Finally, a Silent Hill game we’re interested in – it’s been a while too.
Silent Hill P.T. (otherwise known as ‘Playable Teaser’) for the PS4 was fairly simple in its execution but made use of a number of horror techniques that thrilled us into continuing on, and with bated breath we might add. Best of all, it concludes with a very short teaser trailer of what’s to come, Silent Hills – a collaborative project between Kojima Productions and Guillermo del Toro (of The Hobbit, Edge of Tomorrow, The Pacific Rim and Blade 2 fame).
Well, rather unfortunately, Silent Hills has been cancelled. That’s according to Konami themselves.
This was our reaction too *sniff*.
After squabbles and arguments between Kojima as well as his studio, Kojima Productions, and Konami, Silent Hills is no more. We’ve sort of expected it given del Toro’s recent statement that he was no longer collaborating with Kojima on the project. In fact, the moment Kojima’s name was pulled from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, we suspected this might happen.
In a statement to Kotaku, so consider this Konami’s official stance, they said:
Konami is committed to new Silent Hill titles, however the embryonic ‘Silent Hills’ project developed with Guillermo del Toro and featuring the likeness of Norman Reedus will not be continued.
In terms of Kojima and Del Toro being involved, discussions on future Silent Hill projects are currently underway, and please stay tuned for further announcements.”
We just hope it doesn’t mean more of the dreary nonsense they’ve been coming up with of late.
What we think really happened was that Del Toro suggested Kaijus as the primary antagonist for Silent Hills and Norman Reedus immediately demanded a Jaeger with a crossbow, and that perhaps it should be zombies – he did have more experience with zombies after all. Del Toro and Reedus finally settled on interdimensional (or is it intradimensional, or perhaps even extradimensional) super zombies and Kojima walked out.
This onset of madness and delirium is clearly as a result of a loss of a triple-A horror title that might have actually been scary for once. We guess we can dream about… erhm… having nightmares.
