By Back in October 2022, Sony PlayStation announced the remake of video game classic “Silent Hill 2” being in the works – a team-up of franchise owners Konami with “Layers of Fear” developer Bloober Team.
That announcement was accompanied by a spooky, haunting trailer recreating key moments from the atmospheric game and receiving plenty of praise.
More recently however, a second ‘combat reveal’ trailer emerged about a fortnight ago as part of Sony’s State of Play – this one tonally almost polar opposite of the slow burn game and showing off a montage of its hero blasting monsters with shotguns all set to rock music.
The reception to that trailer wasn’t great, including a YouTube page with only 54% likes. It’s enough that the president of Bloober Team has had to come forward to say the new trailer is not an accurate representation of the game.
Speaking with Polish investor news channel Inwestorzy.tv and transcribed by Eurogamer Poland (via VGC), Bloober Team president Piotr Babieno says:
“We are not responsible for the marketing side. That is entirely the responsibility of our partner. Certainly this trailer does not reflect the spirit of the game.
It is not the spirit of either what it used to be or what we are creating now. We are trying to fully reflect this romantic vision about the game, which debuted 22 years ago.
We think that when players see the real gameplay, the real game, they will judge it in a completely different way.”
The game still doesn’t have a release date at this point. It comes after the franchise launched the free mini-game “Silent Hill: The Short Message” on January 31st to very mixed reviews (52/100 on Metacritic) but a strong player count with over two million downloads of the game after two weeks.
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