Konami asked for more changes: producer of Silent Hill 2 remake made a surprise announcement

The advertising campaign for the remake of the cult horror game Silent Hill 2 from Polish studio Bloober Team is gaining momentum.

Last week two trailers were presented to the public, which divided the gamer community: some of them liked the updated version of the 2001 game, while others criticised almost all the elements of the remake and pointed out that it is a completely different game.

Many gamers accused Bloober Team in excessive departure from the original concept of the game and pursuit of modern trends, but the producer of the game Motoi Okamoto stood in defence of the Polish studio.

Here's What We Know

In an interview with Japanese publication Famitsu (which is difficult to translate, so there may be inaccuracies) Okamoto explained that the publisher Konami wanted much more revision of the game and asked Bloober Team to almost completely rethink Silent Hill 2. But the Polish developers insisted on taking the gentlest possible approach to updating the original game and leaving Silent Hill 2's story, narrative, and core gameplay mechanics intact.

Motoi Okamoto even stated that if the remake was made by a Japanese company, it would be completely different and more different from the original concept.

Producer said that in Silent Hill 2 Remake is a bet on the immersion of the player in the ongoing events, so the game has a minimum number of different elements of the interface, and those that are - you can disable, so that nothing distracted from the passage.

Okamoto emphasised that the trailers gave gamers the wrong impression that the new version of Silent Hill 2 has too many fights - it's not true. Even the first fight with the monster in the remake takes place much later than in the original.

It is noteworthy that Bloober Team, according to Okamoto, did not resort to the annoying element of the modern game industry and does not mark important objects and directions of movement conventional "yellow paint".

The producer's words can't but please Silent Hill fans, and what the updated game will be like - we can only guess and wait for its release.

When We Can Expect It

Silent Hill 2 Remake will be released on the 8th of October on PC and PlayStation 5.

Source: Famitsu