After a series of rumors about Konami’s Silent Hill over the years, perhaps that has now come true.
What do you think if one day not far Konami will release the official trailer for his pet Silent Hill. That is probably always what any of us are looking forward to. It must be said that this is the most fateful game series ever, nearly ten years have passed and the game series has not yet found a voice to return to compete with rivals. Although junior games keep coming out and achieving their own success.
Konami has recently made moves that make viewers think that they are eager to revive this brand. As discovered by a Reddit user, the brand renewal updates Silent Hill, Gradius, Frogger, The Water Margin, and Tokimeki Memorial were released by the Japanese patent office on March 15 through Chizai-watch .
While these could simply be routine trademark updates or periodic renewals and are not indicative of any new product plans, multiple sources said in October that multiple versions The Silent Hill game is in development at external studios after Konami made the recent decision to revive its classic franchises.
Some people believe that at least 1 project has been assigned to a Japanese game development studio in 2021 that is still quietly developing. And last February, Bloober Team, the developer behind the Medium game said they were working on a brand new horror IP from a popular Japanese game publisher, fueling speculation that they were working on it. work on a new horror game IP.
The creator of the Silent Hill franchise recently said that it would be harder to remake a Silent Hill title than a Resident Evil title “because its gameplay is completely difficult to adapt to the new era and they have to be find a suitable direction”.
Keiichiro Toyama, who left Sony last year to found Bokeh Game Studio, explains: “This is not an action game where you can only fine-tune the action as in Biohazard. To change the gameplay of Silent Hill to match the standards of current gamers or to improve the graphics to satisfy the player’s eyes will probably be a very difficult thing.”
Even so, gamers still believe and lean towards the possibility that Silent Hill Remake is completely being developed in silence. However, it hasn’t been announced yet. And many gamers believe even more when behind this project there is also the hand of Hideo Kojima involved. What do you think if Silent Hill revived under the development and supervision of Kojima?