The director of the unique Silent Hill 2 has expressed his pleasure concerning the upcoming survival horror remake.
The brand new title, which hits PS5 and PC on Tuesday, has been developed by Bloober Workforce, the Polish studio behind The Medium, Layers of Worry and Blair Witch.
Not like the mounted digicam system within the 2001 unique, the remake adopts an over-the-shoulder perspective.
Writing on X, unique Silent Hill 2 director Masashi Tsuboyama singled this out as a key purpose he’s excited to play the sport.
“Video games and know-how are consistently evolving, leading to vital variations in constraints and ranges of expression,” he mentioned. “This can be a widespread subject with media arts normally, however it isn’t straightforward to keep up and admire the setting of the time.
“I believe the worth of the remake is {that a} new era can play it. As a creator, I’m very pleased about it. It’s been 23 years! Even if you happen to don’t know the unique, you may simply benefit from the remake as it’s. Whether or not it’s good or dangerous doesn’t have an effect on the unique.”
Tsuboyama added: “The factor to notice is the change in digicam (perspective). The change in playable digicam has a big impression on many points, fight, degree design, artwork creation, and so forth. Whereas the impression on the story could also be comparatively small, it brings an enormous change to the playfeel of the sport.
“To be sincere, I’m not happy with the playable digicam from 23 years in the past. Depth and angle have been restricted by the processing load. It was a steady means of exhausting work that was not rewarded. However that was the restrict.
“The over-the-shoulder view undoubtedly provides to the sense of realism. In different phrases, it makes me need to attempt taking part in the much more immersive remake of Silent Hill 2!!!”
The brand new recreation has been properly acquired by critics, incomes it scores of 87 (PS5) and 86 (PC) on evaluation aggregation website Metacritic.
“Silent Hill 2 is a skilfully dealt with retelling of one of many medium’s most liked survival horror video games,” in accordance with VGC’s evaluation. “It stays trustworthy to the unique (to a fault at instances) however breathes sufficient new life into it to concurrently be certain that long-time followers will admire the respect proven, whereas newcomers gained’t discover it antiquated.”
