had

Im hoping this game succeeds so that the other games can potentially get the remake treatment to, especially 1 and my favorite, 4

Im not worried about this game. Its mainly the combat and sound design that needs the most tweakin so far. Everything else looks pretty good to me

Im not worried either, the devs already confirmed the sound in the combat trailer was just badly mixed and they wanted to focus on the music more and thus the gun sounds are quiet and the frequencies get lost in the music. The first trailers athmosphere gave me goosebumps! It looks soo good. I only saw the Movie from 2006 and its my favourite horror movie ever. Cant wait for that remake even tho i never play horror games and might have a difficult time playing it but its almost as if me myself gets called to silent hill to explore thatabandoned place :D Remakes never are better than Originals, so i think we get a decent silent hill game in perfectly polished graphics as a next gen experience and for that im really grateful.

i just want my friends and family to enjoy it too, most people won't play a 20 year old game so it's nice to have a remake, even if it won't be perfect.

People are really letting a few minor things get in the way of the bigger picture

For me don't care for what other thinks i am excited for this!

I just hoped, they changed the sound of the bullets, also the facial expression of James, but overall I'm excited for the remake!

I think it's a mistake to assume that SH2 needs to "adapt" to the style of action/horror games (Resident Evil, Dead Space, The Evil Within, The Last of Us, etc) that have nothing to do with Silent Hill. The "action" in SH2 is an office clerk swinging a pipe/wood and running out of breath. A modern version of that would be similar to the mechanics in Forbidden Siren, not Dead Space or Resident Evil. That trailer had enemy hoards, Origins QTEs, button mashing prompts as blood splashes the screen, monsters sidestepping gunshots, Nurses vaulting over ledges to kick some James Sunderland ass (Masahiro Ito even liked a tweet complaining about it on Twitter), diet Resident Evil and TLOU gameplay, Saw-style atmosphere and jumpcuts, and just generally botched the tone of SH2. People need to re-evaluate what they mean when they say SH2 has "bad combat" if they think action/horror gameplay is "fixing" it. Having fun fighting some monsters isn't why the defensive combat is there. You're not supposed to feel "satisfied" beating a manifestation of your wife with a plank. _______________________________________________ >**PSM: Why did you create such an ordinary main character rather than using a tough "commando" type?** > >**Keiichiro Toyama:** Again because the modern horror essence was the key to the game. The main character is not a hero, nor is he a strong willed person. He has and keeps his morals, but he is really just a plain, normal person. His motions, such as swinging around his items and trying to catch his breath after running, falling on climbing the stairs, etc. are not very cool or heroic, but after a while, it would be easier for a player to project himself or herself to the main character. ____ >**Did you have any particular influence with regard to those cinematic camera angles?** > >**Keiichiro Toyama:** In order to give the game a feeling of a real world, but an unbalanced world, we took influences from David Lynch, Cronenberg, that cinematic style. > >**What do you think of other horror games, like Resident Evil?** > >**Keiichiro Toyama:** Resident Evil 2, in particular, put aside the horror a bit and went very "Hollywood." It focused on the action, and felt more like an action movie than a horror game. We wanted to go back to the roots of what horror is supposed to be about. We want to make you scared on an instinctive level. ___ >**Masahiro Ito:** Sorry, I don't have interest in war veteran as a protagonist (in a horror game title) very much. I love the film Jacob's Ladder though. I think that protagonist who is not trained for combat is suitable for horror game. _____ >**Akihiro Imamura:** After the underwhelming response Silent Hill 4 got, we've been gathering opinions from everywhere to make sure we come back strong with the next installment. Sometimes the most vocal opinions, for example the desire for more battles, are not always the best ones, especially for a series like this. We wanted more melee combat in SH4, but realized from fan reaction that there was just too much action, regardless of it being melee or not. That kind of action doesn't make the atmosphere creepy anymore, but kind of ______________________________ >**Akira Yamaoka & Akihiro Immamura (SH4 Post Mortem):** With the SILENT HILL series, we had the policy of not displaying any gauges or icons on the game screen to enable players to become immersed in the world of horror.

I just hope they add the classic camera angles for the old fans ❤

The stuff that people were complaining about in The silent Hill 2 trailer I really don't care about the combat looks perfectly fine to me people keep saying that silent Hill 2 remake is like a resident evil 2 remake clone that's a bad thing but also a good to me

I finished the original game yesterday and I agree with what you are saying. The game has little to nothing to do with combat. It is not a combat game. If they can nail the atmosphere and also make engaging in combat an option which the player would dread then it will make the game brilliant.

We all know that SH3 was the best and scariest one made.

If we put the combat aside and focus on the other things, the trailers become even more concerning. The character of James feels and acts very different, long gone is the creepy atmosphere and the limited dark and foggy visibility, some key moments storywise seem very different in tone, there is no subtlety in the environmental storytelling or the visual cues from the wall writings to the beat corpse or the puzzles and key items we've seen so far... I not too hopeful but we'll see. I think it'll be passable for newcomers and awful to the hardcore fans who appreciate the nuances of the original

It's probably better that the guns don't feel or sound powerful. You're meant to feel overwhelmed in a SH game, with combat being a last resort, or at least very costly on resources. Having your weapons feel weaker could add to that feeling. I'm more worried about the environments being bigger with wider corridors in Woodside apts. Might take away the claustrophobic atmosphere.

