Well, I hope it's not an April Fool's Joke. There's a Nintendo Power cover to win you doubters over.
This Silent Hill game is not a remake or a port, but a re-imaging of the first game. Uh-oh. Maybe it's not so bad, though. GoNintendo has some quotes from the magazine, and from what we see here, things sound pretty interesting.
The characters play different roles, things don’t necessarily happen in the same order, and the story is taken in lots of new directions. You still play as Harry Mason, you’re still looking for your daughter, and you’ll see familiar elements, but they’re all twisted to betray your expectations.
The text goes on to say that you determine how the game unfolds with your actions. “In Silent Hill games, the town always gets inside the protagonist’s head,” says producer Tomm Hulett. “But now, it’s getting inside YOUR head.”
And it's a Wii game, so expect some Wii Remote action. It seems that the in-game puzzles will use some waggle, so you're "not just hitting buttons to choose things.”
Finally, for those who hate the locked doors in the Silent Hill games, it seems that they're done with that in this new game: “Longtime fans of the series will also be delighted to learn that there’s a way through every locked door; no more checking dozens of entrances only to find that 90% of them are permanently barred shut.”
I'm intrigued. And worried. One thing's for sure: it sure can't look worse than the original Silent Hill on PS1, can it?
Contest:
4:05 PM on 04.01.2009
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I don't understand the deal with the doors though. I mean, the reason it was like that is because they just wanted to have a "realistic" amount of doors, but there's no way you could or would want a relevant amount of content behind them all. So they either are just going to remove a lot of doors from the game, or there is going to be a lot of tedious door opening to find anything important...
I always thought a remake WOULD be cool to see though.
It seems as though Climax, maker of Silent Hill: Origins, is on coding duty for this one.
The new A Boy and His Blob game is a re-imagining. The core story and gameplay is identical to the original, but it's so much more. That game hasn't been released yet so we can't know for sure how different it will be, but I have a better example: Donkey Kong for the Game Boy. You play the four levels from the original arcade game then you are told that those were just tutorial levels and you have a hundred new levels to play, all with wildly different mechanics from the original arcade version.
It's just a shameless plug at getting more sales.
"If we add elements of the story and characters from the original, I can finally retell the story of Silent Hill using my fan fiction as a guide!"
To digress a little, this is exactly why I don't want a FF7 remake. Crisis Core was OK and I enjoyed it to an extent, but it was full of unnecessary pretentious crap that kind of spoilt the origin back story for me.
I just hope I'm wrong and this is just a bad case of Nerd Rage.
AMERICANS RUIN EVERYTHING.
It's better than nothing, I guess.
I´ll say just two things: The resident evil remake for gamecube and Eternal Darkness...
I have a Wii now and more games on it than on my PS3... sorry graphic whores, but the so called "next gen" failed to impress me...
Of course, the game can be a huge crap but Climax did a good job with Origins and they probably learned with Homecoming mistakes... so...
(I can imagine using the wiimote as the flashlight and listening the white noise from the controller little speakers...)
Im OK isn't off base.
It's weird though, because I know Colette is interested in Cursed Mountain and Fatal Frame IV; two Wii games that shares a lot in common with Silent Hill.
I can't speak for her, but I'm guessing that at this point, Colette and people like her love Silent Hill too much to risk it getting screwed up. So far, "serious", previously established 3D party franchises on the Wii haven't been all that they could be.
My guess is that if this Silent Hill "re-imagining" has minimum motion controls and looks like a high end GC or Xbox games, Silent Hill fans will approve. If it looks worse then Silent Hill 2, people will be pissed.
And this uhh, I don't know, could be cool, could be shit, I do think its odd to see this on the Wii.
I think this is a very good thing, if it's not fake. The original SH is ungodly hard to find at this point. I've never been into SH, but I want to start from the beginning and see if it helps me along.
They didn't say anything relevant would be behind the doors. Just that you could open them now. :P
I got the original black label game for about $20 last year.
It's not that hard to find if you look in the right place.
Amazon.com is your friend.
The original game is the best looking one. The more power the SH devs got aholed of, the less scary their games got. SH1 scared the piss out of me because everything was so indistinct; your imagination could really run away with itself and dream up things far more terrible and horrible than anything they could actually display graphically. Once they got PS2 hardware and just showed you shit, it wasn't even slightly frightening anymore. And SH3 and 4 just managed to look gross.
In my fantasy dream land, this game will have the -exact- same graphic engine as the original PS1 Silent Hill.
I'm really bothered by people who don't understand how powerful the Wii really is. It's more than twice as powerful as the Gamecube, and that shit was fan-fucking-tastic. If graphics never progressed past what the Gamecube could do, I'd have been a happy camper for all of eternity, because that shit was truly amazing.
Wii FUCK YEAH!
THEY'LL CHANGE THE STORY TO MAKE IT FIT IN WITH THE GOD-DAMN-AWFUL AMERICAN "SILENT HILL" MOVIE! Ahahahahahah!
Now that would be truly evil. And probable.