I want to emphasize that I am extremely grateful for this Silent Hill renaissance we’ve been having in the 2020s. Whether it be the new games, the SH2 remake, the general fact more eyes on this franchise makes me happy. But I can’t help but continue to think about what could have been with Silent Hills.
It is a tragedy that horror fans were robbed of what really should have been a slam dunk in every way. A new terrifying game that built off P.T. with Kojima at the helm, Norman Reedus as its main character, and being written by Guillermo Del Toro? It’s literally perfect.
I’m glad that these guys came together and made Death Stranding, which is a cool game in its own right, but it’s not Silent Hills. And I don’t think that feeling will ever go away.
I know that a game cancellation is usually a permanent nail in a project but if there was one and only one game that could be brought back from the dead, I’d want it to be Silent Hills.