This is a healthy approach, meanwhile ppl are afraid of the remake completely deleting the original sh from existence once it comes out and they wreck havoc because of that...

I'm not worry bc 20 years already happen, at least they want to bring something to the party, anyway Kojima will do a terror game as well, so if either this, or that. And fans who complained about combat, lol, apparently they want a walk simulator after all, since combat is not important for this game, according to their complains, lol. There is a fact that they forgot, The Mist is the main inspiration for this game, in that story, the people fought against the creatures, they didn't just solved puzzles, and wait that some magic force to help them. Even we got Thomas Jane as the lead, the same actor of Punisher.

I'm a silent hill series fan and bought SH2 day one, and I liked the latest trailer. The only thing I didn't like was the walking and door opening animations. They looked generic like a Sims game. Other things I really liked, even the combat.

Me no like camera. James melee animations have noticeable issues. Quick times are ass. In the teaser trailer James sounds meh but Mary kinda sounds similar to the og. Scenery graphics look amazing. They better not force the player to fight the enemies that would completely destroy the game.

...The main worry is NOT the combat, it's that the characters won't be true to the original. That's because of how James looks already in the first trailers, instead of making him dissociated and currently escaping from the reality of his situation he looks very engaged and emotional since the mirror scene, which is a huge misinterpretation of the character already. I'm 100% not trusting this and it's not the damn combat, if you ever played even one of these games you know no one gives a damn about that, we're not in Resident Evil.

People want this remake to fail, out of pure hatred for Konami, and because they're obsessed with the idea of Bloober being a "mid" studio. I loved The Medium and Observer. I know that they can make a polished game with an amazing atmosphere. I'm not worried about it at all. On top of that, it's so funny seeing countless people call the combat "clunky". Like, seriously? Did ANY of these people play Silent Hill 1-4? The combat was clunky in every game they praise. I can guarantee if they kept the original combat, these same people would be complaining just as much. If they make the combat too good, they'll just whine that it "ruins the atmosphere. There's nothing Bloober can do to please these crying children.

Story, atmosphere, soundtrack make the game. Combat in sh2 was like stand there hit or shoot the monster 15times with the same attack untill it's finally dead without it hitting you once. wasn't anything special. the game is one of my all time favourites but there are things that wouldnt work as good in a modern remake imo. Id recommend to download the enhanced version of the game since its abandonware and replay it. maybe the rose-tinted glasses fall off for some people when it comes to certain critique points

People shouldn't be worried in general. It's a game. A remake. If you love the original, play the original. That whole combat trailer nonsense just made me lose respect for the fan base. Fans dunno what they want, they will just bitch just to bitch. And the game is not even out yet.

Combat mechanics can be improved. Doesn't matter how janky the OG was. I don't have faith in Bloober though so I'm not expecting much.

The sounds were fine, idk what people are crying about. Did they not play silent hill 2 original? because thats how it sounded.

thank you, the only positive video on the trailer. You explained why we shouldn’t be worried. You sir get a sub😎

As long as the game is dark creepy an twisted that want makes silent hill games not the combat😅

I admire your enthusiasm, but I'm afraid this Remake isn't going to be any good...

I think it looks great. Devs already clarified the gunshots were muted for the trailers music

" why i'm not worried " cus you don't care, like me

I think most people don't worry about the weapons/fighting looking too bad, at least i don't. But IT IS rather worrying that they make their second trailer a COMBAT trailer. Why would they focus and that, when the core of this game are the story, characters, atmosphere and locations? I just hope they don't throw in more enemies just to make the game longer.

Bloober team is keeping true to what made the original a masterpiece? 😂I have to disagree. Seeing the nurse enemies acting just like straight up human enemies and even the dead guy being shown nearly full on in the fridge. They are certainly not keeping true to what made the original a masterpiece. Bloober lacks any knowledge of subtlety. You can clearly see thag in the trailer. Sht they even seem to have moved Mary's dress from the mannequin to a dumb closet puzzle. 🤦‍♂️

3 minutes video for the reason you do not worry. 1.5 minute misinformation, 30 seconds personal opinion. NO, TEAM SILENT WAS NOT FORMED BY PEPOPLE WHO FAILED OTHER PROJECTS. This is literally never confirmed, there is no official source for this, and team silent members even denies this rumor. Also the "combat was not good in the og" is a recycled opinion that misses the point. We are suppose to get a remake to get improvement of graphics and gameplay. OG is 22 years old stop creating excuses to defend the garbage combat. Remakes are for a reason, we can't just lower the nowdays standards because some people can't stand critique. 3 minutes video opinion without giving reason, facts or common sense.

Getting rid of Kojima was a big W from Konami. Time has come and people understood that lol

Are they copying resident evil? The game is very combat heavy based on the trailer while silent hill was never about that. Silent hill is more about the atmosphere, characters, puzzles and stories

lol you should be VERY worried

A Silent Hill 2 remake without the original cameras is dead on arrival

Me when I've never played a single Silent Hill game in my life but I want content slop for the trough like a good little piggy:

This trailer looks like crap. Cancel and restart development with a Japanese team, please.

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