Once an undisputed pillar of the burgeoning survival horror genre, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Silent Hill hasn’t really been relevant for more than a decade at this point. Konami seems to treat the series the same way Valve treats the number three. That said, recent rumors have suggested that . Though such rumors are disputed and apparently outright denied by Konami itself, speculation continues to run rampant. However, the question remains: do we still want a new Silent Hill installment?
For old school horror fans, the answer is likely a resounding “yes.” As previously mentioned, it has been far too long since Silent Hill had a meaningful release, the last bonafide entry havinꦡg dropped in 2012, and the last numbered title having released all the way back in 2004. With the series experimenting with remakes, odd spin-offs, ൩and then fizzling out altogether, fans have been starved for new games for quite some time. At this point, most are likely to take anything aside from a pachinko machine.
Additionally, Capcom’s recent 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil remakes have proven exactly how successful the genre can be in the modern gaming climate. 2019’s Resident Evil 2 was a phenomenal reimagining of the PlayStation original which won many Game of the Year awards, and, while 2020’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil 3 rebirth was slightly underwhelming by most accounts, it was still a welcome new addition to the decades-long series. The original Silent Hill game, which debuted three years after the first Resident Evil title, would sell gangbusters were it remade in a similar fashion, and it would doubtlessly re-ignite the series much as Resident Evil 7 did for its franchise.
Additionally, the 2014 P.T. demo proved exactly how horrifically impactful a new Silent Hill game could be. A mere snippet of what could have been, P.T. could be completed in something like half an hour — provided the player knew exactly which steps to take — but the overall experience was so memorable that people are still playing and buzzing about it nearly six years after release. Again, we’d like to emphasize that P.T. went down as one of the series’ highest points, and it was a freakin’ demo! The fact that we’ll probably never see Kojima’s Silent Hills project fully realized is a catastrophe equal to that of the 2013 Xbox One reveal, but the continued interest in the enigmatic playable teaser proves that a new Silent Hill game is long overdue.
That said, though we’d love to see a new release, there’s one major hurdle standing in the way: Konami. The once-beloved publisher doesn't have the best track record these days. Outside of some remarkably well received 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Castlevania and Contra ports — which it outsourced to another studio, by the way — everything they’ve done in the last five years has been nothing short of a trainwreck. Few have forgotten the absolute travesty that was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metal Gear Survive, and the utterly awful Contra Rouge Corps will be tough to live down. Additionally, most of Konami's recent focus seems to be on the Japanese gambling scene, and we’re imagining that precisely zero Western horror fans were interested in their Silent Hills-themed pachinko machine.
With that in mind, it may just be time to forget about Silent Hill. It’s been fun, but we’re not sure that we want to risk another IP mauling at the hands of a publisher that clearly isn't interested in single-player horror. Of course, similar sentiments were once held regarding the Resident Evil franchise after Capcom pushed out the lackluster 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Call of Duty wannabe that was RE 6, so, perhaps there could be a light at the end of this long, dreary tunnel. Yet, as much as we’d love to see Silent Hill make a triumphant return, and as much as we’d like to believe that the , it may🍎, at this point, be best♌ to move on. There was a hole here. It’s gone now.