#HorrorNEWS a couple of Silent Hill stuff

 Decades without any Silent Hill news, suddenly a few SH projects all coming around the same time.

 Silent Hill: The Short Message Reveal Trailer (4K) | State of Play 2024 

 

Konami has announced a first-person Silent Hill game, The Short Message, will be free-to-play later today on PS5.

 Silent Hill 2 Remake - Gameplay Reveal Trailer | State of Play 2024 

Check out the latest Silent Hill 2 Remake trailer from the January Sony State of Play.

Still hyped for this one. But I'd rather see a new episode, the classic SH2 is still very much enjoyable and playable.

#Konami over-corrective course, #SILENTHILL are announced and revealed left and right! Still no #TeamSilent back...

So let me explain where it all started. Since Kojima's departure, Konami doesn't know what to do with their old classic beloved money-worth IPs. So they have been putting out Pachinko-machines branded with their classic franchises like Silent Hill. But as much money as a Pachinko slot machine can make, it is still only localized in only one place, Tokyo, Japan. 

Since the infamous release of the "Playable Teaser for Kojima's Silent Hills reboot", aka the game "P.T.", Silent Hill has become a big buzzword despite the series never being that huge in the mainstream audience's radar, usually selling less copies than the likes of Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, Outlast, or Dead Space. But critically it's a well-respected horror franchise (and one of my favs right next alone Alone in the Dark).

But thanks to the huge success of Capcom's recent Resident Evil sequels and remakes, and the continuous boom of indie horror titles, the horror genre has been slowing coming back to the forefront of gaming, kind of like the VS fighting genre did last generation around Street Fighter IV's release. And like the return of VS fighting genre came several classics, now the companies that have the rights for a lot of classics are starting to come out now that the genre is back and solidified. Case in point, the recently announced Alone in the Dark.

It had been rumored Konami was working on 3-4 Silent Hill projects to announce all back-to-back and hit the scene while the iron was red hot. And surprise, surprise, it's all true.

Everything.

#GamingNEWS Surprise! Suda51 X Swery69 Project: Hotel Barcelona! FK STRIKES AGAIN!

This end of October have come out with some of the best news of the year - to me personally.

A random Suda (Silver Case, Killer 7, No More Heroes,etc.) and Swery (Deadly Premoniation, Spy Fiction, D4,etc.) collaboration was braindstormed during a Q&A Panel. Then picked up some heat on twitter. Found a music composer, game publisher, etc. And even a surprise guest producer on the table.

They seem to know each other and be pretty close, reblogging each other's content on twitter and such. In fact I'd say their games have similar flavor, even if pretty different usually. A similar love to grindhouse/popculture/meta takes on typical action and adventure games.

The developers behind No More Heroes and Deadly Premonition are teaming up for a new horror game. https://t.co/7ld3BuZAeR pic.twitter.com/loF93OmjMe

— IGN (@IGN) October 23, 2019

 

Long story short, Suda and Swery have been working on a collaboration for a little while. They revealed it to the world recently.

Suda51 and Swery will discuss "their secret project" during an IGN Japan livestream on October 23, 19:00 JSThttps://t.co/pnSGfoGUZP

via https://t.co/w0gEJSq7G5 pic.twitter.com/0oIlyr77D1

— Nibel (@Nibellion) October 22, 2019

 

For now they've been calling this project "Hotel Barcelona". And it's going to be a survival horror title, because both haven't made a proper one so far but love the horror genre and have diped in it with some odd titles before (Michigan: Report from Hell, Shadows of the Damned, Extermination..)

Also Jukio Kallio(@jukiokallio is interested in making music for "Hotel Barcelona". It sounds good for me.@suda_51 @IGNJapan @kemta https://t.co/03P1eBDmU2

— SWERY69🎃 (@Swery65) October 23, 2019

 

During the infamous live Q&A panel, they texted other people and got Jukio Kallio for the music of Hotel Barcelona, as well as noneother than Silent Hill/Siren creator Keiichiro Toyama to join them on their indie horror collaborative project!

This is getting pretty epic!

They then got Devolver Digital interested in publishing the game, they're just jokingly waiting to see Swery pitch them the actual game we don't know a thing about so far.

Gonna need @SUDA_51 and @Swery65 to pitch us this mysterious game we’re supposedly publishing.

Name a time and place, gentlemen. https://t.co/duvQWVj1CO

— Devolver Digital (@devolverdigital) October 23, 2019

 

And that's where we are so far.
A collab with the creator of Silent Hill, a composer and publisher to go along.
This horror game has been developed for a while behind the scenes as an indie project. They got a budget set. The project's title might end up the name of the actual game.

