Bloober Team and "prestigious Japanese studio" working on new Silent Hill

Last edited by Tafdolphin on Thu Jul 01, 2021 10:19 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Bloober are a weird strawberry floating team. Layers of Fear was an effective jump-scare factory, Observer was a legitimately good horror/thriller experience then everything else they've touched has been dogshit, culminating in the The Medium. This was an incredibly derivative game that, amongst other things, included paedophile apologism and the rationalisation of child abuse. Neither viewpoint is in any way acceptable but Bloober team managed to completely strawberry float the tone of that game so badly it left a sour taste in my mouth that persists even now considering how little it was highlighted in reviews.

The idea of them getting their hands on Silent Hill is...urgh god it's depressing.

I have enjoyed all their games. I found Blair Witch in particular to be effective, and it succeeded in making me feel lost and confused without ever getting frustrated, which is quite the achievement.

Literally the only thing I know about The Medium is that it asserts the only way to break the cycle of abuse is to kill the victim - which sure is a take.

Actually, that's not true, I think that was also the game that tried to use patenting gameplay mechanics as marketing material.

So yeah maybe it wasn't highlighted in reviews but that first fact I learned from three different sources and is pretty much all I know the game for :lol:

Holy gooseberry fool, I just looked into the Medium's story based on your comments, how the hell didn't that get more attention? :dread:

OrangeRKN wrote:Literally the only thing I know about The Medium is that it asserts the only way to break the cycle of abuse is to kill the victim - which sure is a take.

Yup. Its central theme is evil propagates evil and the way that's enacted is "evil people are all victims and so therefore the victims of their abuse will also turn out evil" with the specific example being that a victim of child abuse is the big bad of the game and the person who sexually abused her is given a soppy Holocaust backstory (the little girl he sexually abuses as an old man reminds him of the Jewish girl he failed to save in the Holocaust jesus christ) to absolve him.

It's...strawberry floated.

If you've got a spare 5 hours, this playthrough is especially great at highlighting just how badly they miss the mark:

Tomous wrote:Holy gooseberry fool, I just looked into the Medium's story based on your comments, how the hell didn't that get more attention?

It's mindblowing to me that no mainstream reviewer noticed. I mean it's not even subtext. It's literally the text.

EDIT: Rumours now that there are 2 SH games in development, one at Bloober and one with "a prominent Japanese developer"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/konami ... t-68524132

(Dusk Golem is a prominent, and decent, leaker of news like this)

Tafdolphin wrote:Rumours now that there are 2 SH games in development, one at Bloober and one with "a prominent Japanese developer"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/konami ... t-68524132

(Dusk Golem is a prominent, and decent, leaker of news like this)

Platinum Silent Hill at last :toot:

Why would they make 2 SH games at the same time?

There being 2 games in development was reported earlier this year too: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020 ... evelopment

One for Android and one for iOS.

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:I have enjoyed all their games. I found Blair Witch in particular to be effective, and it succeeded in making me feel lost and confused without ever getting frustrated, which is quite the achievement.

I was the opposite - got fed up quite quickly so away it went.
I liked Layers of Fear though. They’re blates doing a first person Silent Hill, yeah. It’ll be no PT.

Nah, Medium was essentially them focus-testing a fixed-camera third person horror game.

It was literally a copy of SH2 with shit-tier themes and boring puzzles but still.

What if the one developed by a Japanese dev turns out to be Kojima Productions?

This is fine. Silent Hill has been dead for like 15 years, Konami has lost all goodwill I held for them, and I know gooseberry fool all about Bloober other than what I read about The Medium today which doesn't paint a nice picture.

I'll be avoiding this like the plague.

Zilnad wrote:I'll be avoiding this like the plague.

Why?

Here is the Twitter thread I read on The Medium's story if anyone is interested:

twitter.com/bobvids/status/1356295962524835840

Photek wrote:
Zilnad wrote:I'll be avoiding this like the plague.

Why?

Same reasons Taf posted really. The Medium has completely besmirched the goodwill that Bloober were beginning to generate and the less said about Konami, the better.

The amount of hate this news has generated is unreal :lol:

no one at all is happy at the thought of Bloober working on Silent Hill, with good reason though.

I liked Observer, haven't played anything of there's since. I don't think I'll be changing that position any time soon based on what I've learned in here. :dread:

Part of the same article

Metal Gear Solid and Castlevania are also being worked on by various external studios, releases are years away

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/konami-and-bloober-team-announce-partnership-amid-silent-hill-links/

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Bloober Team and "prestigious Japanese studio" working on new Silent Hill

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