Update: Suda51 and Swery are working together on an indie horror title, Hotel Barcelona

- Budget is $1m
- Published by Devolver Digital
- Inspired by Siren (Swery also mentioned David Lynch/Twin Peaks S3)
- Game is supposed to be "easy to pick up", possibly coming to mobile pic.twitter.com/MwfESarf1i

— Nibel (@Nibellion) October 23, 2019

  

And I can't wait to see my two favorite game devs make a game together! It's gonna be weird for sure. Fun. And play with the concept of what an horror game is no doubt. (And have some pop culture references and Twin Peaks inspiration, for sure.)

I can't wait to hear more from this epic project!!

#DeletedScenes P.T. / Silent Hills Concept Movie - TGS 2014

Sometimes I still wonder what Kojima's P.T./Silent Hills mighty have actually become. Aside from a great original creepy demo, it wasn't that Silent Hill-ysh, so you got to wonder how the final product might have represented the Silent Hill series...



Source: Courtesy from GameSpot .

VGR Silent Hill: Downpour

While I'm still having some issues with my computer, I was finally able at work today to prepare this review I illustrated last week.

Let's go back to SILENT HILL one more time and see if there's anything worth looking back!

 

Eyz Reviews several survival horror games, one terrifying entry at a time!

Alien: Isolation
Alone in the Dark - 2: One-Eyed Jack's Revenge - 3: Ghosts in Town
Alone in the Dark: Life is a Hideous Thing - The New Nightmare
Blue Stinger / Carrier / Cold Fear / Condemned: Criminal Origins / Cursed Mountain
Deadly Premonition / Deep Fear
Dead Space 1 - Downfall - Extraction - Aftermath - Dead Space 2
Dino Crisis / Disaster
Escape from Bug Island / Evil Dead: Hail to the King / Extermination / Hydrophobia / Illbleed
The Last of Us
Michigan: Report from Hell / Murdered: Soul Suspect
ObsCure 1 - 2 The Aftermath
RE0: Zero - Resident Evil - REmake - RE2 - RE3: NEMESIS - CODE: Veronica
RE4 - RE5 - Operation Raccoon City - RE6 - Revelations
Umbrella Chronicles - Darkside Chronicles
Shadows of the Damned
SH Origins - Silent Hill 1/Shattered Memories - SH2 - SH3 - SH4 The Room - Homecoming
Silent Hill (movie) - Revelation
The Suffering
Until Dawn

VGR New International Track & Field

Just in time for this year's 2016 Summer Olympics (well, I didn't want to wait until August to publish this!).

See a goth girl with purple hair compete against Pyramid Head and Sparkster from Rocket Knight!

Mascot platformers you ask? Check out the following reviews!

Aero the Acro-Bat - 2 / Astal / Bonk - 2 - 3 / BUG! - Too! / Clockwork Knight - 2
Crash Bandicoot 1 / Croc / Donkey Kong and DK Jr.
Earthworm Jim 1 - 2 - cartoon / Felix the Cat / Greendog / Konami Krazy Racers / Psycho Fox
Rayman - 2: The Great Escape - 3: Hoodlum Havoc - Origins
handheld Rayman games - The Animated Series
Rabbids Go Home

Rocket Knight Adventures - Sparkster - RKA2
Sonic 1 - (8 bit)
Tomba! - 2: The Evil Swine Return
Tempo - Jr. - Super Tempo / Tonic Trouble / Wild Woody / Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel

1PanelReview Konami Krazy Racers

Here's a little quickie I wanted to review before another Konami crossover title.

 

VGR Silent Hill: Homecoming

After a standalone portable prequel and a movie adaptation, the Silent Hill series was back on track with a proper follow-up installment.

Only this time, it was a much more straightforward sequel.

 

Eyz Reviews several survival horror games, one terrifying entry at a time!

Alone in the Dark - 2: One-Eyed Jack's Revenge - 3: Ghosts in Town
Blue Stinger / Carrier / Cold Fear / Condemned: Criminal Origins / Cursed Mountain
Deadly Premonition / Deep Fear
Dead Space 1 - Downfall - Extraction - Aftermath - Dead Space 2
Dino Crisis / Disaster
Escape from Bug Island / Evil Dead: Hail to the King / Extermination / Illbleed
ObsCure 1 - 2 The Aftermath
RE0: Zero - Resident Evil - REmake - RE2 - RE3: NEMESIS - CODE: Veronica
RE4 - RE5 - Operation Raccoon City - RE6 - Revelations
Umbrella Chronicles - Darkside Chronicles
Shadows of the Damned
SH Origins - Silent Hill 1/Shattered Memories - SH2 - SH3 - SH4 The Room
Silent Hill (movie) - Revelation
The Suffering
Until Dawn

#NerdTalk - Tank controls - do we need them back?

I already wrote a similar blog post about survival horror games once. So let's call this a companion-post.

TANK CONTROLS. Do we need them back?

Sad #Gaming NEWS! Silent Hills no more

About time I wrote this - Did you folks heard about Kojima being fired from Konami? Of course you heard that.

What a sad day it is. I mean, over the last few years, all my favorite gaming studios have either closed down (Neversoft, SNK..), been shut down (LucasArts, Sierra), forced to go under restructuration under new publishers (Sega-Sammy..) and basically been turned into something completely different from their former self (Capcom, and now Konami).

A lot of my favorite creators have left their respective studios (mostly at Capcom) to go form their own independent studios (those same guys now mostly at Platinum Games, Suda and his Grasshopper team, Yuji Naka with Prope, etc.).

But firing the guy that is sole responsible for the Metal Gear/Solid series? I'm not a big fan of the series, to be honest (to each their own), but even so I gotta recognize - you don't fire the creative mind behind the MGS series! Come on!

Anyways, this post was about Silent Hill. Obviously Del Toro and Norman Reedus finally confirmed the whole thing was not gonna happen. And now Konami confirmed the project is no more.

Silent Hills is dead.

I wasn't entirely fan of the idea, but it sounded like an original way to bring the series back to attention. And maybe it would be the best thing to happen to SH in ages. Apparently Konami will still continue to develop their own new SH games, but just not that one.

Aww...

Anyway, everyone who has access to the PSN should take this occasion to grab a copy of P.T. before it's too late.

Now that this is over, I would really like to see the franchise back in the hands of Team Silent. Or just get Climax back, they did great work on the few couple of games they did.

Source: Courtesy from destructoid.com.

VGR Silent Hill Origins

Before we turn our attention to the modern non-Team Silent Silent Hill episodes, let's have a look at the very under-appreciated prequel not everyone heard of.

 

Eyz Reviews several survival horror games, one terrifying entry at a time!

Alone in the Dark - 2: One-Eyed Jack's Revenge - 3: Ghosts in Town
Blue Stinger / Carrier / Cold Fear / Condemned: Criminal Origins / Cursed Mountain
Deadly Premonition / Deep Fear
Dead Space 1 - Downfall - Extraction
Dino Crisis / Disaster
Escape from Bug Island / Evil Dead: Hail to the King / Illbleed
ObsCure 1 - 2 The Aftermath
RE0: Zero - Resident Evil - REmake - RE2 - RE3: NEMESIS - CODE: Veronica
RE4 - RE5 - Operation Raccoon City - RE6
Umbrella Chronicles - Darkside Chronicles
Silent Hill 1/Shattered Memories - SH2 - SH3 - SH4 The Room
Silent Hill (movie) - Revelation
The Suffering

#MusicBOX - Silent Hill Game - Theme Acapella

VGR Silent Hill 4: The Room

Let's mark the 10th anniversary Silent Hill 4 with this special review, with a little delay - and I'm probably one of those few people that probably will want to celebrate the ten years of this episode.

Some people believe this game didn't start as part of the Silent Hill series, but it was always meant to be a Silent Hill game. Only it was originally going to be a spinoff title, and not part of the numeral series while an actual Silent Hill 4 was being developed in parallel. It's kinda funny how not only did The Room end up part of the main series but also both the last numbered Silent Hill entry AND Team Silent's last game in the franchise.

 

Eyz Reviews several survival horror games, one terrifying entry at a time!

Alone in the Dark - 2: One-Eyed Jack's Revenge - 3: Ghosts in Town
Blue Stinger / Carrier / Cold Fear / Cursed Mountain
Deadly Premonition / Deep Fear
Dead Space 1 - Downfall - Extraction
Dino Crisis / Disaster
Escape from Bug Island / Evil Dead: Hail to the King / Illbleed
ObsCure 1
RE0: Zero - Resident Evil - REmake - RE2 - RE3: NEMESIS - CODE: Veronica
RE4 - RE5 - Operation Raccoon City - RE6
Umbrella Chronicles - Darkside Chronicles
Silent Hill 1/Shattered Memories - SH2 - SH3
Silent Hill (movie) - Revelation

#FanFilmFriday - The Loneliness of Pyramid Head

Emotionally powerful and moving!

MR Silent Hill: Revelation

It looked so promising... but ended up being just somewhat adequate.

 

Eyz Reviews several survival horror games, one terrifying entry at a time!

Alone in the Dark - 2: One-Eyed Jack's Revenge - 3: Ghosts in Town
Blue Stinger / Carrier / Cold Fear / Cursed Mountain
Deadly Premonition / Deep Fear
Dead Space 1 - Downfall - Extraction
Dino Crisis / Disaster
Escape from Bug Island / Evil Dead: Hail to the King / Illbleed
ObsCure 1
RE0: Zero - Resident Evil - RE2 - RE3: NEMESIS - CODE: Veronica
RE4 - RE5 - Operation Raccoon City - RE6
Umbrella Chronicles - Darkside Chronicles
Silent Hill 1/Shattered Memories - SH2 - SH3
Silent Hill (movie)

MR Silent Hill (movie)

Welcome to Silent Hill

Enjoy your stay.

 

Eyz Reviews several survival horror games, one terrifying entry at a time!

Alone in the Dark - 2: One-Eyed Jack's Revenge - 3: Ghosts in Town
Blue Stinger / Carrier / Cold Fear / Cursed Mountain
Deadly Premonition / Deep Fear
Dead Space 1 - Downfall - Extraction
Dino Crisis / Disaster
Escape from Bug Island / Evil Dead: Hail to the King / Illbleed
ObsCure 1
RE0: Zero - Resident Evil - RE2 - RE3: NEMESIS - CODE: Veronica
RE4 - RE5 - Operation Raccoon City - RE6
Umbrella Chronicles - Darkside Chronicles
Silent Hill 1/Shattered Memories - SH2 - SH3

VGR Silent Hill 3

Seventeen years ago, Harry Mason thought he had defeated a mysterious cult in the resort town of Silent Hill.

Now, the sins of the father will be visited upon by his "daughter"...

 

Eyz Reviews several survival horror games, one terrifying entry at a time!

Alone in the Dark - 2: One-Eyed Jack's Revenge - 3: Ghosts in Town
Blue Stinger / Carrier / Cold Fear / Cursed Mountain
Deadly Premonition / Deep Fear
Dead Space 1 - Downfall - Extraction
Dino Crisis / Disaster
Escape from Bug Island / Evil Dead: Hail to the King / Illbleed
ObsCure 1
RE0: Zero - Resident Evil - RE2 - RE3: NEMESIS - CODE: Veronica
RE4 - RE5 - Operation Raccoon City - RE6
Umbrella Chronicles - Darkside Chronicles
Silent Hill 1/Shattered Memories - SH2

#Gaming NEWS! Silent Hills TGS 2014 trailer

Here's a "concept movie" Konami released at this year's TGS.

It's sort of a concept for what their "playable teaser" P.T. turned out to be.



And it's somehow much better and creepier than the actual thing! Giant "Titan"-esque monster in the corridor, creepy hands coming out of the walls, etc. Woah! I hope the actual game will have stuff like that running in-game!

Can't wait to see how the actual horror game from Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro will turn out like. (Hopefully they ditch the first person perspective, what with every single new horror game already using that gimmick nowadays... plus why hire a popular actor only to hide his face in the final product?)

VGR Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams

Time to go back... to the town of Silent Hill!

 

Eyz Reviews several survival horror games, one terrifying entry at a time!

Alone in the Dark 2: One-Eyed Jack's Revenge
Blue Stinger / Carrier / Cold Fear / Cursed Mountain
Deadly Premonition / Deep Fear
Dead Space 1 Extraction
Dino Crisis / Disaster
Escape from Bug Island / Evil Dead: Hail to the King / Illbleed
ObsCure 1
RE0: Zero Resident Evil RE2 RE3: NEMESIS CODE: Veronica RE4 RE5
Operation Raccoon City Umbrella Chronicles Darkside Chronicles
Silent Hill 1/Shattered Memories

#EyzTalks - Survival Horror land

Today let's talk about a genre I love. Survival Horror!

I'm a fan of the genre... but even so I have to admit... Most of the genre's iconic series have gone completely off rails nowadays... like all the creators left, the teams changed every game and barely anyone who created those first games are still working on the new installments (which is exactly what has happened). Yes. People seem to have forgotten what most of these classic games have been about.

And now producers are forcing studios to churn in random generic games to conform to whatever is popular and selling now.. instead of, say, simply make new games.

A Silent Hill game shouldn't look or feel like a Resident Evil game and both should neither play to be Alone in the Dark. They all have their own strengths and their own spin of the genre.

How far from their respective original movie template have they gone these last few years?